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Move to Defend: The Case against the Constitutional Amendments Seeking to Overturn Citizens United
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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 30, 2009
Featuring Daniel Griswold, Director, Center for Trade Policy Studies, Cato Institute; author, Mad About Trade; and William A. Reinsch, President, National Foreign Trade Council.
May 23, 2007
Featuring Sen. John Sununu (R, NH) and Sallie James, Cato Institute.
April 26, 2007
Featuring: David Orden,International Food Policy Research Institute; Clayton Yeutter, Former Secretary of Agriculture and United States Trade Representative; and Sallie James, Trade Policy Analyst, Cato Institute.
October 27, 2006
Featuring Patrick Messerlin, Director, Groupe d’Economie Mondiale, Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris; with comments by Daniel Griswold, Director, Center for Trade Policy Studies, Cato Institute; and moderated by Marian Tupy, Policy Analyst, Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity.
September 21, 2006
Featuring Rep. Jeff Flake, (R-AZ) and Sallie James, Trade Policy Analyst, Cato Institute.
August 31, 2006
Featuring Mike Johanns, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture; Cal Dooley, President and CEO, Food Products Association; and Robert L. Thompson, Gardner Chair in Agricultural Policy, University of Illinois.
November 9, 2005
Clayton Yeutter, Former U.S. Agriculture Secretary and Trade Representative; Cal Dooley, Former U.S. Representative (D-CA); Brian Fisher, Australian Bureau of Agriculture and Resource Economics; Daniel Griswold, Director, Center for Trade Policy Studies, Cato Institute