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Move to Defend: The Case against the Constitutional Amendments Seeking to Overturn Citizens United
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April 25
Featuring Frederick W. Smith, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, FedEx Corporation; Andrew Morriss, D. Paul Jones Jr. & Charlene A. Jones Chairholder in Law and Professor of Business, University of Alabama; and James L. Smith, Cary M. Maguire Chair in Oil and Gas Management, Southern Methodist University; moderated by Jerry Taylor, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute.
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In the latest issue of Regulation magazine, M. Todd Henderson reviews last year’s brouhaha over health insurance and birth control. According to Henderson, lost in the firestorm about religion and feminism were larger lessons about health care policy and regulation. Also in this issue, Cato scholar Richard L. Gordon argues that new federal efforts to cut emissions are the result of longstanding legal and judicial mandates, not a sudden Obama administration push.
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Contrary to countless tales of its demise, U.S. manufacturing has always been strong relative to its own past and relative to other countries’ manufacturing sectors.
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More Bang for Your Buck
The Cato Institute tops a new measure of think tank performance in the United States, according to a recent report. Cato bested all other U.S. think tanks in the main category of “Aggregate Profile per Dollar Spent.” “I’m grateful to the Center for Global Development for showing that Cato gives its sponsors something I wish government gave more of to taxpayers: bang for the buck,” said Cato CEO John Allison.
October 31
Featuring Sen. Byron L. Dorgan (D-ND); and Roger Pilon, Vice President for Legal Affairs, Cato Institute.
October 31
Featuring Tom Morgan, George Washington University Law School; Richard Painter, University of Illinois Law School; and Stanley Keller, Palmer & Dodge.
October 29
Featuring Robert D. McTeer Jr., President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas; and Edward H. Crane, President, Cato Institute.
October 28
Featuring the author Charles Murray, W.H. Brady Scholar in Culture and Freedom, American Enterprise Institute.
October 23
Featuring Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.); Koleman Strumpf, UNC Chapel Hill; Raymond Sauer, Clemson University; and Robin Hanson, George Mason University.
October 21
The Cato Institute’s 7th Annual Technology and Society Conference
Featuring Hon. Christopher Cox (R–Calif.), Chairman, House Policy Committee; and Jeffrey J. Kovar, U.S. Department of State Chief U. S. Negotiator, Hague Convention, and Assistant Legal Adviser for Private International Law.
October 17
Featuring Dan Griswold, Associate Director, Center for Trade Policy Studies, Cato Institute; and Harris Miller, President, Information Technology Association of America.
October 15
Cosponsored with The Economist
Telecom & Broadband after the Market Meltdown: New Rules for A New World?
Featuring Dorothy Attwood,Senior Vice President, Federal Regulatory Strategy SBC Communications; Vab Goel, Venture Partner, Norwest Venture Partners; and Bruce M. Owen, Senior Fellow and Professor, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research.
October 9
Featuring Robert Novak, nationally syndicated columnist; and Hon. Andrew P. Napolitano, Senior Judicial Analyst, Fox News Channel.
October 3
Featuring John D. Graham, Administrator, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget; David Schoenbrod, Professor, New York Law School; and Clyde Wayne Crews Jr., Director, Technology Policy, Cato Institute.
October 2
Featuring Edward Hudgins,Objectivist Center/Cato Adjunct Scholar; Dennis Shea, Executive Director, Presidential Commission on the USPS; Murray Martin, Executive Vice President & Group President, Global Mailing Systems, Pitney Bowes; and Roger Kodat, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Government Financial Policy, U.S. Department of the Treasury.