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Move to Defend: The Case against the Constitutional Amendments Seeking to Overturn Citizens United
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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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In the new issue of Cato Policy Report, Cato President and CEO John A. Allison argues that the Federal Reserve is increasing the long-term risk in our financial system through both its monetary and regulatory policies. Also in this issue, James D. Gwartney looks at the incomplete “public choice revolution,” and explains how mainstream economics is leaving both current students and the general public with a misleading, false, and romantic view of government and the operation of the democratic political process.
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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.
February 18, 2009
Featuring the editor Francis Fukuyama, Professor of International Political Economy, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University; with comments by Norman Loayza, Lead Economist, Research Department, World Bank; moderated by Ian Vasquez, Director, Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity, Cato Institute
April 11, 2008
Featuring Daniel T. Griswold, Director, Center for Trade Policy Studies, Cato Institute, and Sallie James, Trade Policy Analyst, Cato Institute.
March 12, 2008
Featuring: Yon Goicoechea, Former General Secretary, Venezuelan Student Parliament; Gustavo Tovar, Author, Estudiantes por la libertad (Students for Liberty) (Caracas: El Nacional, 2007); and Gerver Torres, Senior Scientist, Gallup. Moderated by Ian Vásquez, Cato Institute.
June 14, 2007
Featuring: Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY), Chairman, House Ways & Means Committee; Rep. Jeff Flake (R-AZ); and moderated by Sallie James, Trade Policy Analyst, Cato Institute.
August 1, 2006
Featuring The Hon. Carlos Gutierrez, Secretary of Commerce.
March 30, 2005
Featuring Daniel T. Griswold, Director, Center for Trade Policy Studies, and Daniel J. Ikenson, Trade Policy Analyst, Center for Trade Policy Studies
March 24, 2005
Featuring the author Alvaro Vargas Llosa, with comments by Michael Shifter, Inter-American Dialogue, and moderated by Ian Vásquez, Cato Institute.
January 13, 2003
Featuring Regina Vargo, Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for the Americas; and Hernán Büchi, Former Minister of Finance, Chile.
November 19, 2002
Featuring the editor, Mark Falcoff, Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute; with comments by William LeoGrande, Acting Dean, School of Public Affairs, American University.
July 25, 2002
Featuring Rep. Jeff Flake, R-Arizona; Philip Peters, Lexington Institute; and Dennis K. Hays, Cuban American National Foundation.
February 8, 2002
Featuring Steve H. Hanke, Johns Hopkins University; Michael Mussa, Institute for International Economics; Kurt Schuler, Joint Economic Committee; and Michael Gavin, UBS Warburg.
October 18, 2001
Featuring the authors Roger Fontaine, Former National Security Council Official; Gary Dempsey, Foreign Policy Analyst, Cato Institute; with commentary by James P. Pinkerton, Syndicated Columnist and Aide to Former President George H. W. Bush.