Adjunctitude
Freespace (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
The Cato Institute has named me an "adjunct scholar." I guess this means I have to grow up.
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Casino Capitalism (by Don Boudreaux)
Cafe Hayek (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Cato Institute's Gerry O'Driscoll wisely warns against bailing out Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Here are some choice paragraphs: Absent from [Treasury Secretary Henry] Paulson's plan is any protection for taxpayers. They'll fund the downside if losses mount at...
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Baltimore Third World?
Random Rodricks (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
In a recent Wall Street Journal piece, Stephen Walters, a Loyola College economics professor, and Steve Hanke, a Hopkins professor and senior fellow at the Cato Institute, said Baltimore deserves the Third-World profile it got from the HBO series, the Wire, and they blame high taxes and wasteful spending. The mayor’s office says facts were distorted to unfairly depict Baltimore as a...
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What's Sauce For the Private Goose...
Patently-O: Patent Law Blog (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Ilya Shapiro is a Senior Fellow at the libertarian Cato Institute in DC. He was also my classmate in both college and law school. In a recent op-ed for the Legal Times, Shapiro supported BPMC’s contention that the state of...
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OK, So We Made a Mistake
From On High (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
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We do not just talk about liberty
Samizdata.net (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
Did you know DC v Heller was a Libertarian plot? The case that became D.C. v. Heller was the brainchild of three lawyers at a pair of libertarian organizations, the Cato Institute and the Institute for Justice. All were busy with other matters, so they hired Mr. Gura. "Alan was willing to work for subsistence wages," Cato's Robert Levy tells me, "in return for which he got...
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Wal-Mart: No Effect on Small Businesses Activity
Seeker Blog (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
Mark Perry on the Cato Institute study “Has Wal-Mart Buried Mom and Pop?” [PDF] Myth: Mega discount store Wal-Mart is a plague set upon small “mom-and-pop” businesses. The instant Wal-Mart moves into town, all small businesses are destroyed in its path, leaving downtowns barren and empty. According to Robert Reich, Wal-Mart turns “main streets into ghost [...]
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Line Forms to the Rear
InsureBlog (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
Need primary care? Good luck. Especially if you are in Massachusetts where you are required to have health insurance . Since the law was passed, requiring residents to have health insurance, a little over half of the previously uninsured have gained coverage. But at what price? As the Cato institute reported, the state tax budget for health insurance subsidies overshot the mark by 33...
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Marty Kaplan: Beyond Sicko
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
... thing left me looking nervously over my shoulder for political-correctness enforcers from The Cato Institute or The Heritage Foundation. As one speaker after another pointed out, America today ranks first among industrial nations in terms of how much we spend on health care, but last in terms of how healthy we are as a country. Pick any national metric of healthiness -- life expectancy,...
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Shockingly Doctrinal
The Daily Dish (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
... right-wing think-tanks with which [Milton] Friedman had long associations--Heritage Foundation, Cato Institute and the American Enterprise Institute--called itself "neoconservative," a worldview that has harnessed the full force of the U.S. military machine in the service of a corporate agenda. Where to begin? First, neoconservative ideology dates not from the 1990s but from...
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Non-Information Security Podcasts That I Listen to…
PurpleSlog (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
... - Covert Radio - National Security Current Events - The Glenn And Helen Show - From Instapundit - Cato Institute Event Podcast - Chivalry Today - Nobility of action and everyday life …and the music ones… - The Acapodcast - Bach Podcast from Magnatune.com - Jazzarific: Jazz Vinyl Podcasts I do also listen to Information Security-ish podcasts .
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"Deputizing Company Counsel as Agents of the Federal Government"
PointOfLaw Forum (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
In an update for the Cato Institute of a 2005 article (overview leads to PDF-format article), Washington attorney N. Richard Janis looks at the arsenal of methods, many relatively recent, by which federal prosecutors can arm-twist business defendants into submission....
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Cavalcade of Risk #56 now online
InsureBlog (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
Cato Institute's Michael Cannon hosts his 2nd Cav , and does a great job. Take a risk and check it out. I f you'd like to host a Cavalcade, and you really should, just drop us a line . It's fun and easy, and a nice traffic bump.
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Argentina abandons disputed export tax
Houston Chronicle (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
... said Juan Carlos Hidalgo, project coordinator for Latin America at Washington-based Cato Institute. "But now we're seeing a more pragmatic and conciliatory approach."Cabinet Minister Alberto Fernandez told a news conference that the government will abide by Thursday's Senate vote rejecting the tax package. The Senate vote itself was not enough to cancel the tax hike because it was...
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Cavalcade of Risk and a news roundup
Workers Comp Insider (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
Michael Cannon is hosting Cavalcade of Risk this week and he's posted a diverse collection of risk-related links at The Cato Institute blog - good end of week reading. Insurance reform - Is insurance due for a regulatory overhaul? The move to an Optional Federal Charter appears to be gathering steam. To help you stay informed on the topic of...
