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CATO Institute and Ayn Rand

Via alternet comes this bit of news: …John Allison, a former bank CEO and a leader of the Rand movement, has just become president of the Cato Institute, the oldest…

Social Security: Cato’s “Quick Facts”

The Cato Institute has provided us with more propaganda entitled the “Quick Facts Archive”: 1. Social Security will begin running a deficit by 2017. 2. A medium income worker born…

Social Security: Jane Bryant Quinn v. Cato

…The second piece of Cato dishonesty forms its attack on Robert Shiller’s paper. Cato is pretending that households would wish to take on more risk for extra return, which is…