VDARE.com: Blog Articles (Free subscription) | 06/17/2008
... commentary, while of Cato will be “moderating” on behalf of Cato. So with the , Barone, and Daniel Griswold all on the same stage, don’t expect a spirited debate.However, any of our readers who are in the Washington area might want to attend and ask a polite, but pointed, question or two.
Red State (Free subscription) | 06/07/2008
With the sudden jump in unemployment to 5.5% (still relatively mild but certainly noticeably more than the previous 5% figure), fears will naturally increase that the United States is, or will soon be in a recession. And the more such fears increase, the greater the propensity--as Daniel Griswold points out--for public officials to blame free trade for our economic woes. Problem is that...
National Review Online (Free subscription) | 05/19/2008
... an early version of the prescription-drug program, and the Patriot Act. As the Cato Institute’s Daniel Griswold has pointed out, he voted with protectionists to secure the interests of cotton farmers and the textile industry in his district. The old Barr was a scourge of illegal drugs. He was a member of the Speaker’s Task Force for a Drug-Free America and authored the Barr amendment,...
The Audacious Epigone (Free subscription) | 05/16/2008
... of '06) for US farmers . So the industry would see its profits reduced by less than 10%. As CATO's Daniel Griswold points out, the industry receives nearly four times the amount of that profit loss each year in the form of government subsidies : During the past twenty years, farm programs have cost America's non-farm households a cumulative $1.7 trillion. That is how much non-farm...
