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Policy Briefs

Title: Fixing Mortgage Finance: What to Do with the Federal Housing Administration?
Authors: Mark A. Calabria
Date: February 2012

Title: Publication Practices for Transparent Government
Authors: Jim Harper
Date: September 2011

Title: Herbert Hoover: Father of the New Deal
Authors: Steven Horwitz
Date: September 2011

Title: Fannie, Freddie, and the Subprime Mortgage Market
Authors: Mark A. Calabria
Date: March 2011

Title: Short Sales Bans: Shooting the Messenger?
Authors: Laurence Copeland
Date: September 2010

Title: The Case for Auditing the Fed Is Obvious
Authors: Arnold Kling
Date: April 2010

Title: Scientific Misconduct: The Manipulation of Evidence for Political Advocacy in Health Care and Climate Policy
Authors: George Avery
Date: February 2010

Title: The Citizens' Guide to Transportation Reauthorization
Authors: Randal O'Toole
Date: December 2009

Title: ObamaCare: A Bad Deal for Young Adults
Authors: Aaron Yelowitz
Date: November 2009

Title: High-Speed Rail Is Not "Interstate 2.0"
Authors: Randal O'Toole
Date: September 2009

Title: All the President's Mandates: Compulsory Health Insurance Is a Government Takeover
Authors: Michael F. Cannon
Date: September 2009

Title: Massachusetts Miracle or Massachusetts Miserable: What the Failure of the "Massachusetts Model" Tells Us about Health Care Reform
Authors: Michael Tanner
Date: June 2009

Title: Does the Doctor Need a Boss?
Authors: Arnold Kling, Michael F. Cannon
Date: January 2009

Title: How Did We Get into This Financial Mess?
Authors: Lawrence H. White
Date: November 2008

Title: Greenspan's Monetary Policy in Retrospect
Authors: David R. Henderson, Jeffrey Hummel
Date: November 2008

Title: Rails Won't Save America
Authors: Randal O'Toole
Date: October 2008

Title: Does Barack Obama Support Socialized Medicine?
Authors: Michael F. Cannon
Date: October 2008

Title: Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae: An Exit Strategy for the Taxpayer
Authors: Arnold Kling
Date: September 2008

Title: FASB: Making Financial Statements Mysterious
Authors: T.J. Rodgers
Date: August 2008

Title: A Fork in the Road: Obama, McCain, and Health Care
Authors: Michael D. Tanner
Date: July 2008

Title: The Klein Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Polemics
Authors: Johan Norberg
Date: May 2008

Title: Asset Bubbles and Their Consequences
Authors: Gerald P. O'Driscoll Jr.
Date: May 2008

Title: WHO's Fooling Who? The World Health Organization's Problematic Ranking of Health Care Systems
Authors: Glen Whitman
Date: February 2008

Title: Is the Gold Standard Still the Gold Standard among Monetary Systems?
Authors: Lawrence White
Date: February 2008

Title: What Can the United States Learn from the Nordic Model?
Authors: Daniel Mitchell
Date: November 2007

Title: Do You Know the Way to L.A.? San Jose Shows How to Turn an Urban Area into Los Angeles in Three Stressful Decades
Authors: Randal O'Tool
Date: October 2007

Title: Taiwan's Defense Budget: How Taipei's Free Riding Risks War
Authors: Ted Carpenter, Justin Logan
Date: September 2007

Title: The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies
Authors: Bryan Caplan
Date: May 2007

Title: In Pursuit of Happiness Research: Is It Reliable? What Does It Imply for Policy?
Authors: Will Wilkinson
Date: April 2007

Title: Energy Alarmism: The Myths That Make Americans Worry about Oil
Authors: Daryl Press
Date: April 2007

Title: Escaping the Trap: Why the United States Must Leave Iraq
Authors: Ted Galen Carpenter
Date: February 2007

Title: Why We Fight: How Public Schools Cause Social Conflict
Authors: Neal McCluskey
Date: January 2007

Title: Has U.S. Income Inequality Really Increased?
Authors: Alan Reynolds
Date: January 2007

Title: The Cato Education Market Index
Authors: Andrew J. Coulson
Date: December 2006

Title: The Bottom Line on Iran: The Costs and Benefits of Preventive War versus Deterrence
Authors: Justin Logan
Date: December 2006

