Secolul 21 ~ 21st Century » Cato Institute – Op-eds http://secolul21.net agregator de ştiri, analize şi comentarii ~ news and commentary aggregator Sat, 31 Jul 2010 22:05:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Let the Market Thrive, so the People Can, Too by James A. Dorn http://secolul21.net/2010/07/28/america-think-tanks/let-the-market-thrive-so-the-people-can-too-by-james-a-dorn/ http://secolul21.net/2010/07/28/america-think-tanks/let-the-market-thrive-so-the-people-can-too-by-james-a-dorn/#comments Thu, 29 Jul 2010 03:00:00 +0000 Cato Institute - Op-eds http://secolul21.net/2010/07/28/uncategorized/let-the-market-thrive-so-the-people-can-too-by-james-a-dorn/ After US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s announcement that new economic sanctions would be placed on North Korea, one headline read: “US tightens the screws on North Korea’s economy.” Yet, Pyongyang has already tightened the screws on its own economy. The chaos created by last year’s currency “reform” and by the crackdown on market activities is evident in food shortages, spiraling prices and discontent. Small traders…

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]]> http://secolul21.net/2010/07/28/america-think-tanks/let-the-market-thrive-so-the-people-can-too-by-james-a-dorn/feed/ 0 Few Batting Eyes at Obama’s Deadly Drone Policy by Nat Hentoff http://secolul21.net/2010/07/28/america-think-tanks/few-batting-eyes-at-obamas-deadly-drone-policy-by-nat-hentoff/ http://secolul21.net/2010/07/28/america-think-tanks/few-batting-eyes-at-obamas-deadly-drone-policy-by-nat-hentoff/#comments Thu, 29 Jul 2010 03:00:00 +0000 Cato Institute - Op-eds http://secolul21.net/2010/07/28/uncategorized/few-batting-eyes-at-obamas-deadly-drone-policy-by-nat-hentoff/ News of our pilotless killer drones hurling more Hellfire missiles abroad has largely vanished from our press, despite President Obama’s fixation on this questionable aspect of our war on terrorism. An impressive exception to the media inattention is investigative reporter Adam Entous of Reuters. He reports …

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]]> http://secolul21.net/2010/07/28/america-think-tanks/few-batting-eyes-at-obamas-deadly-drone-policy-by-nat-hentoff/feed/ 0 Why the Intelligence Community Needs GAO Oversight by Julian Sanchez http://secolul21.net/2010/07/28/america-think-tanks/why-the-intelligence-community-needs-gao-oversight-by-julian-sanchez/ http://secolul21.net/2010/07/28/america-think-tanks/why-the-intelligence-community-needs-gao-oversight-by-julian-sanchez/#comments Thu, 29 Jul 2010 03:00:00 +0000 Cato Institute - Op-eds http://secolul21.net/2010/07/28/uncategorized/why-the-intelligence-community-needs-gao-oversight-by-julian-sanchez/ Last week, The Washington Post unveiled a long investigative series on “Top Secret America”…

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]]> http://secolul21.net/2010/07/28/america-think-tanks/obamas-surveillance-power-grab-by-julian-sanchez-2/feed/ 0 Alan Blinder and Mark Zandi’s Keynesian Black Box by Alan Reynolds http://secolul21.net/2010/07/27/america-think-tanks/alan-blinder-and-mark-zandis-keynesian-black-box-by-alan-reynolds/ http://secolul21.net/2010/07/27/america-think-tanks/alan-blinder-and-mark-zandis-keynesian-black-box-by-alan-reynolds/#comments Wed, 28 Jul 2010 03:00:00 +0000 Cato Institute - Op-eds http://secolul21.net/2010/07/27/uncategorized/alan-blinder-and-mark-zandis-keynesian-black-box-by-alan-reynolds/ In a recent Wall Street Journal column, Princeton economist Alan Blinder wonders why 64 percent…

