cato is lucky to have you, john.re any connection to this really positive increase in lending, particularly small and medium sized businesses and the fed tapering? >> david, i think there may be an indirect connection. i think the tapering is very good. in fact i wish the fed would creating money, which i think is what they're doing with these qe programs. i think that the connection would be that businesses may be developing a higher level of confidence that we're not going to have a debate. of the currency which makes it very hard tore businesses to predict future inflation and future prices. businesses are looking for price stability and they're not dumb. they grasp it when the fed is creating a lot of excess reserve in the banking system that could result in higher inflation in the future. it is kind of an indirect effect. the fact is that banks have been quite willing to lend but only to very high qualified borrowers because the federal reserve and the fdic and bank regulators have radically tightened bank lendi

cato pointed out 35 states, better off financially to take welfare than to go to work. >> yes. so what's the incentive to get americans -- americans don't feel like there is incentive to work. it's better. it's a better deal to sit at home and collect the check than look for a job. you make more money living off of the government. what kind of society is this and what kind of society are we showing the next generation, the younger generation. >> juan, we spent trillions upon trillions of dollars in assistance programs, and we know this, you and i talked about this quite a bit. poverty is at a 30-year high. the poverty rate a 30-year high in spite of all of the money we're spending. you're a smart guy. what does that tell you to do? >> wait a minute. are you forgetting we had a recession? the things have been tough around here? and you know i can't believe that you guys go on supposedly smart compassionate conservatives go on as if americans don't want to work. people want jobs. people would love to get off the couch and go to work. and i don't know where you're talking about th

daniel mitchell of the cato institute and ross isenbray. >>> stocks end the day mixed and little change. no major economic data to speak of today. no big earnings reports out. tensions between russia and ukraine seem to ease a bit on a ramp up of diplomatic efforts. the dow lost 11 points, the nasdaq gained 14, snapping a losing streak. the s&p 500 closed a fraction higher. >>> copper prices ended the day slightly higher, up one penny a pound that. brought an end to a sharp three-day slide and a 12% tumble in prices this year. that's reverberated through the commodity trading floors everywhere. bertha coombs tells us why the falling price for copper matters to all investors. >> reporter: the copper trade is all about china. the country's massive buildout over the last decade has driven global prices. but china's recent slow down has triggered investor concerns about the outlook for copper demand. concerns economist zach carable calls overblown. >> it's not as if the overall activity within china has gone from massive to minimal. it's that the pace has changed. >> reporter: but it's more

john: we have your chart from cato. top line spending second line staffing. >> it is not really investment it is more about political rhetoric, say you are spending money on something that sounds good. you know you are not getting results that you want and you are promising. john: the data shows, you say this, and yet, the president says this. >> we could keep harmful cuts to s to education programs or give more kids a head start. john: we could keep harmful cuts, have there been any cuts? >> if you get rid of the stimulus $100 billion for education. education. john: then a cutback a little bit. >> a little bit. but. massive, increaseing on a per people basis of spending. john: the washington post now gets it in almost every state, aim of money spend per pupil has more than doubleed in 40 years. >> problem is, that most people down realize that and most people because they are not wonks like me the they can't spd fore ever researching education policy, they hear it, they think that is good, and if i spend more then i wi

outspoken critic of the president's signature legislation, let's bring in michael tanner from the cato institute. what's on the top of mind after you heard what jay just had to say? >> well, i think we should really be skeptical of some of the numbers like the 6 million. we know that about 20% of those 6 million have not actually paid. they're a little bit like people who put something in the cart for amazon.com but never actually checked out. we don't know how many of them will pay in the end. and about 3% to 5% more paid their first payment and then stopped paying for their insurance, so you've got to cut them out. in addition to that we don't know how many were uninsured previously. there's estimates all over the place suggesting maybe as many as three-quarters of the people who sign up for the exchanges maybe as few as a quarter of them were people who had insurance, lost their insurance because it didn't satisfy the obamacare criteria and then were forced to sign up through the exchanges in order to get reinsured, so this is not necessarily people who are newly insured. it may be

