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America has repeatedly managed to escape earlier periods of factional antipathy, insider domination, and gridlock through its openness to a practice both simple and powerful: political innovation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Panel 4: Helicopter Money and Fiscal QE William Nelson , Executive Vice President and Chief Economist, Bank Policy Institute Robert C. Hockett , Edward Cornell Professor of Law, Cornell Law School Frances Coppola , Columnist, CoinDesk Kevin Dowd , Professor of Finance and Economics, Durham University Business School Moderated by Edward Luce , US National Editor, Financial Times Full Event: https://www.cato.org/events/39th-annual-monetary-conference Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more...
Panel 3: An Expanded Fed Mandate? Otmar Issing , President, Center for Financial Studies at Goethe University, Frankfurt, and former Chief Economist at the European Central Bank Karen Petrou , Managing Partner, Federal Financial Analytics Scott Sumner , Ralph G. Hawtrey Chair of Monetary Policy, Mercatus Center, George Mason University Moderated by Jeanna Smialek , Federal Reserve and Economics Reporter, New York Times Full Event: https://www.cato.org/events/39th-annual-monetary-conference Hoste...
Luncheon Address: Populism and Central Banks Barry Eichengreen , George C. Pardee and Helen N. Pardee Professor of Economics and Political Science, University of California, Berkeley Full Event: https://www.cato.org/events/39th-annual-monetary-conference Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Panel 2: Fiscal Dominance and the Return of Inflation John H. Cochrane , Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University Fernando M. Martin , Assistant Vice President, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Mark Sobel , U.S. Chairman, Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum David Beckworth , Senior Research Fellow, Mercatus Center, George Mason University Moderated by Greg Ip , Chief Economics Correspondent, Wall Street Journal Full Event: https://www.cato.org/events/39th-annual-mon...
Panel 1: The Populist Challenge to Fed Independence Charles Goodhart , Emeritus Professor of Banking and Finance, London School of Economics Rosa María Lastra , Sir John Lubbock Chair in Banking Law, Queen Mary University of London Carola Binder , Assistant Professor of Economics, Haverford College Christina Parajon Skinner , Assistant Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania Moderated by Allison Schrager , Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute ...
Welcoming Remarks James A. Dorn , Vice President for Monetary Studies, Cato Institute Keynote Address Raghuram Rajan , Katherine Dusak Miller Distinguished Service Professor of Finance, University of Chicago Booth School of Business Full Event: https://www.cato.org/events/39th-annual-monetary-conference Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
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Do the nation’s highest officers, including the president, have a right to lie, no matter what damage their falsehoods cause? Does freedom of expression protect falsehoods? If so, are lies by candidates and public officials protected? And is there a constitutional path, without violating the First Amendment, to stop a president whose persistent lies endanger our lives and our democracy? Perhaps counterintuitively, the general answer to each question is “yes.” Drawing from dramatic court cases ab...
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Domestic terrorism has been a part of the American political landscape since the rise of the Ku Klux Klan in the Civil War’s aftermath. During the turbulent transformation of American society during the 1960s and 1970s, a new kind of domestic terrorism threat emerged. Homegrown leftist guerrilla groups, such as the Weather Underground and the Black Liberation Army, carried out hundreds of attacks in the United States. The Nixon administration went to previously unseen lengths to hunt down studen...
In 2014, the United States and 17 other countries began negotiations at the World Trade Organization (WTO) to create an Environmental Goods Agreement (EGA). The aim of these talks was to remove or reduce tariffs on important environmentally friendly products such as wind turbines, solar panels, and energy‐efficient technology. An EGA would allow for freer trade in green products, which would increase global access to environmentally friendly goods. Formal negotiations grew to involve 46 WTO mem...
What explains the explosion in growth and prosperity that humanity has experienced in the past couple centuries? Why did that process take root more readily in some places than in others, and how can its spread be encouraged? Professors Deirdre McCloskey and Stephen Haber will provide separate accounts. McCloskey will contest standard economic explanations and describe the key role of liberal ideas, ideology, and ethics in producing the conditions for human flourishing. Haber will explain how di...
