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Mad about Trade: Why Main Street America Should Embrace Globalization (11/6/09)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author, Daniel Griswold, Director, Center for Trade Policy Studies, Cato Institute; with comments by Steven Pearlstein, Business and economy columnist, The Washington Post. Moderated by Daniel J. Ikenson, Associate Director, Center for Trade Policy Studies, Cato Institute.

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Cato Institute Policy Perspectives 2009 (11/6/09)
A Cato Institute City Seminar featuring Edward H. Crane, President, Cato Institute, John H. Cochrane, AQR Capital Management Professor of Finance, University of Chicago Booth School of Business, and Adjunct Scholar, Cato Institute; Michael Cannon, Director of Health Policy Studies, Cato Institute; Jerry Taylor, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute; and Clifford S. Asness, Managing & Founding Principal, AQR Capital Management.

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Climate Change, Copenhagen, and Congress (11/5/09)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Patrick J. Michaels, Senior Fellow in Environmental Studies, Cato Institute, and co-author, Climate of Extremes: Global Warming Science They Don't Want You to Know.

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Money, Greed, and God: Why Capitalism Is the Solution and Not the Problem (11/4/09)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author, Jay Richards, with comments by Doug Bandow, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute, and author, Beyond Good Intentions: A Biblical View of Politics. Moderated by Daniel Griswold, Director of the Center for Trade Policy Studies, Cato Institute, and author, Mad about Trade: Why Main Street America Should Embrace Globalization.

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Can the United States Affect Iran's Nuclear Ambitions? (11/3/09)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Justin Logan, Associate Director of Foreign Policy Studies, Cato Institute and Matthew Duss, National Security Researcher, Center for American Progress.

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Tricked on Our Treats: Time to Rethink the U.S. Sugar Program (10/30/09)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Daniel Griswold, Director, Center for Trade Policy Studies, Cato Institute; author, Mad About Trade; and William A. Reinsch, President, National Foreign Trade Council.

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Atomic Obsession: Nuclear Alarmism from Hiroshima to Al Qaeda (10/29/09)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author, John Mueller, Woody Hayes Chair of National Security Studies, Ohio State University; Michael Krepon, Co-Founder, Henry L. Stimson Center; and Jeffrey G. Lewis, Director, Nuclear Strategy and Nonproliferation Initiative, New America Foundation. Moderated by Justin Logan, Associate Director of Foreign Policy Studies, Cato Institute.

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Cato Institute Policy Perspectives 2009 (10/29/09)
A Cato Institute City Seminar featuring: Edward H. Crane, President, Cato Institute; David Boaz, Executive Vice President, Cato Institute; Mark A. Calabria, Director of Financial Regulation Studies, Cato Institute; Jerry Taylor, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute; and Leo Melamed, Chairman Emeritus, CME Group, CEO of Melamed & Associates, Inc., and author of For Crying Out Loud: From Open Outcry to the Electronic Screen.

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The Life and Impact of Ayn Rand (10/28/09)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring Jennifer Burns, Author, Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right (Oxford University Press, 2009); and Anne C. Heller, Author, Ayn Rand and the World She Made (Doubleday, 2009).

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The Case for Tax Competition, Fiscal Sovereignty, and Financial Privacy (10/20/09)
A Cato Institute Conference. Bringing together experts from around the world, Cato's tax competition conference will address a wide range of current and newly arising issues.

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Which Way Forward for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac? (10/19/09)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring David Reiss, Professor, Brooklyn Law School; Jay Brinkmann, Chief Economist, Mortgage Bankers Association; and David Crowe, Chief Economist, National Association of Home Builders. Moderated by Mark A. Calabria, Director, Financial Regulation Studies, Cato Institute.

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Driving in the Wrong Direction: The Sordid Details and Lasting Consequences of the Bush/Obama Auto Industry Intervention (10/15/09)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Richard Mourdock, Treasurer, State of Indiana and Representative of the Indiana State Pension Funds Objecting to the Chrysler Bankruptcy Plan; and David A. Skeel, Professor of Corporate Law, University of Pennsylvania Law School. Moderated by Daniel J. Ikenson, Associate Director, Center for Trade Policy Studies, Cato Institute.