dan mitchell senior fellow at the cato institute. >>> you work hour after hour on the job only for the government to take a big chunk for taxes. coming up, we'll talk to a man who has more to do about the taxes that you pay. grover nor quist. and the firsthand account of a woman's mother's homeland in ukraine. keep it here. >> president putin, mr. putin, >> you work hard to provide your family with food, clothes and a home. but americans spend more in taxes than they do on food, clothing and housing combined. averaging an estimated 29.4% of americans household budgets, and we're not just talking about federal income tax although that gets most of the ink. the tax system is a multi headed animal that lives in every state, county, and town in the country. and an animal whose appetite effects every from rich to poor. aside from income tax there is are payroll taxes, state taxes, property taxes and lots more taxes but individual income tax is the largest component of a tax bill. when it comes to the federal income tax the united states has progressive tax system where we've agreed as a soc

cato pointed out 35 states, better off financially to take welfare than to go to work. >> yes.entive to get americans -- americans don't feel like there is incentive to work. it's better. it's a better deal to sit at home and collect the check than look for a job. you make more money living off of the government. what kind of society is this and what kind of society are we showing the next generation, the younger generation. >> juan, we spent trillions upon trillions of dollars in assistance programs, and we know this, you and i talked about this quite a bit. poverty is at a 30-year high. the poverty rate a 30-year high in spite of all of the money we're spending. you're a smart guy. what does that tell you to do? >> wait a minute. are you forgetting we had a recession? the things have been tough around here? and you know i can't believe that you guys go on supposedly smart compassionate conservatives go on as if americans don't want to work. people want jobs. people would love to get off the couch and go to work. and i don't know where you're talking about that crazy number ab

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he is also senior fellow at cato institute. dr.sellgen research covers a broad range of topics within the field. including the history of monetary history and macroeconomic theory. he is the author of" the theory of free banking, money supply under competitive issue." he too written numerous articles that have appeared in academic journals. he is also coedtor of econ journal watch. i'll turn it over to george. >> first thing i need to do is to find my slides. keep pressing thank you all by the way for giving me a chance to talk about how the fed manages to give people the impression that it's been doing a wonderful job. larry referred to our joint work with my colleague how the fed has actually performed in its first hundred years. he summarized some of the results. in terms of price level stability, predictability, business cycle fluctuations, crisis and banking failures things have not been better since the fed's establishment than they were in the decades preceding the fed establishment. that fact is all the more important w

children's place and cato citing freezing temperatures.inting to margin pressure from the promotional holiday season as a drag on earnings. margin pressure beyond just the holiday season was a drag for elle brands. they're issuing a forecast going forward below consensus as a result. now, it's a different story at staples. the office supplier retailer didn't blame weather or promotions for its drop in sales and profit but rather the migration of customers online. staples said its online sales increased 10% in the fourth quarter. that means 50% of the total company sales are coming from onlean purchasing. children's place plans to close a total of 125 underperforms stores through 2016. staples closing 225 as a part of its cost-cutting program. add that to the 1100 closures of rad radioshack stores. we're looking at a lot ofhempt real estate here soon. >> that's true. thank you, courtney. you stay here and join the conversation. evan, you think this slowdown has a lot to do with weather, don't you? >> certainly does. we've had probably one

journal,xt washington the cato institute discusses the president's proposed plan and the nsa storage of telephone data. supreme court health care contraceptive mandate case. your phone calls, facebook,, and suites. washington journal is live each morning at 7:00 on c-span. the health care law says have to provide health coverage that provides all sorts of contraceptives. we will hear from one of those companies. anthony hahn. >> we believe americans do not lose their religious freedom when they open a family business. we were encouraged by today's argument. we are thankful the supreme court took our case and we prayerfully await the decision. thank you. >> since my family first opened in my dads garage 50 years ago, we sought to glorify god. by the principles that inspire our lives every day. we believe in hard work, good citizenship, and the dignity of our customers and our employees who are all created in gods image. we never thought we would see a day when the government would tell our family we could no longer run our business in a way that affirms the sanctity of human life and

