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May 24, 2012

The Potential for Private Money

Although the Federal Reserve currently has a de facto monopoly on the provision of currency in the United States, this was not always the case. Throughout most of U.S. history, private banks issued their own banknotes as currency. In a new paper, Thomas L. Hogan examines ways this practice could be reinstituted in the United States with minimal changes to the banking system.

New Cato Site Tracks Police Misconduct

No one disputes the idea that police misconduct is wrong, but reasonable people do disagree about the scope of the problem and how it ought to be addressed. In an effort to track allegations of police misconduct so policymakers can make informed assessments of its nature and circumstances, the Cato Institute has launched the National Police Misconduct Reporting Project at PoliceMisconduct.net. Our objective is to identify policies that consistently uphold high standards of ethics, honesty, and professionalism from police officers and critique the policies that do not.

A Case for Defunding Public Broadcasting

Government-funded media companies are inherently problematic and impossible to reconcile with either the First Amendment or a government of constitutionally limited powers. In a new paper, Cato scholar Trevor Burrus argues that public broadcasting has run its course as a publicly funded entity. "Public broadcasting does not need to go away, it needs to be transformed back into the noncommercial model that thrived before widespread government funding."


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