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Big business’s support for the Obama administration’s health care reform is driven by “naked self-interest.” — Dixit Cato’s Michael Cannon.

Michael F. Cannon is the Cato Institute’s director of health policy studies.

U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Employers for a Healthy Economy coalition has released a new anti-health care reform ad:

Facts about the health care bill:

Government-Run Health Care Will Cost Much More than the Politicians Are Telling You.

Health Care Reform Prediction Markets

Via Cato
Embedded video from CNN Video
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Great visual (and conference) from the Cato Institute

Cato Handbook for Policymakers

Cato Handbook for Policymakers
Washington Post:
A soup-to-nuts agenda to reduce spending, kill programs, terminate whole agencies and dramatically restrict the power of the federal government.
Excellent.
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What InTrade CEO John Delaney told the CFTC about “event markets” (prediction markets)

John Delaney (CEO of InTrade) – (InTrade PDF file – CFTC PDF file):
July 4th 2008
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Three Lafayette Centre
1155 21st Street NW
Washington, DC 20581
U.S.A.
Attention: Office of the Secretariat
RE: “Concept Release on the Appropriate Regulatory Treatment of Event Contracts”
To Whom it May Concern:
It is an honour for me as Chief Executive Officer of Intrade [...]

Midas Oracle keeps a list of 600+ external web links, and each of them is now automatically embedded into its text anchor.

Here’s our list of links.
Here’s the WordPress plugin I’m testing: Cross-Linker by Jan Hvizdak
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Now, let’s test it. I’m writing a list of people and organizations, and the plugin will automatically embed a link into each text anchor:

Robin Hanson
InTrade
InTrade Forum
Inkling Markets
Inkling Markets Blog
Inkling Markets Forum
Justin Wolfers
Michael Giberson
Slate
Koleman Strumpf
Prediction Market Industry Association
Midas Oracle .ORG
Marginal Revolution
Cato Institute
Chicago Mercantile [...]

US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales’s tenure is more scandalous even than the mess he created by firing eight federal prosecutors.

Cato Institute


Slate.com:
Congress could and should impeach Alberto Gonzales.

Why Prohibitions on Internet Gambling Won’t Work.

Op-Ed published by the Cato Institute – January 23, 2004
by Koleman Strumpf
(Emphasis added by editor – Republished on Midas Oracle)
With the steady rise of commercial activity on the Internet, Washington has been steadily moving toward a formal prohibition of online gambling. Recently, a series of bills sponsored by Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ) and Rep. James [...]

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