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A Deal in Europe. Sort Of.
European leaders on Friday agreed to a deal to to try to resolve the continent's debt crisis, though Britain and three other countries refused to support the agreement. The broad plan includes changes to promote more fiscal discipline, a strengthening of the current European bailout fund, and additional support for Italian and Spanish bonds to ensure that those two countries are not driven into default. Cato scholar Johan Norberg has long argued for long-term debt reduction plans and reforms to get back to growth: "Hope is fighting a losing battle against arithmetic," says Norberg. "Sooner or later Europe has to stop throwing bad euros after good euros."
- "Hurtling over a Fiscal Cliff," by Doug Bandow
- "European Endgame," by Johan Norberg
- "European Central Bank Research Shows that Government Spending Undermines Economic Performance," by Daniel J. Mitchell
- "Putting Politics above Markets: Historical Background to the Greek Debt Crisis," by Takis Michas
The Fair Credit Reporting Act at 40 and Lessons for the Internet Privacy Debate
More than 40 years ago, Congress passed the Fair Credit Reporting Act, which sought to improve the operations of the credit reporting industry. The lesson of the past four decades is that information regulation—in the name of credit reporting fairness, privacy, or whatever goal—is complex and value-laden. In a new paper, Cato scholar Jim Harper argues, "When it comes to contemporary issues like online privacy, lovers of the Internet and of freedom should recognize that combining the two—the Internet and freedom—is the best way to reconcile competing values. Top-down, centralized control of the information economy and society is not the better way forward."
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