When the state offers money, licenses, or other benefits (such as reduced sentences) with “strings” attached, that’s a powerful method of government control. The federal government increasingly uses this method to induce states, localities, and private parties to submit to conditions of its choosing. And yet this formidable power can enable it to sidestep vital limits that would otherwise apply to its authority. For example, it can secure submission to rules that it would lack the constitutional...
Who should supply the nation with digital currency? Should the Fed do it, should the private sector do it, or should it be provided by some combination of the two? Join us on November 2 for a conversation with J. Christopher Giancarlo, former chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, and Dante Disparte, Circle’s chief strategy officer and head of global policy. The event will be moderated by Cato’s Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives director emeritus George Selgin, during...
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This conference, part of Cato’s Project on Poverty and Inequality in California , will bring together a diverse group of political, business, and academic leaders to discuss regulatory and other barriers to rebuilding economic opportunity in poor and minority communities ravaged by COVID-19. Full event: A New Agenda for Fighting Poverty and Inequality in California (Los Angeles) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Beginning in the 19th century with Anthony Comstock, America’s “censor in chief,” The Mind of the Censor and the Eye of the Beholder explores how censors operate and why they wore out their welcome in society at large. This book explains how the same tactics were tried and eventually failed in the 20th century, with efforts to censor music, comic books, television, and other forms of popular entertainment. The historic examples illustrate not only the mindset and tactics of censors but also why ...
This conference, part of Cato’s Project on Poverty and Inequality in California, will bring together a diverse group of political, business, and academic leaders to discuss regulatory and other barriers to rebuilding economic opportunity in poor and minority communities ravaged by COVID-19. Full event: A New Agenda for Fighting Poverty and Inequality in California (Sacramento) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
This conference, part of Cato’s Project on Poverty and Inequality in California, will bring together a diverse group of political, business, and academic leaders to discuss regulatory and other barriers to rebuilding economic opportunity in poor and minority communities ravaged by COVID-19. Full event: A New Agenda for Fighting Poverty and Inequality in California (Sacramento) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
This conference, part of Cato’s Project on Poverty and Inequality in California , will bring together a diverse group of political, business, and academic leaders to discuss regulatory and other barriers to rebuilding economic opportunity in poor and minority communities ravaged by COVID-19. Full event: A New Agenda for Fighting Poverty and Inequality in California (Sacramento) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
This conference, part of Cato’s Project on Poverty and Inequality in California, will bring together a diverse group of political, business, and academic leaders to discuss regulatory and other barriers to rebuilding economic opportunity in poor and minority communities ravaged by COVID-19. Full event: A New Agenda for Fighting Poverty and Inequality in California (Sacramento) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
This conference, part of Cato’s Project on Poverty and Inequality in California , will bring together a diverse group of political, business, and academic leaders to discuss regulatory and other barriers to rebuilding economic opportunity in poor and minority communities ravaged by COVID-19. Full event: A New Agenda for Fighting Poverty and Inequality in California (Sacramento) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Some prominent interpretations of Islam, the second‐largest religion in the world, defy human freedom by calling for the punishment of apostates and blasphemers, the imposition of religious practices, or discrimination against women and minorities. In his new book published by libertarianism.org, Why, as a Muslim, I Defend Liberty , Cato Institute senior fellow Mustafa Akyol offers a nuanced critique of these problems by acknowledging their roots in the religious tradition. Yet he also sh...
In 1905, the Supreme Court rendered two landmark decisions on the scope of individual liberty: Jacobson v. Massachusetts and Lochner v. New York . Jacobson ’s broad deference to public health authority lived side by side with Lochner ’s broader conception of economic liberty. While the restrictive precedent, Jacobson , now governs all pandemic response, Lochner is no longer available as a check, having been thrown in the dustbin of legal history. Judges follow a variant of Jacobson that’s far re...
