Event Archives - 2009

October 30

Tricked on Our Treats: Time to Rethink the U.S. Sugar Program

Featuring Daniel Griswold, Director, Center for Trade Policy Studies, Cato Institute; author, Mad About Trade; and William A. Reinsch, President, National Foreign Trade Council.

October 29

Atomic Obsession: Nuclear Alarmism from Hiroshima to Al Qaeda

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.

October 29

Cato Institute Policy Perspectives 2009

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.

October 28

The Life and Impact of Ayn Rand

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).

October 20

The Case for Tax Competition, Fiscal Sovereignty, and Financial Privacy

Bringing together experts from around the world, Cato’s tax competition conference will address a wide range of current and newly arising issues.

October 19

Which Way Forward for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac?

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.

October 15

Driving in the Wrong Direction: The Sordid Details and Lasting Consequences of the Bush/Obama Auto Industry Intervention

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.

October 14

To Begin the World Over Again: Lawrence of Arabia from Damascus to Baghdad

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.

October 13

The Power of Memory and Acknowledgement

Featuring Vladimir Bukovsky, Author and former Soviet political dissident.

October 13

Not Invited to the Party: How the Demopublicans Have Rigged the System and Left Independents Out in the Cold

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.

October 13

How Government “Competes”: Grab Arm, Twist

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.

October 11

Cato Club 200

By Invitation only.