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10.05.2009 6:17 pm

Blogger rebuts rapid-rail study

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Randal O’Toole is a scholar at the conservative Cato Institute. The Daily Kos is a liberal blog. You wouldn’t expect them to agree on much, and they certainly disagree on the subject of high-speed rail. In a lengthy post yesterday, the…

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08.27.2009 6:22 pm

Federal workers earn double the private-sector average

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Chris Edwards of the Cato Institute has delved into the data on federal workers’ pay, and he doesn’t like what he sees:

The George W. Bush years were very lucrative for federal workers. In 2000, the average compensation (wages and benefits)…

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01.29.2009 12:16 pm

Economists say stimulus won’t work

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Even as an $819 billion economic stimulus bill moves forward in Congress, about 200 economists have signed an advertisement saying that it won’t work. The ad, funded by the Cato Institute, starts out with a quote from Barack Obama saying that “there is…

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