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that figure comes from the cato institute which, obviously, has a slant on this. first of all, when you think about it in an industry that generates about $2.7 trillion if revenue, that's a pretty low rate of taxation. but i would argue that it is really more in the nature of an investment than a tax, and it is what makes the rest of the $2.7 trillion possible. but this view of the antagonists has particularly been pervasive in health care. if you look briefly historically, teddy roosevelt first raised the issue of a national universal coverage plan in 1912 in his third party candidacy. he did not succeed. a few years later some of the states picked up the call. that brochure, i know it's hard to read the details, but on the left from 1918 was the pushback that talked about labor's socialistic attempt to take over our health care system. sound familiar? almost 100 years later. in the 1940s, harry truman proposed a similar plan. that was called socialized medicine. if you can see the puppeteer with the marionette, his two contraptions are called socialized and medi

and gm is adding 800,000 cato a recall list due to faulty ignition switches. >>> due to mature subjectviewer discretion is advised. >>> at boston suffolk county jail, some inmates are better known to staff than others, mainly due to their many stays here. >> boston baby, beantown. bean town! >> sal guiliano, who is finishing up a year-long sentence for a probation violation, is here for the 12th time. it's a chance to catch up with buddies from his neighborhood. >> east boston baby, east boston. waitress. 2128, stay golden. [ bleep ] [ bleep ] how i grew up, just loyalty was a big thing. friendship was a big thing. don't find too many people who understand them words, friendship. friendship to me is, you know, i do for others, those that are my friends i would do before i do for myself. >> selfish. one coffee. there's six of us. you come in with one coffee. all right. i'll remember that. >> i didn't get canteened this week. >> i got your canteen. you hungry? you hungry? what you want? >> that's what happens -- >> all right, listen to me. >> it'll all be gone by tomorrow. >> we're going

carl davis says absolutely yes, but chris edwards from the cato institute says heck no.is, i want to start with you. you say raising the gas tax is not the answer. what is then? >> i think decentralization to state governments and the private sector is the answer to infrastructure. state governments can raise their gas taxes anytime they want to fund their own highways. there's nothing stopping them. we also need to look at privatization. so in northern virginia where i live, they just widened the capital beltway, a $2 billion project. it's been a huge success. the money was mainly private money. a private company raised the money, widened the interstate in northern virginia, and the project came in on time and under budget. so we ought to be looking at more privatization like that. the united states is behind most other countries. britain and canada, for example, have more private highways, private airports, and private air-traffic control. that's where we ought -- that's the direction we ought to be going, not relying on the federal government and washington where it's

charles: that was cato mcfarland earlier in the program.line. now we are hearing just a couple of your takes on the show. you do not have to be a serial typical evangelical to think that. i say bravo. comment on climate change. tim cook is an idiot. moron. double! we will headed over to cheryl and adam. cheryl: charles payne, a lot going on in the last hour. charles: absolutely. our viewers will need you guys to handle them. cheryl: we cannot blame you for this one. charles payne. thank you, charles. hi everyone, i am cheryl casone. adam: we start with breaking news on the tense situation in ukraine. a russian state news agency that russians fleet has warned to surrender by tomorrow or face military storm. they dispute that cla.