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To Begin the World Over Again: Lawrence of Arabia from Damascus to Baghdad (10/14/09)
A Cato Institute Book Forum. Featuring the author John C. Hulsman, Alfred von Oppenheim Scholar in Residence, German Council on Foreign Relations; Christopher Preble, Director of Foreign Policy Studies, Cato Institute; and Daniel Serwer, Vice President, Centers of Innovation, Center for Post-Conflict Peace and Stability Operations, United States Institute of Peace. Moderated by Justin Logan, Associate Director of Foreign Policy Studies, Cato Institute.

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The Power of Memory and Acknowledgement (10/13/09)
A Cato Institute Distinguished Lecture featuring Vladimir Bukovsky, Author and former Soviet political dissident.

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Not Invited to the Party: How the Demopublicans Have Rigged the System and Left Independents Out in the Cold (10/13/09)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author, James T. Bennett, Professor of Economics, George Mason University; with comments by Theresa Amato, Author, Grand Illusion: The Myth of Voter Choice in a Two-Party Tyranny; and Hans A. von Spakovsky, Senior Legal Fellow, Heritage Foundation, and former member, Federal Election Commission. Moderated by John Samples, Director, Center for Representative Government, Cato Institute.

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How Government "Competes": Grab Arm, Twist (10/13/09)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Kent Masterson Brown, Lead attorney, Hall v. Sebelius; and Michael F. Cannon, Director of Health Policy Studies, Cato Institute, and co-author of Healthy Competition: What's Holding Back Health Care and How to Free It.

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Cato Club 200 (10/8-11/09)
A Cato Institute Conference. By Invitation only.

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Taking Control of Spiraling College Costs (10/6/09)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Robert E. Martin, Professor Emeritus, Centre College; Kevin Carey, Policy Director, Education Sector; George Leef, Director of Research, John W. Pope Center for Higher Education Policy; and Neal McCluskey, Associate Director, Center for Educational Freedom, Cato Institute. Moderated by Mary Beth Marklein, Education Reporter, USA Today.

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America's Top Models: Can the Nation's Best Charter Schools Be Brought to Scale? (10/2/09)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring Ben Chavis, Principal, American Indian Charter School, Author, Crazy Like a Fox and Jay Mathews, Washington Post Columnist, Author, Work Hard, Be Nice: How Two Inspired Teachers Created the Most Promising Schools in America. Respondent and moderator Andrew Coulson, Director, Cato Institute Center for Educational Freedom, Author, Market Education: The Unknown History.

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The Criminalization of (Almost) Everything (10/1/09)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring Harvey Silverglate, Author of Three Felonies a Day; and Tim Lynch, Editor of In the Name of Justice and Director of Cato's Project on Criminal Justice. Moderated by Tony Blankley, Executive Vice President, Edelman, Inc., and Columnist, Washington Times.

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How American Health Care Killed My Father (10/1/09)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring David Goldhill, Author of "How American Health Care Killed My Father," The Atlantic, September 2009; and Michael F. Cannon, Director of Health Policy Studies, Cato Institute, and co-author of Healthy Competition: What's Holding Back Health Care and How to Free It.

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The China Factor: Persuading Beijing to Get Tough with North Korea (9/30/09)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Ted Galen Carpenter, Vice President for Defense and Foreign Policy Studies, Cato Institute; and Doug Bandow, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute.

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The Case for Withdrawal from Afghanistan (9/25/09)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Malou Innocent, Foreign Policy Analyst, Cato Institute, and co-author of "Escaping the 'Graveyard of Empires': A Strategy to Exit Afghanistan"; and Ted Galen Carpenter, Vice President for Defense and Foreign Policy Studies, Cato Institute, and co-author of "Escaping the 'Graveyard of Empires': A Strategy to Exit Afghanistan."

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Freedom and Prosperity in Central and Eastern Europe: 20 Years after the Collapse of Communism (9/21/09)
A Cato Institute Conference.

