At WarontheRocks.com, Cato Institute vice president for defense and foreign policy studies, Chris Preble writes that “Any nation with vast power will be tempted to use it.” But perhaps after years of foreign adventurism with little to show for it, Americans are becoming warier of new interventions in foreign conflicts. Unfortunately, as Chris reports, Washington […]
The Low-Hanging Fruit for Trump
The low-hanging fruit for President-elect Donald Trump is spending cuts. My friend Chris Edwards, director of tax policy studies at Cato Institute, gives his advice here: So let me suggest some wasteful spending that the new administration should tackle, and the annual savings from terminating each: K-12 school subsidies, which generate bureaucracy and stifle innovation […]
One More Devastating Ruling Against the Foul Dodd-Frank Bill
The Cato Institute’s Thaya Brook Knight has ripped the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau apart for it’s attempts to regulate payday lending. If the “power to tax involves the power to destroy,” the power to regulate must carry the same destructive force. Since these heavy underwriting rules would apply only to loans made at a certain interest […]
Should the Colossal Dodd-Frank Law be Repealed this Minute?
Viewers watching yesterday’s Congressional hearings featuring Janet Yellen were met with fireworks as Congressman Sean Duffy excoriated the Federal Reserve Chairwoman for failing to end too big to fail. Duffy’s implication was that, despite the massive costs and burdens the Dodd-Frank legislation mandating the end of “too big to fail,” America is still burdened by […]
The U.S.—Tumbling to #16 in Worldwide Economic Freedom?
That’s right. We are seeing a broad long-term trend that is leaving us both less free and poorer as a nation, writes Cato’s Michael Tanner. As recently as 2009, we were still in the top ten. Now we are tucked between Lithuania and Malta. The top four positions are held by traditional free-market economies Hong […]
The Cato Institute’s Dan Mitchell Delivers a Dire Warning!
Here the Cato Institute’s Dan Mitchell delivers a dire warning. Politicians want to upend the rules of global commerce to undermine and restrict tax competition. They realize that the long-run fiscal outlook of their countries is grim, but rather than fix the bad policies they’ve imposed, they want a system that will enable higher ever-higher tax […]
Foreign Policy in America’s Interest: Realism, Nationalism, and the Next President.
From The American Conservative: Election 2016 has raised big questions about America’s role in the world. Donald Trump promises to pursue an unapologetic nationalism, yet he may be selective about military engagements. Hillary Clinton has the resume to be a foreign-policy president, yet she appears willing to launch foreign interventions in a way that is […]
Cato Institute: The 5 Least Free States in America
The scholars at Cato Institute run down the five least-free states in America. These states mostly score poorly on economic freedom and in the middle on personal freedom.
Americans Worry, Wonder What Happened to Gov Social Services
My friend Chris Edwards from Cato Institute has written at Downsizinggovernment.org that “Only one-third of people think that the government gives competent service, and the public’s “customer satisfaction” with federal services is lower than for virtually all private services.” It’s not surprising that Americans have lost faith in government as it always seems they’re paying […]
Can You Guess the Least Free State in America?
Over at the Cato Institute, William Ruger and Jason Sorens have compiled the 2016 ranking of Freedom in the 50 States. This is the fourth bi-annual edition of the rankings. Can you guess how your state fared? Take a look at the map below to find out. And if you guessed New York was the […]
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