12:30 – 2:00PM Luncheon Address — None of My Business: P. J. Explains Money, Banking, Debt, Equity, Assets, Liabilities, and Why He’s Not Rich and Neither Are You P. J. O’Rourke , H. L. Mencken Research Fellow, Cato Institute For Cato Institute Policy Perspectives 2019 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Feb 05, 2019•35 min
10:15 – 10:45AM Registration 10:45 – 11:00AM Welcoming Remarks Peter Goettler , President and CEO, Cato Institute 11:00 – 11:40AM Keynote Address — American Life in Columns Michael Smerconish , Radio and Television Host, Newspaper Columnist, and Best-Selling Author 11:40AM – 12:10PM The Inclusive Economy: How to Bring Wealth to America’s Poor Michael Tanner , Senior Fellow, Cato Institute For Cato Institute Policy Perspectives 2019 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Feb 05, 2019•42 min
In today’s highly regulated financial system, launching new products and financial services businesses can be extremely challenging. To facilitate innovation and entry, some jurisdictions have created regulatory sandboxes — supervised halfway houses in which firms can test new products without being subject to the full burden of compliance with existing rules.The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) recently announced such a program for U.S. consumer finance firms. The sandbox promises to...
Jan 17, 2019•1 hr 27 min
The Mercatus Center’s David Beckworth comes to Cato for a live recording of his popular Macro Musings podcast, interviewing George Selgin about his new book Floored!: How a Misguided Fed Experiment Deepened and Prolonged the Great Recession . Floored! is the first comprehensive account of the Federal Reserve’s new post-crisis “floor” monetary policy operating system. Marking his fourth Macro Musings episode, Selgin will share his three-year research journey into this new experimental system, how...
Jan 15, 2019•1 hr 11 min
The Trump administration has emphasized the reemergence of great power competition as the organizing principle for U.S. foreign policy. What scholarship should inform its understanding of how to compete with China and Russia? And how will international relations change in an era when new actors are challenging the status quo?The history of great power politics can provide some clues. Over time, states have risen above rivals and fallen to new challengers—but the transitions have not always been ...
Jan 15, 2019•1 hr 28 min
The legendary spymaster James Jesus Angleton called the world of intelligence a “wilderness of mirrors,” and rarely has that description seemed as apt as it does in 2018. President Donald Trump rails against a “deep state” embedded within the very intelligence agencies over which he now presides—even as former intelligence leaders claim that it’s Trump who has sought to politicize intelligence. In U.S. v. Carpenter , the Supreme Court handed down a seminal Fourth Amendment ruling that could dram...
Dec 14, 2018•1 hr 31 min
The legendary spymaster James Jesus Angleton called the world of intelligence a “wilderness of mirrors,” and rarely has that description seemed as apt as it does in 2018. President Donald Trump rails against a “deep state” embedded within the very intelligence agencies over which he now presides—even as former intelligence leaders claim that it’s Trump who has sought to politicize intelligence. In U.S. v. Carpenter , the Supreme Court handed down a seminal Fourth Amendment ruling that could dram...
Dec 14, 2018•56 min
The legendary spymaster James Jesus Angleton called the world of intelligence a “wilderness of mirrors,” and rarely has that description seemed as apt as it does in 2018. President Donald Trump rails against a “deep state” embedded within the very intelligence agencies over which he now presides—even as former intelligence leaders claim that it’s Trump who has sought to politicize intelligence. In U.S. v. Carpenter , the Supreme Court handed down a seminal Fourth Amendment ruling that could dram...
Dec 14, 2018•1 hr 28 min
The legendary spymaster James Jesus Angleton called the world of intelligence a “wilderness of mirrors,” and rarely has that description seemed as apt as it does in 2018. President Donald Trump rails against a “deep state” embedded within the very intelligence agencies over which he now presides—even as former intelligence leaders claim that it’s Trump who has sought to politicize intelligence. In U.S. v. Carpenter , the Supreme Court handed down a seminal Fourth Amendment ruling that could dram...
Dec 14, 2018•1 hr 30 min
The legendary spymaster James Jesus Angleton called the world of intelligence a “wilderness of mirrors,” and rarely has that description seemed as apt as it does in 2018. President Donald Trump rails against a “deep state” embedded within the very intelligence agencies over which he now presides—even as former intelligence leaders claim that it’s Trump who has sought to politicize intelligence. In U.S. v. Carpenter , the Supreme Court handed down a seminal Fourth Amendment ruling that could dram...
Dec 14, 2018•1 hr 9 min
Too much of contemporary anti-poverty policy focuses on making poverty less miserable, and not enough on helping people get out of poverty. In his new book, The Inclusive Economy: How to Bring Wealth to America’s Poor (release date: December 7), Cato senior fellow Michael Tanner looks at the reasons for poverty in America and issues a bold challenge to the conventional wisdom of both liberals and conservatives. According to Tanner, conservative critiques of a “culture of poverty” fail to account...
Dec 13, 2018•27 min
After years of quiet U.S. support for Saudi Arabia's bombing campaign in Yemen, top officials in the Trump administration are finally talking about ending the conflict. But a lasting resolution to the war remains a distant prospect, and the Yemeni people continue to suffer under bombardment and blockade in one of the worst humanitarian crises in recent memory. What are the facts in Yemen? Why has the United States abetted the Saudi war in Yemen for almost four years? And what is the role of Cong...