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Toward a Customer-Driven Transportation Reauthorization (9/17/09)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Rep. Scott Garrett (R-NJ); Sam Staley, Urban Futures Program, Reason Public Policy Institute, and author, Mobility First: A New Vision for Transportation in a Globally Competitive Twenty-First Century; and Randal O'Toole, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute.

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8th Annual Constitution Day (9/17/09)
A Cato Institute Conference. To celebrate Constitution Day and the publication of the eighth volume of the annual Cato Supreme Court Review.

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The Right Road for America: Top-Down Transportation Planning vs. Customer-Driven Mobility (9/15/09)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Alan Pisarski, Author, Commuting in America; Gabriel Roth, Editor, Street Smart; and Randal O'Toole, Author, The Best-Laid Plans and Senior Fellow, Cato Institute. Moderated by Peter Van Doren, Senior Fellow and Editor, Regulation, Cato Institute.

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Should the United States Withdraw from Afghanistan? (9/14/09)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Malou Innocent, Foreign Policy Analyst, Cato Institute, and co-author of Escaping the 'Graveyard of Empires': A Strategy to Exit Afghanistan; Celeste Ward, Senior Defense Analyst, RAND Corp.; Patrick M. Cronin, Director of the Institute for National Strategic Studies, National Defense University; Robert Naiman, National Coordinator, Just Foreign Policy; and Ted Galen Carpenter, Vice President for Defense and Foreign Policy Studies, Cato Institute, and co-author of Escaping the 'Graveyard of Empires': A Strategy to Exit Afghanistan. Moderated by Christopher Preble, Director of Foreign Policy Studies, Cato Institute.

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A Harsh Climate for Trade: How Climate Change Proposals Threaten Global Commerce (9/10/09)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Sallie James, Trade Policy Analyst, Cato Institute; Gary Hufbauer, Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics; and Clayton Yeutter, Senior Advisor, Hogan and Hartson LLP and former United States Trade Representative.

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Understanding Health Care Co-ops (9/9/09)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Michael D. Tanner, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute, and author, Healthy Competition: What's Holding Back Health Care and How to Free It.

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Citizens United Redux: The First Amendment Vindicated? (9/8/09)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Bradley A. Smith, Former Chairman, Federal Election Commission and Chairman, Center for Competitive Politics; Jamin Raskin, Professor of Law, Director of the Program on Law and Government at Washington College of Law, American University; Maryland State Senator; and John Samples, Director, Center for Representative Government, Cato Institute.

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Diagnosing and Treating the Roots of the Financial Crisis (9/2/09)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Johan Norberg, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute, and author, Financial Fiasco; and Mark A. Calabria, Director of Financial Regulation Studies, Cato Institute.

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Financial Fiasco: How America's Infatuation with Home Ownership and Easy Money Created the Economic Crisis (9/1/09)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring Johan Norberg, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute; with comments by Dr. Anthony Sanders, Distinguished Professor of Real Estate Finance, George Mason University; and Dawn Kopecki, Reporter, Bloomberg News.

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The Age of Reagan: The Conservative Counterrevolution 1980–1989 (8/27/09)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author, Steven F. Hayward, Weyerhaeuser Fellow, American Enterprise Institute; with comments by William A. Niskanen, Chairman Emeritus, Cato Institute, and Author, Reaganomics: An Insider's Account of the Policies and the People; and James Mann, Foreign Policy Institute Author-in-Residence, SAIS, Johns Hopkins University, and Author, The Rebellion of Ronald Reagan: A History of the End of the Cold War.

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Restriction or Legalization? Measuring the Economic Benefits of Immigration Reform (8/14/09)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Peter Dixon, Principal Researcher, Centre of Policy Studies, Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University (Australia); and Daniel Griswold, Director, Center for Trade Policy Studies, Cato Institute.

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Create Your Own Economy: The Path to Prosperity in a Disordered World (8/4/09)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author Tyler Cowen, Professor of Economics, George Mason University; with comments by Robin Hanson, Professor of Economics, George Mason University; Matthew Yglesias, Fellow, Center for American Progress; and moderated by Brink Lindsey, Vice President for Research, Cato Institute.