Title: Effective Counterterrorism and the Limited Role of Predictive Data Mining
Authors: Jim Harper, Jeff Jonas
Date: December 2006

Title: Cato Education Market Index Full Technical Report
Authors: Andrew J. Coulson
Date: December 2006

Title: Foreign Aid and the Weakening of
Authors: Andrew Mwenda
Date: July 2006

Title: Mexico Is Becoming the Next Colombia
Authors: Ted Galen Carpenter
Date: November 2005

Title: Time to Stop Fooling Ourselves about Foreign Aid: A Practitioner's View
Authors: Thomas Dichter
Date: September 2005

Title: Underdevelopment in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Role of the Private Sector and Political Elites
Authors: Moeletsi Mbeki
Date: April 2005

Title: How the Drug War in Afghanistan Undermines America’s War on Terror
Authors: Ted Galen Carpenter
Date: November 2004

Title: The Dominican Republic: Resolving the Banking Crisis and Restoring Growth
Authors: Steve H. Hanke
Date: July 2004

Title: President Bush’s Muddled Policy on Taiwan
Authors: Ted Galen Carpenter
Date: March 2004

Title: The New Approach to Foreign Aid: Is the Enthusiasm Warranted?
Authors: Ian Vásquez
Date: September 2003

Title: Reauthorize or Retire the Overseas Private Investment Corporation?
Authors: Ian Vásquez, John Welborn
Date: September 2003

Title: Monetary Options for Postwar Iraq
Authors: Steve H. Hanke, Matt Sekerke
Date: September 2003

Title: At a Crossroads in Afghanistan: Should the United States Be Engaged in Nation Building?
Authors: Subodh Atal
Date: September 2003

Title: Wrong War, Wrong Place, Wrong Time: Why Military Action Should Not Be Used to Resolve the North Korean Nuclear Crisis
Authors: Doug Bandow
Date: May 2003

Title: Missile Defense: Defending America or Building Empire?
Authors: Charles V. Pena
Date: May 2003

Title: The IMF's Dubious Proposal for a Universal Bankruptcy Law for Sovereign Debtors
Authors: Anna J. Schwartz
Date: March 2003

Title: The China-Taiwan Military Balance: Implications for the United States
Authors: Ivan Eland
Date: February 2003

Title: Are Our Troops Ready for Biological and Chemical Attacks?
Authors: Eric R. Taylor
Date: February 2003

Title: The Globalization of Human Well-Being
Authors: Indur Goklany
Date: August 2002

Title: Sustainable Development A Dubious Solution in Search of a Problem
Authors: Jerry Taylor
Date: August 2002

Title: Building Leverage in the Long War: Ensuring Intelligence Community Creativity in the Fight against Terrorism
Authors: James W. Harris
Date: May 2002

Title: Responding to the Threat of Smallpox Bioterrorism: An Ounce of Prevention Is Best Approach
Authors: Charles V. Peña, Veronique de Rugy
Date: April 2002

Title: Fighting the War against Terrorism: Elite Forces, Yes; Conscripts, No
Authors: Doug Bandow
Date: April 2002

Title: Should the United States "Weaponize" Space?
Authors: Edward Hudgins, Charles V. Peña
Date: March 2002

Title: Old Folly in a New Disguise
Authors: Gary T. Dempsey
Date: March 2002

Title: Befriending Saudi Princes - A High Price for a Dubious Alliance
Authors: Doug Bandow
Date: March 2002

Title: The Anti-Terrorism Coalition: Don't Pay an Excessive Price
Authors: Charles V. Peña
Date: December 2001

Title: Going Too Far: Bush's Pledge to Defend Taiwan
Authors: Ted Galen Carpenter
Date: May 2001

Title: The Rogue State Doctrine and National Missile Defense
Authors: Ivan with Daniel Lee Eland
Date: March 2001

Title: Making the World Safer for Incumbents: The Consequences of McCain-Feingold-Cochran
Authors: John Samples
Date: March 2001

Title: Instability in the Philippines: A Case Study for U.S. Disengagement
Authors: Doug Bandow
Date: March 2001

Title: Toward Market Education: Are Vouchers or Tax Credits the Better Path?
Authors: Andrew J. Coulson
Date: February 2001

Title: Fiscal Policy Report Card on America's Governors: 2000
Authors: Stephen Moore, Stephen Slivinski
Date: February 2001

Title: "Big Oil" at the Public Trough? An Examination of Petroleum Subsidies
Authors: Ronald J. Sutherland
Date: February 2001

