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On the Extent of “Corporate-Welfare Subsidies”

Institute as “any government spending program that provides unique benefits or advantages to specific companies or industries.” as he linked to a Cato publication that identified less than $93 billion…

NRO Monetary Economics: Seven-Footers Are Always Tall

…other formerly socialist nations will continue to grow It seems that some folks at the American Enterprise Institute aren’t aware of the fact that the Chinese government is adopting market…

Cheney: 51 Lies is Not That Many

…course, come from politicians who actually voted in favor of authorizing force against Saddam Hussein,” Cheney told the Frontiers of Freedom Institute, a conservative policy group. For Cheney to suggest…

Index the Minimum Wage at $6.50

…a short summary of the arguments for and against increasing the real value of the minimum wage. The Economic Policy Institute has a nice issues guide, which has all sorts…

Congressional Oversight

…too powerful. …Norman J. Ornstein, a congressional expert at the American Enterprise Institute, has a harsher assessment. “This Congress doesn’t see itself as an independent branch that might include criticizing…

Luskin-Moore: Katrina Was Not That Bad

…to pull back,” said Grace-Marie Turner, a health policy analyst and president of the conservative Galen Institute. An extreme version of Option Six would be to have no Federal assistance…

Katrina Relief & Ricardian Equivalence

…Cato Institute’s excellent report “The Grand Old Spending Party,” which explains that “throughout the past 40 years, most presidents have cut or restrained lower-priority spending to make room for higher-priority…

A Security For Calculated Risk to Buy

…Robert Hartwig, chief economist at the Insurance Information Institute, says the MACRO securities may be the best — and only — way homeowners can protect the value of their homes….

Privatization Proponents Are Feeling Lonely

Even Blogs for Bush had been ignoring what we reported here. The Cato Institute and Le Club for Rich People have received limited notice from the rightwing blogs for their…