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Venezuela's Assault on Freedom of the Press and Other Liberties (7/30/09)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Carlos Alberto Zuloaga, Executive Vice President, Globovision Televisión, Venezuela; Rafael Alfonzo, President, CEDICE, Venezuela; Robert Rivard, Director, Committee on Freedom of the Press, Inter American Press Association; and moderated by Ian Vásquez, Director, Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity, Cato Institute.

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Cato University (7/26-31/09)
A Cato Institute Conference.

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Assessing the Options: REAL ID, PASS ID, or No National ID at All (7/24/09)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Christopher Calabrese, Counsel, Technology & Liberty Program, American Civil Liberties Union; David E. Williams, Vice President, Policy, Citizens Against Government Waste; and Jim Harper, Director of Information Policy Studies, Cato Institute.

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Who Are the Uninsured? (7/20/09)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring June E. O'Neill, Former CBO Director and Wollman Distinguished Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for the Study of Business and Government, Baruch College, City University of New York; and Michael Tanner, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute.

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What Government-Run Health Care Really Means (7/15/09)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Sally Pipes, President and CEO, Pacific Research Institute; Michael Cannon, Director of Health Policy Studies, Cato Institute; and moderated by Michael Tanner, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute.

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Engaging China to Solve the North Korea Problem (7/14/09)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Ted Galen Carpenter, Vice President for Defense and Foreign Policy Studies, Cato Institute; Scott Snyder, Director of the Center for U.S.-Korea Policy, The Asia Foundation; Larry Niksch, Specialist in Asian Affairs, U.S. Congressional Research Service; Doug Bandow, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute. Moderated by Christopher Preble, Director of Foreign Policy Studies, Cato Institute.

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Voting Rights—and Wrongs: The Elusive Quest for Racially Fair Elections (7/9/09)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author Abigail Thernstrom, Vice-Chair, United States Commission on Civil Rights, with comments by Roger Clegg, President and General Counsel, Center for Equal Opportunity. Moderated by Roger Pilon, Director, Cato Institute's Center for Constitutional Studies.

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Federal Drug Policy: Time to Shift Priorities (7/7/09)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Hon. Bob Barr, Liberty Strategies; Pat Nolan, Vice President, Prison Fellowship; Cheye Calvo, Mayor, Berwyn Heights, Maryland; and Tim Lynch, Director of the Cato Institute's Project on Criminal Justice.

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To Reform Health Care, Don't Increase Taxes, Cut Them (6/26/09)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Michael D. Tanner, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute and Michael F. Cannon, Director of Health Policy Studies, Cato Institute.

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Is This Socialized Medicine? (6/25/09)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Stan Dorn, Senior Research Associate, Urban Institute and Michael F. Cannon, Director of Health Policy Studies, Cato Institute.

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Bringing Transparency to the Federal Reserve (6/24/09)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX); with comments by Gilbert Schwartz, Partner, Schwartz & Ballen LLP, Former Associate General Counsel, Federal Reserve; and Bert Ely, President, Ely & Company, Inc. Moderated by Mark Calabria Director, Financial Regulation Studies, Cato Institute.

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Pakistan and the Future of U.S. Policy (6/23/09)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Ambassador Wendy Chamberlin, President of the Middle East Institute and former U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan; Mukhtar A. Khan, Analyst, The Jamestown Foundation; Ken Luongo, President of the Partnership for Global Security; Malou Innocent, Foreign Policy Analyst, Cato Institute. Moderated by Christopher Preble, Director of Foreign Policy Studies, Cato Institute.

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It's Our Turn to Eat: The Story of a Kenyan Whistleblower (6/22/09)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author Michela Wrong, with comments by Frank Vogl, President of Vogl Communications, Inc., Former Vice Chairman and Co-Founder of Transparency International. Moderated by Marian Tupy, Policy Analyst, Cato Institute.

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Massachusetts — Three Years Later (6/22/09)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Michael D. Tanner, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute; Greg Scandlen, President and CEO, Consumers for Health Care Choices; and Greg D'Angelo, Policy Analyst, Center for Health Policy Studies, Heritage Foundation.

