By John Samples
Maybe not. I have just published an essay at the Liberty Fund’s Liberty Forum on the fall and rise of Congress since 1960.
The essay takes off from James Burnham’s book …
Is Congress Doomed? is a post from Cato @ Liberty – Cato Institute Blog
By Alan Reynolds
The politically convenient media fascination with incomes of the top 1 percent has degenerated into a new obsession with the top one-tenth of one percent – the top 0.1 percent. As before, …
Why Top Incomes Rose: Elasticity Not Corporate Executive Pay is a post from Cato @ Liberty – Cato Institute Blog
By Roger Pilon
Demonstrating once again that it’s nothing if not the voice of the capital’s establishment, the Washington Post this morning opened its Sunday “Outlook” section with yet another major piece by …
Getting Serious about Fixing Washington is a post from Cato @ Liberty – Cato Institute Blog
By Daniel J. Mitchell
I was at the United Nations yesterday for something called “The High Level Thematic Debate on the State of the World Economy.”
Most speakers, including the secretary general of the United …
Daniel in the Looter’s Den: My Adventures at the UN is a post from Cato @ Liberty – Cato Institute Blog
By David Boaz
Tonight at 6:00 pm ET, Brian Doherty will discuss his new book Ron Paul’s Revolution: The Man and the Movement He Inspired, with comments by Sen. Rand Paul, in Cato’s Hayek Auditorium. You can, as always, watch it live at www.cato.org/live. But if you prefer the old-fashioned, 20th-century technology of television, it appears that C-SPAN [...]
Live Tonight at 6: Brian Doherty and Rand Paul is a post from Cato @ Liberty – Cato Institute Blog
By Michael F. Cannon
Richard Thaler writes in the New York Times: Justice Scalia is arguing that if the court lets Congress create a mandate to buy health insurance, nothing could stop Congress from passing laws requiring everyone to buy broccoli and to join a gym…Can anyone imagine Congress passing a broccoli mandate law, much less the court allowing it to take [...]
Stop Using Slippery-Slope Arguments? Where Would that End? is a post from Cato @ Liberty – Cato Institute Blog
By Michael F. Cannon
Investment giant J.P. Morgan made a bad trade that cost its owners $2 billion. The responsible parties are losing their jobs. Yahoo’s CEO evidently misled people about his qualifications. As a result, he lost his job. If you want to know why these are market successes, consider: Medicare and Medicaid lose at least 35 times [...]
J.P. Morgan and Yahoo: Market Successes is a post from Cato @ Liberty – Cato Institute Blog
By David Boaz
Today is the 113th anniversary of the birth of F. A. Hayek, perhaps the most subtle social thinker of the 20th century. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1974. He met with President Reagan at the White House, and Margaret Thatcher banged The Constitution of Liberty on the table at Conservative headquarters and declared [...]
Happy Birthday, F. A. Hayek is a post from Cato @ Liberty – Cato Institute Blog
By Christopher Preble
I guess it’s not a huge surprise that a writer at The Daily Kos would characterize Cato as “Republican-supporting” when it suits a purpose. Just for their future reference, here is a laundry list of positions taken by Cato scholars that most Republicans (Beltway Republicans, at least) tend to abhor: Cutting military spending The Iraq [...]
Hey Daily Kos, Cato Is Not A ‘Republican-supporting’ Institution is a post from Cato @ Liberty – Cato Institute Blog
By Roger Pilon
In today’s Washington Post, the paper’s Dana Milbank treats us to “A faith-based lesson for Paul Ryan.” He takes Ryan to task for his Georgetown University speech last Thursday defending the House Republican budget. Earlier, it seems, Ryan had told the Christian Broadcasting Network that his budget was crafted “using my Catholic faith” as inspiration. [...]
Paul Ryan and His Catholic Critics is a post from Cato @ Liberty – Cato Institute Blog
