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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
Speakers Gene Healy, Karol Boudreaux, Deroy Murdock, Dan Griswold, Monte Solberg (M.P.), and Tom G. Palmer among others.
October 29
Featuring the author William W. Lewis, Director emeritus, McKinsey Global Institute; with comments by Simon Johnson, Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management, and Research Department Assistant Director, International Monetary Fund; moderated by Ian Vásquez, Director, Cato Institute Project on Global Economic Liberty.
October 28
Featuring Peter Brookes, Heritage Foundation; Joseph Cirincione, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; and Ted Galen Carpenter, Cato Institute. Moderated by Charles V. Peña, Cato Institute.
October 26
Featuring Ilya Somin, George Mason University School of Law; John Samples, Cato Institute; Michael P. McDonald, Brookings Institution; moderated by David Boaz, Cato Institute.
October 26
Featuring Jim Harper Director of Information Policy Studies, Cato Institute and Former Rep. Bob Barr, 21st Century Liberties Chair for Freedom and Privacy, American Conservative Union.
October 22
Featuring Nick Gillespie, Reason; Shibley Telhami, University of Maryland, Brookings Institution; Robert Higgs, Independent Institute; James Robbins, Nationalreview.com; John Mueller, Ohio State University; and Ted Galen Carpenter and Brink Lindsey, Cato Institute.
October 20
Featuring David Green, MPAA; Markham Erickson, NetCoalition; Gigi Sohn, Public Knowledge; Mitch Glazier, RIAA; and Adam Thierer, Cato Institute.
October 14
Featuring Doug Bandow, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute; Fred L. Smith Jr., President, Competitive Enterprise Institute; and Frank J. Gaffney Jr., President and CEO, The Center for Security Policy.
October 14
Featuring Ben S. Bernanke, Member, Federal Reserve Board of Governors; Raghuram Rajan, Director of Research, International Monetary Fund; Kristin J. Forbes, Member, Council of Economic Advisers; and Leszek Balcerowicz, President, National Bank of Poland.
October 7
Featuring Sen. Chuck Hagel, Roger Ferguson, Vice Chairman, Federal Reserve Board and Gregory Mankiw, Chairman, President’s Council of Economic Advisers.
September 29
Featuring Sally Pipes, Author, Miracle Cure: How to Solve America’s Health Care Crisis and Why Canada Isn’t the Answer (Pacific Research Institute, 2004); John Goodman, Coauthor, Lives at Risk: Single-Payer National Health Insurance around the World (Rowman & Littlefield, 2004); with comments by Jeff Lemieux, Executive Director, Centrists.org; and Robert Kuttner, Cofounder and Coeditor, The American Prospect.
September 29
Featuring the author Olaf Gersemann, Washington Correspondent, Wirtschaftswoche; with comments by Steven Pearlstein, Business Columnist, Washington Post.