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Get really nervous and thats much the same way donald trump, as you say a new yorker to the bone is a suddenly plain that you may not have guessed we first heard him talk. You can watch this and other programs on my netbook tv. Org. Good morning and welcome to the Cato Institute. Im an analyst here and also editor of Human Progress, which is an educational website that tries to put together as many statistics about human world being as possible in order to present to our users and the general public a more real action of the world than the headlines would suggest. Speaking about headlines, it is perhaps an understatement to say that we live in an era of great pessimism. This pessimism is not distributed easily evenly across the world. But, it is felt very acutely in many western democracies including ours, here in the us. Some three quarters of americans believe that the us is going in the wrong direction. The choices that the electric will be presented with comes november, exaggerates
Director of the center for principal and politics and we are joined by one of my favorite writers, Theodore Dalrymple. When i say his name many look at me with eyes of recognition confirming the numbers among their favorite writers as well. Others to stare back with puzzlement ask with their eyes, what is Theodore Dalrymple . Tonights event is about Theodore Dalrymples new book admirable evasions how psychology undermines morality. A close examination of modern psychology, psychiatrist and neuroscience from the perspective of literature and philosophy is long overdue. The scope of modern psychologys influence is remarkable. Indeed to what or to whom do we most turn to learn about what man is and what is good for him . What other authority in modern secular democracies is as widely presumed capable of addressing Human Happiness . Our predisposition toward him, not genetic of course but social is on account of notions wheeled onto for dear life let equality for example. Equality implies
Expecting the u. S. Economy to grow to . The reason i raise this is to go down there and talk to policy makers and business people. We could have more taxes here, more regulation there. A little more cost of labor here. And a fair amount of uncertainty and take on one of the great economic miracles. They understand this thing they have a great economy growing rapidly is fragile and requires government to facilitate rather than later uncertainty. That is almost like a test tube of forcing. We had a time in which we had a huge amount of uncertainty. Comes from some comes from government action. We had an aggressive regulatory agenda. We have not made a certain investments we have made. You add that up and you have a period in which businesses are operating under huge weight. Creates the conditions under which businesses can operate in intellectual freedom. Among the things government can do is create the conditions under which cost [no audio] to allow businesses to innovate. One of the s
The benefits cut. House of representatives is considering a bill to slash food stamp subsidies by 4 billion a year. Right now, one in seven americans use food stamps, and the cost of the program has doubled in the last five years. If. The Costa Concordia is upright. Youre looking at the ship right now. It took 19 hours, and it capsized after a granite rock tore a 50meter tear. Im morgan, thank you for joining us and see you at 2 00 a. M. America rocked by another mass shooting. This time in washington d. C. s navy yard. Details are still pouring in. The death toll has surged into double digital with several others injured. Consider this how could someone with a troubled background like the suspected shooter, aaron alexis gain access to a military inis itation. The double edged sorted of breaking news getting out information quickly but often misinforming the public. Five years have paced since Lehman Brothers collapsed. We will have an inside look at the frantic attempts to control the