heading for a job at the cato institute. i can see. russian ngos are not allowed to operate. hadn't noticed that one. a front for british intelligence you know, this is to from a remember, there were hauled from their bed in the middle of the night to me that was an echo pretty unpleasant past. all aboard russian president. the want to say something, establish my credentials as someone. in the want to say something. i might say it's a pity the some of our center of overreacted someone. i would not go down this road. >> next question, provocative or otherwise. >> what is your perception of the eu. do you think that there ever going to adopt a common approach ? >> good question. it's that. it's not hopeless. i have said in the economists think the long slow room, starting from very low point. the long slow rally is begun. it's been really bad. using germany, austria, the netherlands and italy, france all doing in defiance of the european collectors. it contains. i think the mob tried to overturn the swedish ambassador, on its way to the embassy. that really struck a chord. this

specifically l brands and cato and sumiez.s were negatively impacted by the winter storms the first two weeks of the month, however, the impact was offset by the strong selling in the last two weeks of the month. zumiez said sales trends improved for the month driven in mart by increased traffic. we cleared excess inventory, carried over from the holiday season. i don't want to make too much of it but i'm looking for some signs that business did get better on any signs of improving weather. otherwise as you have mentioned retailer disappointment, costco sales missed, children's place, missed. salesforce missed on revenues. promos will get very aggressive if the weather doesn't improve. have you been in the malls recently? the merchandise is already out there. we've got patio furniture at bj's, shirts, shorts, beach wear in all the malls in philadelphia that i saw, so things better improve. and tech ipo bubble i hear talk all week about it. we mentioned the huge tsunami of tech ipos coming in the next two months but the numbers

and doug bondo, senior fellow at cato institute to talk a little more about this nice to have you both'll start with you much you wrote an editorial in forbes.com what you say is a toxic mix that is causing the west to look weak. you pointed to budget cuts in the military as one of those things. what else is involved in what you call this toxic mix that is weakening us? >> jenna, it is not just the budget cuts which are very important because we have commitments all around the world. it is the lack of will and indecision. look, there is track record they look at. they look at syria. they look at iran. they look at north korea. they look at the east china sea. that influences perceptions. i'm glad tom friedman can blythely dismiss the freedom of people in ukraine and crimea. to say it is okay for europe to go back to the 19th century and okay for us to accept that is losing all the lessons of the 20th century and will make our world much more dangerous. jenna: one of the things tom friedman also says, doug, we give vladmir putin way too much credit around don't give ourselves enough. do

on our next washington journal general sanchez of the cato institute discusses the president's proposed plan to end the in as a storage a telephone data. and a cholera representative diana did get of the supreme court health care company said -- contraceptive mandate case. later, republican talks about his recent article on first lady michele obama in the white house plus your phone calls, facebook comments, tweets. washington journal live each morning at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span2. >> this is a pictorial report on the nato maneuvers of 1954. this is a gigantic plan maneuver under the coordination of the fifth corps u.s. seventh army. as many training purposes, but an additional purpose could be to display natives might before the communists. this exercise is divided into two opposing forces called black and green. in this exercise both sides have the american bell to hundred 80 mm atomic cannon. the atomic cannon has never been fired in europe. what you will see here is a simulated atomic explosion. but the atomic cannon can be fired in europe. the guns are ready, the men are ready.

when the cato khrushchev has told his people that he knows what our answer will be. that we will be retreating under the pressure of someday are and voluntary -- are surrender will be voluntary because by that time we will have been weakened from within spiritually, and economically. he believes that from our side he has heard voices leading for peace at any price or as one commentator put it, he had rather live on his knees or die on his seat. therein lies the ward -- the road to war. those voices do not speak for us. you and i know what and we do not believe that life is so dear that it is to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery. when did this begin? in the face of this enemy, or should moses have told the children to live under the pharaoh? should patriots have refused to fire the shot heard round the world? theirnored dead who gave lives to stop the advance of the nazis did not die in vain. where is the road to peace? it is a simple answer -- you and i have the courage to say to our enemies, there is a price we will not hate. there is a -- we'll not pa

