Cato Institute to double in size

[Matt Collins]

http://www.cato.org/support/capitalcampaign/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+CatoHomepageHeadlines+(Cato+Hea dlines)

[Brian Defferding]

The Koch brothers certainly got their feathers ruffled from the New Yorker profile on them, as well as the new attention to them from the rest of the press.

[Matt Collins]

The Koch brothers certainly got their feathers ruffled from the New Yorker profile on them, as well as the new attention to them from the rest of the press.
Huh? What does this have to do with anything? :confused:

[Brian Defferding]

Huh? What does this have to do with anything? :confused:

The Koch brothers, the people that founded the Cato Institute, were recently profiled in The New Yorker (http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/08/30/100830fa_fact_mayer) on everything they fund in economics, think tanks, and political campaigns. Since then, the media has started to follow them more closely, with articles like this one (http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_15993325?nclick_check=1) and this one (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129425186). The Koch Brothers, mostly kept in the background for over the last couple decades, are now much more in the public eye. I don't think the Cato Institute's hiring boom since this recent development are coincidental.

[Elwar]

Did Rupert Murdoch give them another big boost?

Will they double the Ron Paul attacks with their new double size this time around?

[Matt Collins]

The Koch brothers, the people that founded the Cato Institute, were recently profiled in The New Yorker (http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/08/30/100830fa_fact_mayer) on everything they fund in economics, think tanks, and political campaigns. Since then, the media has started to follow them more closely, with articles like this one (http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_15993325?nclick_check=1) and this one (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129425186). The Koch Brothers, mostly kept in the background for over the last couple decades, are now much more in the public eye. I don't think the Cato Institute's hiring boom since this recent development are coincidental.
The Koch's involvement in Cato and being the largest single Republican / conservative donors is not news. This was known years and years ago.

[Brian Defferding]

The Koch's involvement in Cato and being the largest single Republican / conservative donors is not news. This was known years and years ago.

For us that know Cato well, sure, but for those on the left I think it was news to them.

[Brian Defferding]

Cato has about 10% corporate funding, and 80% individual funding, give them a break.

I agree.