According to their own interpretation of events, the Bush and then Obama administrations rescued the entire U.S. auto industry from imminent disaster and total failure. But in fact, a potential collapse only threatened General Motors and Chrysler, whose years of bad decision-making had finally c...
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America’s criminal codes are now so voluminous that they bewilder not only the average citizen but also the average lawyer. Harvey Silverglate, in his new book, Three Felonies a Day, argues that the typical American professional is likely unaware that he or she violates federal law daily. He spo...
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Freedom is under assault, and has been for a while. The United States went through a lot in the past eight years — the excesses of the Patriot Act; the intrusion of the federal government into local schools; state decisions on marijuana, end-of-life choices, and state marriage law; the biggest e...
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Former Soviet dissident Vladimir Bukovsky believes the failure to morally condemn the crimes of communism has left KGB operatives in charge of the government. Bukovsky, a Cato Institute Senior Fellow, believes an open condemnation of communism will help the former Soviet Union make progress towa...
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Chris Edwards, director of Cato’s fiscal policy studies, discusses new GDP numbers alongside Mark Zandi, chief economist with Moody's Economy.com. Edwards asserts that private investment remains in decline even as GDP appears to be surging forward. Judy Woodruff moderates.
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David Boaz discusses libertarianism in the military, the White House’s tiff with Fox News, pay czar Kenneth Feinberg and other issues with Judge Andrew Napolitano.
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American health care kills. And it’s because markets for health care services are grossly distorted. That's the assessment of businessman David Goldhill, whose father died of a hospital acquired infection. Goldhill wrote up what he discovered subsequently in an article for the Atlantic Monthly e...
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On Fox 5 in Washington, D.C., Malou Innocent discusses the slow expansion of the Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan and the local and regional view of the U.S. occupation in Afghanistan.
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Cato Institute scholars have been out front on television and radio providing critical context for the current financial slide on Wall Street. Cato scholars have also been providing a much-needed counterpoint to the bailout bandwagon in Washington.
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