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Dred Scott's Revenge: A Legal History of Race and Freedom in America (6/18/09)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author, Judge Andrew P. Napolitano; with comments by Damon Root, Associate Editor, Reason; and Jason Kuznicki, Research Fellow, Cato Institute.

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Cato Institute Conference on Health Care Reform (6/17/09)
A Cato Institute Conference.

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A New Course for Antitrust (6/16/09)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Carl Shapiro, Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Economics, Antitrust Division, U.S. Department of Justice; with comments by Joshua D. Wright, George Mason University School of Law; and Edwin S. Rockefeller, Former Chairman, ABA Section of Antitrust Law, and author of The Antitrust Religion. Moderated by Douglas H. Ginsburg, U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.

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Restoring the Pro-Trade Consensus (6/15/09)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX), Founder, Congressional Pro-Trade Caucus; and Daniel J. Ikenson, Associate Director, Center for Trade Policy Studies, Cato Institute.

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Fusion Centers: Domestic Spying or Sensible Surveillance? (6/11/09)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Bruce Fein, Constitutional Attorney, The Lichfield Group; Harvey Eisenberg, Chief, National Security Section, Office of United States Attorney, District of Maryland; and Michael German, Policy Counsel, American Civil Liberties Union. Moderated by Tim Lynch, Director, Project on Criminal Justice, Cato Institute.

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Who Are the Real Free Traders in Congress? (6/10/09)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Sen. Judd Gregg (R-NH) and Daniel Griswold, Director, Center for Trade Policy Studies, Cato Institute.

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Driving Like Crazy (6/9/09)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author P. J. O'Rourke, H. L. Mencken Research Fellow, Cato Institute.

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The Financial Fix — Limited Purpose Banking (6/8/09)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring John Goodman, President, National Center for Policy Analysis; and Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Professor of Economics, Boston University, and Senior Fellow, National Center for Policy Analysis. With comments by William Poole, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute, and Former President, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. Moderated by William A. Niskanen, Chairman Emeritus and Distinguished Senior Economist, Cato Institute.

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Cato Institute Policy Perspectives 2009 (6/4/09)
A Cato Institute City Seminar.

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Cato Institute Policy Perspectives 2009 (6/3/09)
A Cato Institute City Seminar.

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Will Cost Containment Derail Health Care Reform? (6/2/09)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Arnold Kling, Adjunct Scholar, Cato Institute, and Author, Crisis of Abundance: Rethinking How We Pay for Health Care.

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Brother, Can You Spare A Trillion? - Lessons from the New Deal and Great Depression (6/1/09)
A Cato Institute Conference.

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Money, Markets, and Sovereignty (5/19/09)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring Benn Steil, Co-author and Director of International Economics, Council on Foreign Relations; and Manuel Hinds, Co-author and Former Finance Minister of El Salvador. Moderated by Ian Vásquez, Director, Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity, Cato Institute.

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The Welfare State We're In (5/18/09)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author, James Bartholomew, columnist for the Daily Telegraph and the Daily Mail; with comments by Dr. Wendell Primus, Senior Policy Advisor on Budget and Health Issues to Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Moderated by Michael Tanner, Senior Fellow, Health and Welfare Studies, Cato Institute.

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Is It Time to End the International War on Drugs? (5/15/09)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Ted Galen Carpenter, Vice President for Defense and Foreign Policy Studies, Cato Institute; and Ian Vásquez, Director of the Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity, Cato Institute.

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How Overreaction and Misdirection Play into the Strategy of Terrorism (5/11/09)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Christopher A. Preble, Director of Foreign Policy Studies, Cato Institute and David Rittgers, Legal Policy Analyst, Cato Institute, and three-tour veteran, Operation Enduring Freedom, Afghanistan.

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The Dangers of U.S. Military Dominance (5/1/09)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Christopher A. Preble, Director of Foreign Policy Studies, Cato Institute, and author, The Power Problem: How American Military Dominance Makes Us Less Safe, Less Prosperous, and Less Free (Cornell University Press, 2009); and Paul J. Saunders, Executive Director, The Nixon Center.