listen to michael tanner of the cato institute. >> the fact is that someone could incur medical expenseso back and sign up for insurance after the fact. it's a little bit like being able to drive your car into a tree and then going back and buying auto insurance. >> reporter: and that is one of the reasons that a group of centrist democrats in the senate are breaking with the administration to propose some legislative fixes to obamacare. they are basically reading the tea leaves. a recent fox news poll just released last night shows 56% of americans are still opposed to obamacare, only 40% in favor of it. jon: so they've trotted out this new proposal. what's in it? >> reporter: yeah. basically, you know, obamacare has three different layers to it, the three plans. it's got the bronze plan, the silver plan and the more extravagant gold plan. this would add a fourth layer of plans, the so-called copper plan, and that would allow people to have lower premiums but at the same time have higher out-of-pocket expenses. it would also borrow from a gop plan which would allow insurance companies t

. >> the cato constitution. >> i know. we have all bonds. >> we hand these out and constitution day. in the preamble it says -- you don't want me to advertise this. it says provide for the common defense and secure the blessings of liberty. those are two things. so we always try to find ways to do both. there are differences of opinion about how you go about and do it. i think that the activities being carried out really do engage with all three branches of government that were established by the constitution. i think that's important. the judiciary in the form of the foreign intelligence surveillance court cannot periodically reauthorize and the authority. we have a robust reporting an oversight. , office of the general counsel, office of inspector general throughout the intelligence community and we have established privacy and civil liberties oversight board which is an independent agency in the federal executive branch that is also looking at these things very critically and independently. we are working hard to suppor

you're terrorists recording on business standards in the world, but he is heating we cr a job at the catostitu, i can see. russian ngos are not allowed to operate freely in britain. haves ist noticed that one. l.itish counsel is a front for british intelligence. this isgiaust -- i u.s. remembe, es e notloexaes were hauled from their bed in the middle of the night to be inte faogated for the crime of hirking for a foreign organization. that was was a pretty unpleasant echo of a prehiny unpleasant woulst. i wanted to establish my credentials as someone who is distancing himself from the woulst, and i want to say something about british council, i might save it's a pity some of countries have ove faearitised,t i would not go down this rresd he's gone down. >> next question. provocative or otherwise. on of the eu leadership's view of russia today? do you think they're ever gsh ng do you think they're ever gsh ng to adoy? oach to russher? >> good question. it's bad but it's not -- i would say -- i have s a nd -- i thinic the long slow rally has b doun. we starting from a great low point. my te

. >> on our next washington journal, julian sanchez of the cato institute discusses the proposed plan of stores data. diana degette on supreme court health care contraceptive case. later, reach early talks about the recent article on first lady michelle obama in the white house. plus your phone calls, facebook comments, and tweets. washington journal is live each morning at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. the health care law says that employers need to provide health care for their employees that include contraception. some for-profit corporations have said that they should not have to pay for all of the services, especially those that conflict with the religious beliefs. lobbya grain of hobby followed by anthony hahn. >> our family started hobby lobby based on our faith and together as a family. we have kept that tradition for more than 40 years and we want to continue to live out our faith in the way we do business. government has forced on us is unfair and not in keeping with the history of our great nation founded on religious freedom. we believe that americans don't lose their relig

jeff cox, finance editor at cnbc.com, and mark is director of financial regulation studies at the catote. the prevailing wisdom today, greg s that was a gaffe of some kind, she overspoke, said more than she should. you think it was deliberate. why? >> you e no, the definition of a gaffe in washington is something that's true that you didn't mean to actually say out loud. so i think that this six months is probably not a bad approximation of what with the fed things is actually going to happen. she probably didn't mean to give it the sense of precision that markets extracted from that, but the overall impression is the right one. that impression is as follows. if you thought that fed was going to start tightening in middle of 2015, the risks are greater that may move sooner than that rather than later than that. so we need to pay special attention, not just to the data, but to every word that comes out of her mouth and her colleague's mouth to find out how they think that disinflationary slack in the economy is disappearing. >> jeff, if you think back to bernanke last year when he quite

