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Opposing 'Stimulus' -- Hundreds of Economists Sign on to Cato Institute Ad (video)

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http://www.cato.org/fiscalrealityThere is plenty of disagreement on whether a big-government stimulus project is the best way to bring the United States out ...

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Opposing ‘Stimulus’ Video
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Stimulating Video (by Don Boudreaux)
Cafe Hayek — A stimulating three-plus minute-long video from Cato.

Week In Review: Massive Spending, Nat Hentoff, Salary Caps and the Mexican Drug War
Cato @ Liberty — Deal Reached on Massive Spending Bill The Washington Post reports, “A day after settling on the details of a nearly $790 billion economic stimulus package, congressional leaders moved to hold final votes on the plan tomorrow in hopes of sending it to President Obama to sign into law by his Presidents’ Day deadline.” The House and Senate say they have agreed on a bill that will cost taxpayers $790 billion. But numbers can be deceiving, says Chris Edwards, Cato’s director of tax policy studies: A huge threat from the $800 billion stimulus plan in front of Congress this week is that much of the ...

Week in Review: Stimulus, Sarah Palin and a Political Conflict in Honduras
Cato @ Liberty — Obama Considering another Round of Stimulus With unemployment continuing to climb and the economy struggling along, some lawmakers and pundits are raising the possibility of a second stimulus package at some point in the future. The Cato Institute was strongly opposed to the $787 billion package passed earlier this year, and would oppose additional stimulus packages on the same grounds. “Once government expands beyond the level of providing core public goods such as the rule of law, there tends to be an inverse relationship between the size of government and economic growth,” argues Cato scholar Daniel J. Mitchell. “Doing ...