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Cato Institute Policy Perspectives 2009 (4/30/09)
A Cato Institute City Seminar.

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Restoring the Pro-Trade Consensus (4/28/09)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Tim Reif, General Counsel, Office of the U.S. Trade Representative; Anne Kim, Economic Program Director, Third Way; and Dan Ikenson, Associate Director, Center for Trade Policy Studies, Cato Institute.

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Shadow Open Market Committee (4/24/09)
A Cato Institute Conference featuring position papers from Michael Bordo, Rutgers University, "The Great Contraction 1929–1933: Are There Parallels to the Current Crisis?"; Charles Calomiris, Columbia University, "The Dos and Don'ts of Financial Regulatory Reform" and "TALF and PPIP: Will they Work to Unclog the Financial Plumbing?"; Marvin Goodfriend, Carnegie Mellon University, "We Need an Accord for Fed Credit Policy"; Mickey Levy, Bank of America, "What's in Worse Shape, the Economy or Fiscal Policy?"; Bennett McCallum, Carnegie Mellon University, "China, the U.S. Dollar, and SDRs"; and Anna Schwartz, NBER, "Boundaries Between the Fed and the Treasury"; Moderated by Gregory Hess, Claremont McKenna College.

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The Power of Freedom: Uniting Human Rights and Development (4/23/09)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author Jean-Pierre Chauffour, Economic Adviser, International Trade Department, World Bank; with comments by Susan Aaronson, Associate Research Professor of International Affairs, George Washington University; moderated by Ian Vasquez, Director, Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity, Cato Institute.

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The Power Problem: How American Military Dominance Makes Us Less Safe, Less Prosperous, and Less Free (4/20/09)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author Christopher A. Preble, Director of Foreign Policy Studies, Cato Institute; Lawrence J. Korb, Center for American Progress; Scott McConnell, The American Conservative; and moderated by Ted Galen Carpenter, Vice President for Defense and Foreign Policy Studies, Cato Institute.

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Can Government Be Trusted with the Money Supply? (4/17/09)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring George Selgin, Author of Good Money; Steve H. Hanke, Professor of Applied Economics, Johns Hopkins University and Senior Fellow, Cato Institute; Richard W. Rahn, Chairman, Institute for Global Economic Growth and Senior Fellow, Cato Institute; moderator James A. Dorn, Director, Cato Annual Monetary Conference, and Editor, Cato Journal

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Left Turn? South Africa after the Election (4/16/09)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Welile Nhlapo, South African Ambassador to the United States; J. Daniel O'Flaherty, Vice President, National Foreign Trade Council; Tom Woods, Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Africa; Moderated by Marian Tupy, Policy Analyst, Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity, Cato Institute.

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The Beautiful Tree: A Personal Journey Into How the World's Poorest People Are Educating Themselves (4/15/09)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author, James Tooley, award-winning scholar who lives in Hyderabad, India, where he works with those who inspired this book; Reshma Lohia, who runs the private school, Lohia's Little Angels, serving 500 poor students in India; and Andrew J. Coulson, Director of the Center for Educational Freedom at the Cato Institute.

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Health Care University: Which Reforms Are Better—or Worse—than Doing Nothing? (4/14-17/09)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Michael F. Cannon, Director, Health Policy Studies, and coauthor of Healthy Competition: What's Holding Back Health Care and How to Free It.

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Seasteading: Homesteading the High Seas for Liberty (4/7/09)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Patri Friedman, Executive Director, Seasteading Institute; with comments by Doug Bandow, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute; and Arnold Kling Adjunct Scholar, Cato Institute.

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What the Administration's College Proposals Would Do for America (4/7/09)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Andrew Gillen, Research Director, Center for College Affordability and Productivity; and Neal McCluskey, Associate Director, Center for Educational Freedom, Cato Institute.

