Drudge Retort (Free subscription) | 08/13/2008
Indur M. Goklany and Jerry Taylor, Cato Institute: Although it's true that the real (inflation-adjusted) and nominal (posted) prices of gasoline are higher than at any time since World War II, even at the recent peak national average of $4.11 a gallon (California's average Friday was $4.17), gasoline is still more affordable today than it was during the Kennedy administration.
Climate Progress (Free subscription) | 08/13/2008
No, hell hasn’t frozen over — indeed, thanks to global warming, eventually nothing will freeze over, but I digress. Cato’s online magazine, Cato Unbound, is actually running a series/debate on what to do about global warming — okay, maybe hell is experiencing a little ice age for one month, just like the rest of the [...]
Grizzly Groundswell (Free subscription) | yesterday
But according to Cato Institute senior fellow Jerry Taylor, it’s also not a realistic option either. Taylor brings to light in his article titled “Energy independence won’t help us,” that much of the reasoning behind ‘energy independence’ really doesn’t hold water. Both for oil, or alternatives like biofuels. And after reading through his musings, he does [...]
sarbanes-oxley world (Free subscription) | yesterday
The goal of the 2002 Sarbanes-Oxley Act was to make corporate accounting more transparent. In practice, a new Cato Institute study finds, the law's requirements have had the opposite effect. Sarbanes-Oxley sought to achieve its aims by having the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) mandate that corporations use Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) in reporting their balance sheets...
Cafe Hayek (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
My favorite public speaker is Tom Palmer, of the Cato Institute. Listen to this speech of Tom's and you'll know why.
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
Even CEOs can't read statements compliant with the law WASHINGTON, Aug. 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The goal of the 2002 Sarbanes-Oxley Act was to make corporate accounting more transparent. In practice, a new Cato Institute study finds, the law's requirements have had the opposite effect. Sarbanes-Oxley sought to achieve its aims by having the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) mandate...
Teknosis (Free subscription) | yesterday
"This duplicitous film is the elite's response to Paul's resounding truth-telling - "Truth is treason in the empire of lies." http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/022373.html August 16, 2008 Dissent on I.O.U.S.A.Posted by Lew Rockwell at August 16, 2008 02:46 PM Writes Charles Burris: "On...
Digital Money Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
It seems to . These opinions are my own (I think) and presented solely in my capacity as an interested member of the general public [posted with ecto] costs, future, money
Firedoglake (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
A senior aide to Dick Cheney has been shortlisted for a senior regulatory post at the Department of Energy. The Washington Post reported today that anti-regulation crusader F. Chase Hutto is poised to ascend to the post of assistant secretary for policy and internatioal affairs at the Department of Energy.
The Two Malcontents (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
By PETER FERRARA Barack Obama’s tax plan is the opposite of supply-side economics. He proposes to raise marginal rates for just about every federal tax. He also proposes a raft of tax credits that taxpayers can receive if they engage in various government-specified activities. Moreover, the tax credits would mostly go to those who [...]
Cafe Hayek (Free subscription) | 08/15/2008
Here's the eloquent, wise, and learned Johan Norberg -- speaking recently at the Cato Institute -- explaining some of the benefits of open markets. (Norberg's excellent blog is here.) By the way, Norberg's book, In Defense of Global Capitalism, is...
Reason Magazine - Hit & Run (Free subscription) | 08/16/2008 | Politics
Does the Constitution allow jury nullification? Thomas R. Eddlem certainly thinks so. As the Cato Institute's Tim Lynch details in a superb post , Eddlem was booted off a jury for daring to question federal drug laws: The jury sent a note to the trial judge with the following query: Since the Constitution needed to be amended in 1919 to authorize federal criminal prosecutions for manufacturing and...
Atlantic Review (Free subscription) | 08/14/2008
The United States has done so much for Germany in the 20th century. I thought we had to be eternally grateful. Nope, not anymore. Germany has saved Americans from themselves. Now we are even. Yeah! ;-) Read what Justin Logan , the associate director of foreign policy studies at the Cato Institute, has to say: Recall that President Bush made a full-court press to get Georgia (and Ukraine) onto Membership...
The LRC Blog (Free subscription) | 08/16/2008
Writes Charles Burris: "On August 21 there will be a national premier of the film, I.O.U.S.A., in 400 theaters across the nation. The film purports to be an entertaining analysis of the serious financial situation facing America regarding its National...
Media Blog (Free subscription) | 08/15/2008
Michael Lind, writing in Salon, is worth reading today. His thesis creeps me out on Liberal Fascism grounds but also has the feel of truth about it: E... . . .