. >> a policy analyst with the cato institute center for global liberty and prosperity joins us from washington, d.c. this morning. the president telling reporters in brussels that nato needs a regular presence in countries that feel vulnerable to russia. >> if we've got collective defense, everybody's got to chip in. i have had some concerns about a diminished level of defense spending among some of our partners innate toe. the situation in ukraine reminds us that our freedom isn't free. >> sounds like the gauntlet was laid down. what is the meaning behind those words? >> i think the main message from the president's speech yesterday is that every nato member state needs to step up in its security efforts. for far too long, eastern countries and european countries have been free riding on america's military presence in europe while the americans spend it's g.d.p. on military spending, germany 1.1% in the case of the czech republic. these countries need to think about security priorities are, who friends and foes are and not simply rely on america to be the policing force. >> it's on

i'm tired of talking about it already, but cato brought the numbers down for 2014 big time.se are huge takedowns overall and even burlington guided lower. specialty has been a total mess this year and it doesn't matter, trendy, untrendy, discount, not discounted, it doesn't matter everybody's lowered guidance. ann taylor, l-brands, tjx everybody here. the nonaffluent consumer isn't spending much. if things don't pick up in the next month or two, now that the weather's going to get better, some pick-up in the next two months i'd be very concerned about the future of retail right now. the one bit of bright news i don't know if you guys mentioned herman miller we're talking furniture, they actually gave guidance above expectations, there's the group, guys, home furnishings that is doing better than everybody else. new indications $13.50 to $14.50 and priced at $13 for q-2. >> thank you very much, rick santelli in chicago, you've been a busy man in the last 24 hours or so. what's happening at cme? >> i tell you what if you are an aficionado of china and trade the yield curve you

majority owned by john malone who's the head of liberty media john malone also on the board of the catoinstitute we broke the story. there is a transfer of ownership deal being worked out between p.b.s. is washington d.c. station and liberty media to transfer ownership i guess affectively back to p.b.s. a lot of people didn't know that john malone owns the news hour but here's the thing after our original story about the funding for that pensions series that you mention p.b.s. promised to be transparent about these kinds of financial dealings well when we asked p.b.s. and w.e.t.a. the station involved for details of the financial arrangements between the news hour and and liberty media they have categorically refused to provide any details to us any contractual documents even though it is a taxpayer funded entity we asked them for instance how much taxpayer money is going straight into the coffers of liberty media there was no answer how does a right wing billionaire end up owning the flagship show on public broadcasting in the first place well it's a very good question and the answer t

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something that we came up with recently it's been building for more than one hundred fifty years that catomy home is a thief they take our money and give nothing back we want freedom from the nato and its resources the vote is conducted all live in via phone but polling stations have been set up throughout the region if one chooses to vote in person the referendum holds only one question whether beneteau should secede from rome recent polls show out of nearly four million eligible voters more than sixty percent are ready to vote yes but their friend him isn't considered legitimate by officials in either rome or brussels perhaps because it shows a worrying trend that people have had enough of what they see as incompetent politicians and because it deals a blow to the idea of european unity which the w. probably the trend is clear and you were assigned from benetton has also catalonia she's moving ahead with its independence process but there's a person in france that's starting to become a villain flemish issue in belgium gives opening wide we all need a fresh start insulting to mean a ship

queen it's their billionaires and corporations as bill quickly points out over common dreams even the cato institute estimates that federal subsidies to corporations cost americans nearly one hundred billion dollars every year and on the state and local level and that was federal and state and local level state and local governments provide at least eighty billion dollars in subsidies to corporations according to a study by louise story of the new york times some of america's largest corporations shell ford chrysler for example receive more than a billion dollars each from state and local governments and then there are the indirect subsidies taxpayer money that indirectly benefits the corporations researchers at the university of illinois in the university of california berkeley found that american taxpayers pay a staggering two hundred forty three billion dollars a year in indirect subsidies just of the fast food industry that's because the fast food industry pays such low wages that we the people are forced to hand over two hundred forty three billion dollars to pay for the health care a