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May 17
Featuring Benjamin H. Friedman, Research Fellow in Defense and Homeland Security Studies, Cato Institute; Spencer Ackerman, Senior Writer, WIRED Magazine; and Julian Sanchez, Research Fellow, Cato Institute; moderated by Laura Odato, Director of Government Affairs, Cato Institute.
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Negotiators in the latest round of U.S.-European Union trade talks should focus on liberalization goals that are attainable.
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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 10, 2008
Featuring the author Robert B. Laughlin, Nobel Laureate in Physics and Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Physics, Stanford University; with comments byThomas Sydnor, Senior Fellow and Director of the Center for the Study of Digital Property at the Progress & Freedom Foundation. Moderated by Jim Harper, Director of Information Policy Studies, Cato Institute.
May 7, 2008
Featuring Mark Sanford, Republican Governor of South Carolina and Jon Tester, Democratic U.S. Senator from Montana. Moderated by Jim Harper, Cato Institute.
July 20, 2007
Featuring: David Williams, Vice President of Policy, Citizens Against Government Waste; Andrew Moylan, Government Affairs Manager, National Taxpayers Union; and Jim Harper, Director of Information Policy Studies, Cato Institute.
March 12, 2007
Featuring: Jim Harper, Director of Information Policy Studies, Cato Institute; Tim Sparapani, Legislative Counsel, American Civil Liberties Union; and David Williams, Vice President of Policy, Citizens Against Government Waste.
January 18, 2007
Featuring the author Jim Harper, Director of Information Policy Studies, Cato Institute; with comments by James Lewis, Director and Senior Fellow, Technology and Public Policy Program Center for Strategic and International Studies; and Jay Stanley, Public Education Director, Technology and Liberty Project American Civil Liberties Union.
February 15, 2005
Featuring the author, William Eggers, Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute, with comments by Robert Atkinson, Vice President, Progressive Policy Institute, Stephen Slivinski, Director of Budget Studies, Cato Institute, and moderated by Jim Harper, Director of Information Policy Studies, Cato Institute.
November 5, 2004
Featuring Jim Harper, Director of Information Policy Studies, Cato Institute and Orson Swindle, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission.
