By Michael F. Cannon
Remote Area Medical‘s Stan Brock, who spoke at the Cato Institute’s 2012 State Health Policy Summit, explains: The culprit is state medical licensing laws. For more, read Cato adjunct scholar Shirley Svorny. CNN Video: How Government Blocks Health Care Access for the Poor is a post from Cato @ Liberty – Cato Institute Blog
CNN Video: How Government Blocks Health Care Access for the Poor is a post from Cato @ Liberty – Cato Institute Blog
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By Chris Edwards
The lead article in the new Cato Policy Report is entitled “We Can Cut Government: Canada Did.” The article reviews Canada’s economic reforms since the 1980s, which have included free trade, privatization, spending cuts, sound money, large corporate tax cuts, personal tax reforms, balanced federal budgets, block grants, and decentralizing power by cutting the central [...]
Canada’s Economic Reforms is a post from Cato @ Liberty – Cato Institute Blog
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By Daniel J. Mitchell
I sometimes wonder whether journalists have the slightest idea of how capitalism works. In recent weeks, we’ve seen breathless reporting on the $2 billion loss at JP Morgan Chase, and now there’s a big kerfuffle about the falling value of Facebook stock. In response to these supposed scandals, there are all sorts of articles being [...]
In the Lake Wobegon Fantasy World, All Investments Make Money is a post from Cato @ Liberty – Cato Institute Blog
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By Ilya Shapiro
The collusion between big business and big government that fleeces the rest of us has struck again — Tim Carney, iMessage your office – this time in the sports world. Minnesota governor Mark Dayton recently signed the midnight deal that state lawmakers struck with the owners of the state’s football team, the Minnesota Vikings, to build the team [...]
Public Financing of Vikings Stadium a Bad Deal for Fans, Taxpayers is a post from Cato @ Liberty – Cato Institute Blog
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By Walter Olson
To be fair about it, New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof has written some pretty good stuff about the Drug War and other topics. But when he’s having a weak day, he’s weaker than watered beer, or so I conclude in a new Reason piece about his latest crusade. Last week Kristof urged readers to [...]
‘Lawsuit Contentions, Like Beer Itself, Can Be Dangerous When Over-Quaffed by the Naive’ is a post from Cato @ Liberty – Cato Institute Blog
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By Ilya Shapiro
While perhaps more identified with eating than drinking, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie — who headlined Cato’s recent Milton Friedman Prize Dinner — signed a law in January that allowed out-of-state winemakers to sell directly to in-state consumers and retailers. This wasn’t a spontaneous bit of New Year’s bonhomie — the U.S. Court of Appeals [...]
Chris Christie Allows New Jerseyans to Quaff Better Wine is a post from Cato @ Liberty – Cato Institute Blog
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By David Boaz
Some politicians say that banks need more regulation because JPMorgan Chase lost $2 billion, about 2 percent of its annual revenue. Meanwhile, the federal government will have a deficit of about $1.3 trillion this year, more than half its annual revenue (and about a third of its annual spending). Is there some sort of regulation [...]
Adult Supervision is a post from Cato @ Liberty – Cato Institute Blog
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By Walter Olson
As Tad has noted, Thumbtack.com in cooperation with the excellent Kauffman Foundation of Kansas City has produced this attractive, clickable map of the 50 states displaying the results of a survey of small-business friendliness. It’s worth checking out your state’s standing, as well as that of states with which it competes for new business. To a [...]
Survey: Which States Are Small-Business-Friendly? is a post from Cato @ Liberty – Cato Institute Blog
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By Trevor Burrus
Today, the Institute for Justice released a 200-page, comprehensive study on occupational licensing in the United States. The report details the plague of occupational licensing that has swept the country over the past 60+ years. According to the study, “In the 1950s, only one in 20 U.S. workers needed the government’s permission to pursue their [...]
The Institute for Justice Exposes the Plague of Occupational Licensing is a post from Cato @ Liberty – Cato Institute Blog
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By Walter Olson
Farm families, along with the cause of liberty, won an important battle last week when the Obama administration scrapped plans to prohibit kids from doing a wide range of jobs in agriculture, even on farms belonging to their own family members. The rules would have barred youngsters under 16 from working with animals, storage bins, [...]
Obama Labor Department Won’t Ban Kids’ Farm Chores is a post from Cato @ Liberty – Cato Institute Blog
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