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"Where Is Barack Obama Now That We Need Him?"
by David Boaz
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by John Samples
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by David Boaz
New Regulation Looks at Consumer Protection, Federal Control of Regulation, and Obesity
In the most recent issue of Regulation magazine, Cato scholar Timothy Sandefur argues that certificate of necessity (CON) laws are arbitrary, discriminatory, and economically foolish. Also in this issue, Jonathan H. Adler looks at recent measures to reassert legislative control and enhance congressional accountability for regulatory policy, and Michael L. Marlow and Alden F. Shiers look at government goals for reducing obesity.
Out of Afghanistan?
President Obama on Wednesday announced that he will recall the 30,000-plus "surge" troops from Afghanistan by the end of 2012 — 5,000 to 10,000 of them by the end of this year. While this may be a good start, says Cato scholar Christopher Preble, we need to remember that this withdrawal will still leave twice as many American soldiers in Afghanistan than were there when Obama took office in 2009. A far bigger withdrawal is in order.
- "President Obama's Afghan Decision: Previewing the Speech," by Christopher Preble
- "Afghanistan: Do We Stay or Do We Go Now?" by Malou Innocent
- "Dominoes on the Durand Line? Overcoming Strategic Myths in Afghanistan and Pakistan," by Joshua Rovner and Austin Long
- "Escaping the 'Graveyard of Empires': A Strategy to Exit Afghanistan," by Malou Innocent and Ted Galen Carpenter
The Subprime Lending Debacle: Competitive Private Markets Are the Solution, Not the Problem
The responsibility for the massive failures of the government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, at the center of American housing finance and the private securitization system that supports housing finance, falls directly on regulators and indirectly on their political overseers. In a new study, authors Kevin Villani and Patric H. Hendershott look at the United States' unique market-government hybrid mortgage system, and conclude that the system and the political risks it is subject to are unnecessary.
- "The Subprime Lending Debacle: Competitive Private Markets Are the Solution, Not the Problem," by Kevin Villani and Patric H. Hendershott
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