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India’s New Protectionism Threatens Gains from Economic Reform
Published: 18/10/2018Swaminathan S. Anklesaria Aiyar Indian prime minister Narendra Modi has been hailed as an economic liberalizer, having sharply criticized rising U.S. protectionism under the Trump administration. Yet ... Read moreSource: www.cato.org -
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Donald Trump, 60 Minutes, and Global Warming
Published: 16/10/2018Earlier this week, Leslie Stahl and 60 Minutes got into the subject of global warming with President Trump. Her question, “Do you still think climate change is a hoax” followed background on recent ... Read moreSource: www.cato.org -
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Fiscal Policy Report Card on America’s Governors 2018
Published: 9/10/2018Chris Edwards The U.S. economy is in its 10th year of economic expansion, and state government budgets are benefiting from a solid growth in tax revenues. State general fund revenues have grown 40 per ... Read moreSource: www.cato.org
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Bipartisanship Means Spending Taxpayers' Money
Published: 6/10/2018Everybody’s deploring partisan polarization these days, especially this presidential term, especially this week. Including the Cato Institute’s president, Peter Goettler : “two years in Washington has ... Read moreSource: www.cato.org -
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Parental Leave: Is There a Case for Federal Action?
Published: 5/10/2018Featuring Vanessa Brown Calder , Policy Analyst, Cato Institute; Emily Ekins , Director of Polling, Cato Institute; Veronique de Rugy , Senior Research Fellow, Mercatus Center at George Mason Universi ... Read moreSource: www.cato.org -
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Stalin’s Propaganda and Putin’s Information Wars
Published: 5/10/2018Featuring Stephen Kotkin , John P. Birkelund ‘52 Professor in History and International Affairs, Princeton University, and Author, Stalin: Waiting for Hitler and Uncivil Society: 1989 and the Implosio ... Read moreSource: www.cato.org
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Wealthy Taxpayers Are Fleeing These States in Droves
Published: 3/10/2018Chris Edwards Both parties can be faulted on tax policy. The Republicans are inconsistent; they support large tax cuts but don’t match them with spending cuts, as we saw with the 2017 Tax Cuts and Job ... Read moreSource: www.downsizinggovernment.org -
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Parental Leave: Is There a Case for Government Action?
Published: 2/10/2018Vanessa Brown Calder Paid parental leave provides workers with financial compensation during temporary absences following the birth or adoption of a child. Private companies often provide paid leave a ... Read moreSource: www.cato.org -
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The Jones Act: Charting a New Course after a Century of Failure
Published: 29/09/2018Hayek Auditorium, Cato Institute For nearly 100 years the Jones Act has restricted the transportation of cargo between domestic ports to ships that are U.S.-built, -crewed, -owned, and -flagged. Meant ... Read moreSource: www.cato.org
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The Fall in the Value of the Indonesian Rupiah -- DéjàVu 1998?
Published: 25/09/2018In 1998, thanks to President Bill Clinton and the IMF, the Indonesian rupiah collapsed, and inflation surged. I know every act in this play because I had a front row seat as then-President Suharto’s S ... Read moreSource: www.cato.org -
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Network Propaganda: Manipulation, Disinformation, and Radicalization in American Politics
Published: 22/09/2018Featuring the author Yochai Benkler , Berkman Professor of Entrepreneurial Legal Studies, Harvard Law School; with comments by Rebecca MacKinnon , Director, Ranking Digital Rights project, New America ... Read moreSource: www.cato.org -
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To Stabilize the World, Stabilize the USD/Euro Exchange Rate
Published: 21/09/2018In 1944, the Bretton Woods Agreement established a new global monetary system. Its hallmark was exchange-rate stability. That stability was accompanied by a general acceleration of growth in the post- ... Read moreSource: www.cato.org
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Cost and Abuse Problems in Low-Income Housing
Published: 20/09/2018Chris Edwards A new Government Accountability Office report on the Low Income Housing Tax Credit echoes some of the concerns expressed in this 2017 Cato report . Vanessa Brown Calder and I suggeste ... Read moreSource: www.downsizinggovernment.org -
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Affordable Housing: Hard Way and Easy Way
Published: 20/09/2018Chris Edwards A new GAO study examines the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit, which is a complex government program aimed at increasing the supply of affordable housing. How complex is it? Vanessa Brown ... Read moreSource: www.downsizinggovernment.org -
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Venezuela's Retrogressing Economy – Exhibit 1, PDVSA
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