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Securing Land Rights for Chinese Farmers: The Progress So Far (4/6/09)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Roy Prosterman, Chair Emeritus, Rural Development Institute; and Zhu Keliang, East Asia Program Manager, Rural Development Institute; moderated by Ian Vasquez, Director, Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity, Cato Institute

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Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa (4/3/09)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author Dambisa Moyo; with comments by Todd Moss, Center for Global Development; moderated by Ian Vasquez, Director, Cato Institute's Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity;

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Drug Decriminalization in Portugal (4/3/09)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Glenn Greenwald, Attorney and Best-selling Author; with comments by Peter Reuter, Department of Criminology, University of Maryland; moderated by Tim Lynch, Director, Project on Criminal Justice, Cato Institute.

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NATO at 60: A Hollow Alliance (4/3/09)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Ted Galen Carpenter, Vice President for Defense and Foreign Policy Studies, Cato Institute.

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Can the Market Provide Choice and Secure Health Coverage Even for High-Cost Illnesses? (3/31/09)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring John H. Cochrane, Myron S. Scholes Professor of Finance, University of Chicago Booth School of Business Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research; Bradley Herring, Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; moderated by Michael F. Cannon, Director of Health Policy Studies, Cato Institute.

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Obama's Blueprint for Growing the Welfare State (3/31/09)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Rep. Paul Ryan, Ranking Member, House Committee on the Budget; Chris Edwards, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute; and Michael Tanner, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute.

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Georgia's Liberal Institutions In the Wake of War and the Global Economic Crisis (3/24/09)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring David Bakradze, Speaker of the Georgian Parliament; Kakha Bendukidze, Former Minister of the Economy and Reform Coordination, Georgia; and Andrei Illarionov, Senior Fellow, Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity, Cato Institute;

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Cato Institute Policy Perspectives 2009 (3/24/09)
A Cato Institute City Seminar featuring David Boaz, Executive Vice President, Cato Institute; Lawrence W. Reed, President, Foundation for Economic Education; Robert Levy, Chairman, Cato Institute; Jerry Taylor, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute.

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The Tie Goes to Freedom: Justice Anthony M. Kennedy on Liberty (3/23/09)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring author Helen J. Knowles, State University of New York, Oswego; With comments by Randy Barnett, Georgetown University Law Center; Moderated by Roger Pilon, Director, Cato Institute's Center for Constitutional Studies;

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Tax Havens Should Be Celebrated, Not Persecuted (3/23/09)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Daniel J. Mitchell, Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute and coauthor of Global Tax Revolution: The Rise of Tax Competition and the Battle to Defend It; and Richard Rahn, Former member of the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority;

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The Politics and Science of Medical Marijuana (3/17/09)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Donald Abrams, M.D., Director of Clinical Programs, Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, University of California; Robert DuPont, M.D., President, Institute for Behavior and Health; Rob Kampia, Executive Director, Marijuana Policy Project; Moderated by Tim Lynch, Director, Project on Criminal Justice, Cato Institute

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Can the Pentagon Be Fixed? (3/13/09)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Winslow Wheeler, Director, Straus Military Reform Project, Center for Defense Information; Colonel Douglas Macgregor, U.S. Army (Retired), Straus Military Reform Project adviser; Danielle Brian, Executive Director, Project on Government Oversight; Thomas Ricks, Senior Fellow, Center for a New American Security, and Special Military Correspondent for the Washington Post; and Benjamin Friedman, Research Fellow in Defense and Homeland Security, Cato Institute;

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Transportation Reauthorization: Looking Beyond the Recession (3/12/09)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Randal O'Toole, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute and author of The Best-Laid Plans: How Government Planning Harms Your Quality of Life, Your Pocketbook, and Your Future; and Robert Poole, Director of Transportation Studies, Reason Foundation;

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Climate of Extremes: Global Warming Science They Don’t Want You to Know (3/12/09)
A Cato Institute Book Forum. Featuring coauthor Patrick J. Michaels, Senior Fellow in Environmental Studies at the Cato Institute with comments by David Legates, Delaware State Climatologist and Director of the Delaware Environmental Observing System.

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21st Annual Benefactor Summit (3/4-8/09)
A Cato Institute Conference. By invitation only.

