CATO was making much hay a few days ago about budget problems in California, New York, and New Jersey, which can be explained, respectively, by the Governor’s veto of an…

…to what were considered dangerous democratic and even socialistic impulses. It is worth noting the Cato the Censor, after whom the Cato Institute is named, was the sworn enemy of…

Via Mark Thoma comes a debate between David Frum and Bruce Bartlett as to the prospects of achieving fiscal responsibility through cuts in government spending. The short answer is that…

Brooke Oberwetter’s critique of Wexler’s Social Security proposal wants us to believe that we can somehow avoid tax increases. But then there is this: He has proposed the largest marginal…

…sold at major retailers today, such as legendary Half of Fame MLB pitcher Nolan Ryan’s private label beef that is carried exclusively at Kroger stores, or at his private label…

This post might be seen as a 3-part math workout with the warmup being the news that the Club for Rich People (aka Growth) has their own Social Security webpage….

…priority of the corporations and right-wing funders backing the education privatization movement. The late Andrew Coulson, long-time head of the Cato Institute’s Center for Educational Freedom, was the driving force…

…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…

…would help ensure the solvency of Social Security in the future. That’s not a good idea. As the Cato Institute’s Andrew Biggs argued in the Financial Times in April, 2002,…

by Mike Kimel American Enterprise Institute Economists Redux The other day I wrote a post about economists at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), a prominent conservative think-tank. The post began…