Research

On April 28th, George Soros visited the Cato Institute to be a part of a Book Forum panel on the works of Nobel Prize-winning Austrian Economist, Friedrich August von Hayek. Soros attended the London School of Economics during the early 1950s, when both Hayek and Soros’ mentor, Karl Popper, were teaching at the college. Surprisingly, Soros made several remarks during his speech at Cato that significantly misrepresented Hayek and his economic theories. (more)

‘World News Tonight’ spells gloom and doom for the world if climate change isn’t tamed (more)

The show is called “Left, Right & Center,” although a more appropriate title would probably be “Far Left, Right, Progressive & Democrat” with its current cast of Robert Scheer, Tony Blankley, Arianna Huffington and Matt Miller. But despite the title of the program, don’t use those partisan labels around Huffington. (more)

Top conservatives try to figure out how much Obama’s debt reduction plan will raise taxes (more)

The study discusses how the government has become more centralized and what politicians credited with the shift in power from the states to the federal government  (more)

One of the heated debates taking place in Washington D.C. is whether the federal government should give states $10 billion to save teacher jobs as part of an additional stimulus package, resulting in a delay of the passage of the war-time supplemental spending bill- the bill teacher spending is attached to (more)

The US national debt situation is one of the world’s worst, with the national debt projected to reach 62 percent of the economy (more)

The budget deficit in 2010 is expected to set a record at $1.471 trillion – or 10 percent of GDP. In 2011, the administration projects the deficit will again top $1.4 trillion. From 2010 to 2020, the Obama budget plan would run up a cumulative deficit of nearly $10 trillion (more)

In an interview with ABC News on Sunday, David Axelrod, the president’s chief political advisor, touted patent reform as a potential spur to innovation and job creation. But it’s not clear that the patent backed by the White House nearly enough to tackle our out-of-control patent system. There’s a patent war going on in the cell phone industry, and virtually all of the major manufacturers are involved (more)

Globalization holds tremendous promise to improve human welfare but can also cause conflicts and crises as witnessed during 2007–09. How will competition for resources, employment, and growth shape economic policies among developed nations as they attempt to maintain productivity growth, social protections, and extensive political and cultural freedoms? (more)

This booklet provides a snapshot of Americans’ economic freedom and compares conditions in the U.S. with those in other countries, in hopes of ensuing a bold reform (more)

Last December, China refused to sign on to the non-binding Copenhagen greenhouse gas reduction goals and in March 2010 was only willing to agree to reduce its “carbon intensity.” Were China a leader in green energy investment and employment, one would expect its government to exploit this competitive advantage by championing a global climate accord. (more)

Now, there has come along a fellow who thinks air conditioning is a bane rather than a boon and hankers for the offices of the 1940s (more)

Wall Street’s banditry was the proximate cause of the Great Recession, not its underlying cause. Even if the Street is better controlled in the future (and I have my doubts), the structural reason for the Great Recession still haunts America. That reason is America’s surging inequality. (more)

The problems with the NEW START program is outlined  (more)

Currently, taxpayers aged 18 years or older who are not dependents or full-time students may receive a nonrefundable Saver’s Credit equal to between 10 and 50 percent of their compensation up to $2,000 contributed to an employer-sponsored qualified retirement plan or IRA. Qualified contributions are reduced by distributions from qualified plans and IRAs during the current tax year, up to the due date of the return, including extensions (more)

Good and bad ideas for the feds about how to handle to deep sea drilling is explained. Lieberman focuses on those most effected, Louisiana fisherman and residents, ideas and how they have been reacting to the spill and how the government should help them.  (more)