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Should Government Deliver Comparative-Effectiveness Research – or Can It? (3/3/09)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Shannon Brownlee, Visiting Scholar, NIH Clinical Center, Dept. of Bioethics, and also Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation; Scott Gottlieb, M.D., Resident Fellow, American Enterprise Institute; and Michael F. Cannon, Director of Health Policy Studies, Cato Institute;

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Obama and Presidential Power: Change or Continuity? (2/25/09)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Louis Fisher, Specialist on the Constitution, Law Library of Congress; and Jeffrey Rosen, Professor, The George Washington University School of Law. Moderated by Gene Healy, Vice President, Cato Institute.

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Why Markets Are the Key to Quality, Coordinated Medical Care (2/20/09)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Arnold Kling, author of Crisis of Abundance, Under the Radar: Starting Your Internet Business Without Venture Capital and Learning Economics and Adjunct Scholar, Cato Institute.

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Mexico’s Drug War: The Growing Crisis on Our Southern Border (2/19/09)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Ted Galen Carpenter, Vice President for Defense and Foreign Policy Studies, Cato Institute; Ethan Nadelmann, Executive Director of the Drug Policy Alliance; Vanda Felbab-Brown, Foreign Policy Fellow at the Brookings Institution; and Daniel T. Griswold, Director of the Center for Trade Policy Studies, Cato Institute.

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Falling Behind: Explaining the Development Gap Between Latin America and the United States (2/18/09)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the editor Francis Fukuyama, Professor of International Political Economy, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University; with comments by Norman Loayza, Lead Economist, Research Department, World Bank; moderated by Ian Vasquez, Director, Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity, Cato Institute

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A Service to the Economy: The Importance of Free Trade in Services (2/10/09)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Bob Vastine, President of the U.S. Coalition of Services Industries; Christine Bliss, Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Services and Investment; and Aaditya Mattoo, World Bank. Moderated by Sallie James, Policy Analyst, Cato Institute.

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In Search of Jefferson's Moose: Notes on the State of Cyberspace (2/4/09)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author, Temple University Law Professor David Post; Clive Crook, Chief Washington Commentator of the Financial Times and Senior Editor of The Atlantic Monthly; and Jeffrey Rosen, Professor of Law at The George Washington University and Legal Affairs Editor of The New Republic; moderated by Jim Harper, Director of Information Policy Studies at the Cato Institute

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Climate of Extremes: The Global Warming Science They Don't Want You to Know (1/28/09)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Patrick J. Michaels, Senior Fellow in Environmental Studies, Cato Institute; and Marlo Lewis, Senior Fellow, Competitive Enterprise Institute.

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Little Pink House: A True Story of Defiance and Courage (1/27/09)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring Jeff Benedict, Author of Little Pink House; Susette Kelo, plaintiff in the landmark Kelo v. City of New London case; Scott Bullock, Institute for Justice senior attorney who argued the Kelo case before the Supreme Court; Moderator Roger Pilon, founder and director of Cato's Center for Constitutional Studies

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Avoiding a Health Care Disaster (1/22/09)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Michael F. Cannon,Director of Health Policy Studies at the Cato Institute and co-author of Healthy Competition: What's Holding Back Health Care and How to Free It.

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Obama's Fiscal Policies: Ignoring the Global Tax Revolution (1/15/09)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Daniel J. Mitchell, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute; Chris Edwards, Director of Tax Policy Studies, Cato Institute; and J.D. Foster, Senior Fellow, Heritage Foundation

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Does Public Higher Ed Funding Drive Economic Growth? (1/14/09)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring George Leef, Vice President for Research, John William Pope Center for Higher Education Policy; Barmak Nassirian, Associate Executive Director, External Relations, American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers; Neal McCluskey, Associate Director, Center for Educational Freedom, Cato Institute; Moderator Doug Lederman, Editor, Inside Higher Ed

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The Dangers of Network Neutrality Regulation (1/13/09)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Timothy B. Lee, Adjunct Scholar for the Cato Institute and member of the Center for IT Policy at Princeton University and Jerry Brito, Senior Research Fellow for the Mercatus Center and Adjunct Professor of Law at George Mason University School of Law

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Shaping the Obama Administration’s Counterterrorism Strategy (1/12-13/09)
A Cato Institute Conference.

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