A new video released today by the Center for Freedom and Prosperity Foundation (CF&P) discusses how anti-money laundering laws, which require banks to snoop on their customers, are costly and ineffective.
Entitled “Making Banks Spy on Their Customers is Not Effective Crime Fighting: The Failure of Anti-Money Laundering Laws,” the mini-documentary explains that these laws impose [...]
Once again, Dan Mitchell, for the Cato Institute has done an excellent job of exposing the failures of the 1st “stimulus” plan and the threat of another. Great job Dan and thanks for sending it on to us.
By now, Americans are beginning to get the news about how unreliable or shall I say made up, the statistics are regarding the “stimulus jobs” really are. My post yesterday, “Even Obama’s Make-Believe Jobs Are Not Real,” gratus, Dan Mitchell of the Cato Institute and The Washington Examiner, which provided an interactive map pointing [...]
Now that the Cap and Trade battle is heating-up we find, once again, that American’s are being deprived of the facts behind the alleged science of global warming. Our friends at the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) are all over this latest scandal as they were regarding the EPA’s cover-up of their findings that the [...]
by Nat Hentoff
Added to cato.org on August 20, 2009
This article appeared in RealClearPolitics.com on August 20, 2009.
I was not intimidated during J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI hunt for reporters like me who criticized him. I railed against the Bush-Cheney war on the Bill of Rights without blinking. But now I am finally scared of [...]
If you are still confused as to what needs to be done to reform health care and to promote an efficient free-market system here is a link to some great resources provided by the Cato Institute. This is a pivotal issue for our time and every citizen must be equipped with the facts. [...]
It is important to understand the constitutionality of what happened in Honduras with the removal of President Manuel Zelaya, their Constitutional process, how the law was upheld, and how the Obama administration is advocating a policy in direct conflict with the ‘rule-of-law.’ Juan Carlos Hidalgo, the project coordinator for Latin American, at the Cato [...]
The Cato Institute and it’s scholars, Michael D. Tanner and Michael F. Cannon dissect the president’s health care plan point by point in the following video. Please take the time to watch this short video which moves back and fourth between what President Obama said in the ABC New special on health care reform [...]
Posted by Chris Edwards on Cato@Liberty
The House has passed a measure imposing a special punitive tax of 90% on certain employee compensation in response to the AIG scandal. As others have noted, this raises serious constitutional issues. Article I, Section 9, Clause 3 says simply and directly: “No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto [...]