Dec 07, 2018•1 hr 33 min
For nearly 100 years the Jones Act has restricted the transportation of cargo between two points in the United States to ships that are U.S.-built, crewed, owned, and flagged. Meant to bolster the U.S. maritime industry and provide a ready supply of ships and mariners in times of conflict, the act has instead presided over a steady deterioration in the number of ships, sailors to crew them, and shipyards to build them. While failing to provide its promised benefits, the law has imposed a huge ec...
Dec 06, 2018•58 min
For nearly 100 years the Jones Act has restricted the transportation of cargo between two points in the United States to ships that are U.S.-built, crewed, owned, and flagged. Meant to bolster the U.S. maritime industry and provide a ready supply of ships and mariners in times of conflict, the act has instead presided over a steady deterioration in the number of ships, sailors to crew them, and shipyards to build them. While failing to provide its promised benefits, the law has imposed a huge ec...
Dec 06, 2018•1 hr 11 min
For nearly 100 years the Jones Act has restricted the transportation of cargo between two points in the United States to ships that are U.S.-built, crewed, owned, and flagged. Meant to bolster the U.S. maritime industry and provide a ready supply of ships and mariners in times of conflict, the act has instead presided over a steady deterioration in the number of ships, sailors to crew them, and shipyards to build them. While failing to provide its promised benefits, the law has imposed a huge ec...
Dec 06, 2018•1 hr 15 min
For nearly 100 years the Jones Act has restricted the transportation of cargo between two points in the United States to ships that are U.S.-built, crewed, owned, and flagged. Meant to bolster the U.S. maritime industry and provide a ready supply of ships and mariners in times of conflict, the act has instead presided over a steady deterioration in the number of ships, sailors to crew them, and shipyards to build them. While failing to provide its promised benefits, the law has imposed a huge ec...
Dec 06, 2018•1 hr 20 min
For nearly 100 years the Jones Act has restricted the transportation of cargo between two points in the United States to ships that are U.S.-built, crewed, owned, and flagged. Meant to bolster the U.S. maritime industry and provide a ready supply of ships and mariners in times of conflict, the act has instead presided over a steady deterioration in the number of ships, sailors to crew them, and shipyards to build them. While failing to provide its promised benefits, the law has imposed a huge ec...
Dec 06, 2018•1 hr 25 min
10:50 – 11:00AM Welcoming Remarks Peter Goettler , President and CEO, Cato Institute 11:00 – 11:30AM Is Islam Compatible with Freedom? Mustafa Akyol , Senior Fellow, Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity, Cato Institute Cato Institute Policy Perspectives 2018 - Chicago Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Nov 30, 2018•37 min
The Uyghurs, a Turkic Muslim people who primarily live in Xinjiang, a northwestern region in China, have long suffered the repressive regime of the Chinese Communist Party. Since early 2017, however, a new wave of repression began, as Chinese authorities initiated a comprehensive “reeducation” program involving state propaganda, mass surveillance, and the internment of hundreds of thousands of Uyghurs in concentration camps. Using the handful of violent extremists among Uyghurs as a pretext, the...
Nov 28, 2018•1 hr 27 min
Ten years after the 2008 financial crisis, we are again facing the possibility of economic turmoil as the Fed and other central banks exit their unconventional monetary policies. Although central banks will move gradually, unforeseen circumstances could trigger a flight to safety and a collapse of asset prices. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Nov 15, 2018•1 hr
Ten years after the 2008 financial crisis, we are again facing the possibility of economic turmoil as the Fed and other central banks exit their unconventional monetary policies. Although central banks will move gradually, unforeseen circumstances could trigger a flight to safety and a collapse of asset prices. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Nov 15, 2018•1 hr 7 min
Ten years after the 2008 financial crisis, we are again facing the possibility of economic turmoil as the Fed and other central banks exit their unconventional monetary policies. Although central banks will move gradually, unforeseen circumstances could trigger a flight to safety and a collapse of asset prices. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Nov 15, 2018•1 hr
Ten years after the 2008 financial crisis, we are again facing the possibility of economic turmoil as the Fed and other central banks exit their unconventional monetary policies. Although central banks will move gradually, unforeseen circumstances could trigger a flight to safety and a collapse of asset prices. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Nov 15, 2018•1 hr 9 min
Ten years after the 2008 financial crisis, we are again facing the possibility of economic turmoil as the Fed and other central banks exit their unconventional monetary policies. Although central banks will move gradually, unforeseen circumstances could trigger a flight to safety and a collapse of asset prices. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Nov 15, 2018•1 hr 11 min
Ten years after the 2008 financial crisis, we are again facing the possibility of economic turmoil as the Fed and other central banks exit their unconventional monetary policies. Although central banks will move gradually, unforeseen circumstances could trigger a flight to safety and a collapse of asset prices. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Nov 15, 2018•55 min
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Nov 09, 2018•50 min
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Nov 09, 2018•19 min
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Nov 09, 2018•35 min
“Healer in chief,” national redeemer, father figure, Leader of the Free World — the modern president is required to be all those things and more. It’s a radical — and dangerous — departure from the Founding Fathers’ vision of a chief magistrate with limited powers, charged with faithfully executing the laws. The demands we’ve placed on the office have transformed it into a constitutional monstrosity with powers too vast to entrust to any single, fallible human being.How did we get here? Where do...
Nov 08, 2018•44 min
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Nov 02, 2018•1 hr 7 min