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]]> http://secolul21.net/2010/07/27/america-think-tanks/alan-blinder-and-mark-zandis-keynesian-black-box-by-alan-reynolds/feed/ 0 What’s Their Plan? by Michael D. Tanner http://secolul21.net/2010/07/27/america-think-tanks/whats-their-plan-by-michael-d-tanner/ http://secolul21.net/2010/07/27/america-think-tanks/whats-their-plan-by-michael-d-tanner/#comments Wed, 28 Jul 2010 03:00:00 +0000 Cato Institute - Op-eds http://secolul21.net/2010/07/27/uncategorized/whats-their-plan-by-michael-d-tanner/ Faced with a dismal political climate, Democrats appear ready to revive the hoary charge that Republicans seek to dismantle Social Security. But what’s the Dems’ answer? Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has run TV ads attacking his opponent, Sharron Angle, for wanting “to wipe the program out.” In Kentucky, Republican senatorial candidate Rand Paul is being criticized for …

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]]> http://secolul21.net/2010/07/27/america-think-tanks/what-happens-if-u-s-troops-leave-afghanistan-not-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it-by-leon-t-hadar-2/feed/ 0 School District a Tax-Wasting Machine by Adam B. Schaeffer http://secolul21.net/2010/07/27/america-think-tanks/school-district-a-tax-wasting-machine-by-adam-b-schaeffer/ http://secolul21.net/2010/07/27/america-think-tanks/school-district-a-tax-wasting-machine-by-adam-b-schaeffer/#comments Wed, 28 Jul 2010 03:00:00 +0000 Cato Institute - Op-eds http://secolul21.net/2010/07/27/uncategorized/school-district-a-tax-wasting-machine-by-adam-b-schaeffer/ The price tag for the Los Angeles Unified School District’s Robert F. Kennedy schools complex on the site of the famed Ambassador Hotel has ballooned from $309 million to $578 million. A disastrous district payroll and management system has led to costly lawsuits, underpayments, overpayments of $60 million…

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]]> http://secolul21.net/2010/07/27/america-think-tanks/school-district-a-tax-wasting-machine-by-adam-b-schaeffer/feed/ 0 Our Big-Government War on Terror by Gene Healy http://secolul21.net/2010/07/26/america-think-tanks/our-big-government-war-on-terror-by-gene-healy/ http://secolul21.net/2010/07/26/america-think-tanks/our-big-government-war-on-terror-by-gene-healy/#comments Tue, 27 Jul 2010 03:00:00 +0000 Cato Institute - Op-eds http://secolul21.net/2010/07/26/uncategorized/our-big-government-war-on-terror-by-gene-healy/ Guess what happens when you combine a crisis atmosphere with a gusher of federal funds? You get a dangerous, wealth-gobbling bureaucracy that fails to achieve its ostensible goal, whether that’s better health care, ending drug abuse — or uncovering terrorist threats. That’s the …

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]]> http://secolul21.net/2010/07/26/america-think-tanks/speaking-hypothetically-what-to-do-when-a-pmc-tortures-by-david-isenberg/feed/ 0 Only High-Tax Adherents Are Surprised by Richard W. Rahn http://secolul21.net/2010/07/26/america-think-tanks/only-high-tax-adherents-are-surprised-by-richard-w-rahn/ http://secolul21.net/2010/07/26/america-think-tanks/only-high-tax-adherents-are-surprised-by-richard-w-rahn/#comments Tue, 27 Jul 2010 03:00:00 +0000 Cato Institute - Op-eds http://secolul21.net/2010/07/26/uncategorized/only-high-tax-adherents-are-surprised-by-richard-w-rahn/ Do you think more government spending helps economic growth or harms it? On Friday, the White House again increased its federal budget deficit forecast and reduced its economic growth forecast for 2011. It is abundantly clear that the economic program the administration and Democratic Congress instituted 18 months ago — primarily massive…

