Tag: Cato Institute

How Much Economic Freedom do You Have?

Cato Institute, along with the Fraser Institute, has published the latest report on the Economic Freedom of the World. Since peaking at 2nd place...

Milton Friedman: “War is a Friend of the State”

Originally posted December 16, 2014. The Cato Institute’s Chris Preble, vice president for defense and foreign policy studies, is the author of The Power Problem:...

ObamaCare Awefulness

When it comes to Obamacare and low enrollment numbers, no amount of cajoling, bribery, or punishment can make people buy a lousy product, writes...

“Our Core Second Amendment Rights”: Part I

Originally posted August 8, 2013. Over four decades ago, I met Cato Institute Chairman Bob Levy. Bob and I were both associated with a New...

Average Federal Compensation: $120,000

Your federal tax dollars help  support the third highest average (far from it!) paying jobs. Cato’s director of tax policy studies Chris Edwards explains: New...

Eric O’Keefe on Wisconsin’s Raids

Becky and I had a chance to visit with political activist Eric O’Keefe after lunch a few years ago at the Cato 200 gathering...

Cut the Army and Marines?

In “Budgetary Savings from Military Restraint,” Cato Institute scholars Benjamin H. Friedman and Christopher Preble offer an initial harvest of restraint cuts. The authors...

Stop Policing the World

The 2016 presidential election offers Americans a chance to get back on the right track regarding how America works with other countries. The Cato Institute’s...

Defenseless in America Part II

There is a better way to make America safer, more prosperous and freer. More here from the Cato Institute policy analysis, Budgetary Savings from Military Restraint...

National Defense Panel (NDP) War Hawks

Niskanen Center’s Matt Fay unmasks the National Defense Panel (NDP).  Matt explains that while the NDP “has a veneer of bipartisanship, it is stacked...

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