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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.
The German Miracle: Another Look
The Wall Street Journal. September 8, 2010.
Ease up on the Gas Pedal, Bernanke!
Forbes. March 10, 2009.
We Can’t Spend Our Way out of This Quagmire
St. Louis Post-Dispatch. January 21, 2009.
Working Paper No. 2. November 9, 2010.
How Did We Get into This Financial Mess?
Briefing Paper No. 110. November 18, 2008.
Is the Gold Standard Still the Gold Standard among Monetary Systems?
Briefing Paper No. 100. February 8, 2008.
Policy Report. November/December 2012.
Making the Transition to a New Gold Standard
Cato Journal. Spring/Summer 2012.
A Gold Standard with Free Banking Would Have Restrained the Boom and Bust
Cato Journal. Fall 2011.
30th Annual Monetary Conference
November 15, 2012. Conference.
May 11, 2012. Book Forum.
29th Annual Monetary Conference
November 16, 2011. Conference.
May 29, 2012
March 5, 2012
November 16, 2011
March 3, 2011
