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When it means leaving 50,000 troops in Iraq to train and fight.
Reports the Washington Post:
President Obama has invited members of Congress to the White House for a meeting later this afternoon to discuss his plans for drawing down troops in Iraq — a plan that has already drawn stiff criticism from his Democratic allies.
After Speaker […]
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Expanding on his February 9th White Paper, “Paul Krugman’s Nostalgianomics: Economic Policies, Social Norms, and Income Inequality“, Cato Vice President for Research Brink Lindsey discusses the problems with the 2008 Nobel laureate’s analysis of income inequality in today’s Cato Daily Podcast.
[Krugman] has a clear ideological incentive to portray the ‘50’s and ‘60’s as this […]
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The Washington Post is reporting that the Obama administration is planning to charge Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri with providing material support to Al Qaeda. Al-Marri is an alleged sleeper agent for Al Qaeda, and the FBI intercepted him while he was an exchange student in Illinois. Prior to his trial, the Bush administration moved him […]
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As my colleague Dan Mitchell has noted, Harvard is about to hold a conference about how the “free market ideology has dominated legal discourse and lawmaking the last few decades.” That’s a dubious narrative (to say the least (pdf)).
In any event, Harvard alums who read this blog should know that Cato adjunct scholar Harvey Silverglate is running for a position on […]
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I haven’t seen any media attention paid to it yet, and I don’t recall the president mentioning it in his speech Tuesday night. Regardless, p.37 of today’s budget blueprint calls for “Making Saving for Retirement Easier as the Economy Recovers.” Although it sounds innocuous, I believe the contents could be cause for alarm:
“Over the long-term […]
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Appearing on HITN’s “Destination Casablanca,” Cato analyst Juan Carlos Hidalgo discusses Latin American policy, Cuba and the future of the drug war under the Obama administration.
“It’s not Washington’s business to try to impose or suggest an agenda for Latin American countries,” Hidalgo says.
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Nice health care lecture
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