Title: Reclaiming Our Schools: Increasing Parental Control of Education through the Universal Education Credit
Authors: Matthew J. Brouillette, Darcy Ann Olsen
Date: December 2000

Title: Are We Prepared for Terrorism Using Weapons of Mass Destruction? Government's Half Measures
Authors: Eric R. Taylor
Date: December 2000

Title: Microsoft's Appealing Case
Authors: Robert A. Levy, Alan Reynolds
Date: November 2000

Title: A Policy toward Cuba That Serves U.S. Interests
Authors: Philip Peters
Date: November 2000

Title: "Edupreneurs": A Survey of For-Profit Education
Authors: Carrie Lips
Date: November 2000

Title: The Great Game, Round 2: Washington's Misguided Support for the Baku-Ceyhan Oil Pipeline
Authors: Stanley Kober
Date: October 2000

Title: More Than Grades: How Choice Boosts Parental Involvement and Benefits Children
Authors: Philip Vassallo
Date: October 2000

Title: Arrogance of Power Reborn: The Imperial Presidency and Foreign Policy in the Clinton Years
Authors: Gene Healy
Date: October 2000

Title: A Foreign Policy Report Card on the Clinton-Gore Administration
Authors: Jonathan G. Clarke
Date: October 2000

Title: India as a World Power: Changing Washington's Myopic Policy
Authors: Victor M. Gobarev
Date: September 2000

Title: From the Sea: National Missile Defense Is Neither Cheap Nor Easy
Authors: Charles V. Pena
Date: September 2000

Title: Constitutional Problems with Enforcing the Biological Weapons Convention
Authors: Ronald D. Rotunda
Date: September 2000

Title: Constitutional Problems with Enforcing the Biological Weapons Convention
Authors: Ronald D. Rotunda
Date: September 2000

Title: Korean Détente: A Threat to Washington's Anachronistic Military Presence?
Authors: Doug Bandow
Date: August 2000

Title: Arms Control and Missile Defense: Not Mutually Exclusive
Authors: Charles V. Pena
Date: July 2000

Title: WTO Report Card III: Globalization and Developing Countries
Authors: Aaron Lukas
Date: June 2000

Title: Let's Make National Missile Defense Truly "National"
Authors: Ivan Eland
Date: June 2000

Title: From the Sea: National Missile Defense Is Neither Cheap Nor Easy
Authors: Charles V. Peña
Date: June 2000

Title: Dubious Anniversary: Kosovo One Year Later
Authors: Christopher Layne, Benjamin Schwarz
Date: June 2000

Title: The Greening of the World Bank: A Lesson in Bureaucratic Survival
Authors: James M. Sheehan
Date: April 2000

Title: Green Wars: Making Environmental Degradation a National Security Issue Puts Peace and Security at Risk
Authors: Paul Benjamin
Date: April 2000

Title: China's Long March to a Market Economy
Authors: Mark A. Groombridge
Date: April 2000

Title: "Isolationism" as the Denial of Intervention: What Foreign Policy Is and Isn't
Authors: Earl C. Ravenal
Date: April 2000

Title: A Dollarization Blueprint for Argentina
Authors: Steve H. Hanke, Kurt Schuler
Date: March 1999

Title: Ballistic Missile Proliferation: Does the Clinton Administration Understand the Threat?
Authors: Timothy M. Beard, Ivan Eland
Date: February 1999

Title: Does U.S. Intervention Overseas Breed Terrorism?: The Historical Record
Authors: Ivan Eland
Date: December 1998

Title: The Case for a Russian Currency Board System
Authors: Steve H. Hanke
Date: October 1998

Title: Time to Terminate the ESF and the IMF
Authors: Anna J. Schwartz
Date: August 1998

Title: Subtract Unneeded Nuclear Submarines from the Fleet
Authors: Ivan Eland
Date: April 1998

Title: Private Education Emerges in China
Authors: Ma Lei
Date: April 1998

Title: Nato Expansion Flashpoint No. 3: Kaliningrad
Authors: Stanley Kober
Date: February 1998

Title: Greenspan, Wriston Highlight Monetary Conference
Authors: Cato Institute
Date: February 1998

Title: Costs, Risks of NATO Expansion Underestimated: Concealed-Carry Gun Laws Reduce Crime
Authors: Cato Institute
Date: February 1998