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]]> http://secolul21.net/2010/07/26/america-think-tanks/only-high-tax-adherents-are-surprised-by-richard-w-rahn/feed/ 0 A Liberal God? by Doug Bandow http://secolul21.net/2010/07/25/america-think-tanks/a-liberal-god-by-doug-bandow/ http://secolul21.net/2010/07/25/america-think-tanks/a-liberal-god-by-doug-bandow/#comments Mon, 26 Jul 2010 03:00:00 +0000 Cato Institute - Op-eds http://secolul21.net/2010/07/25/uncategorized/a-liberal-god-by-doug-bandow/ Nothing seems to scare the populist Left more than the people. Protest the Obama administration’s big spending, pervasive centralizing, expansive regulating policies, and you must be an enemy of all that is good and true. Attend a Tea Party rally and you’re probably a racist and certainly not a Christian. At least that is the view…

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]]> http://secolul21.net/2010/07/25/america-think-tanks/a-liberal-god-by-doug-bandow/feed/ 0 Raising Retirement Age Won’t Work by William Shipman http://secolul21.net/2010/07/25/america-think-tanks/raising-retirement-age-wont-work-by-william-shipman/ http://secolul21.net/2010/07/25/america-think-tanks/raising-retirement-age-wont-work-by-william-shipman/#comments Mon, 26 Jul 2010 03:00:00 +0000 Cato Institute - Op-eds http://secolul21.net/2010/07/25/uncategorized/raising-retirement-age-wont-work-by-william-shipman/ The co-chairmen of President Obama’s debt and deficit commission, Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson, recently warned that our country’s current fiscal path — primarily the cost of entitlements — unless reversed, “will destroy the country from within.” Given such an ominous prophecy, it is almost certain that Social Security, the country’s largest entitlement, …

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]]> http://secolul21.net/2010/07/25/america-think-tanks/raising-retirement-age-wont-work-by-william-shipman/feed/ 0 Raising Retirement Age Won’t Work by William Shipman http://secolul21.net/2010/07/25/america-think-tanks/raising-retirement-age-wont-work-by-william-shipman/ http://secolul21.net/2010/07/25/america-think-tanks/raising-retirement-age-wont-work-by-william-shipman/#comments Mon, 26 Jul 2010 03:00:00 +0000 Cato Institute - Op-eds http://secolul21.net/2010/07/25/uncategorized/raising-retirement-age-wont-work-by-william-shipman/ The co-chairmen of President Obama’s debt and deficit commission, Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson, recently warned that our country’s current fiscal path — primarily the cost of entitlements — unless reversed, “will destroy the country from within.” Given such an ominous prophecy, it is almost certain that Social Security, the…

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]]> http://secolul21.net/2010/07/25/america-think-tanks/raising-retirement-age-wont-work-by-william-shipman/feed/ 0 Early Returns on ObamaCare Are Disappointing by Michael D. Tanner http://secolul21.net/2010/07/24/america-think-tanks/early-returns-on-obamacare-are-disappointing-by-michael-d-tanner/ http://secolul21.net/2010/07/24/america-think-tanks/early-returns-on-obamacare-are-disappointing-by-michael-d-tanner/#comments Sun, 25 Jul 2010 03:00:00 +0000 Cato Institute - Op-eds http://secolul21.net/2010/07/24/uncategorized/early-returns-on-obamacare-are-disappointing-by-michael-d-tanner/ Obamacare was conceived around three goals: (…

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]]> http://secolul21.net/2010/07/24/america-think-tanks/early-returns-on-obamacare-are-disappointing-by-michael-d-tanner/feed/ 0 Money Dominates by Steve H. Hanke http://secolul21.net/2010/07/22/america-think-tanks/money-dominates-by-steve-h-hanke/ http://secolul21.net/2010/07/22/america-think-tanks/money-dominates-by-steve-h-hanke/#comments Fri, 23 Jul 2010 03:00:00 +0000 Cato Institute - Op-eds http://secolul21.net/2010/07/22/uncategorized/money-dominates-by-steve-h-hanke/ Financial panics are usually followed by sharp economic snap backs. The post-Panic of 2008 has failed to follow this typical “V-shaped” economic recovery…

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