## Policy Perspectives 2011

**Friday, October 28, 2011 
11:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m. 

Waldorf=Astoria Hotel 
301 Park Avenue 
New York City**

Featuring: **Edward H. Crane**, President, Cato Institute; **Lewis Lehrman**, Senior Partner at L.E. Lehrman & Company, Chairman of The Lehrman Institute; **Scott Rasmussen**, Founder and President of Rasumussen Reports; **Jeffrey Miron**, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute, Director of Undergraduate Studies, Economics Department, Harvard University; and **Neal McCluskey**, Associate Director, Center for Educational Freedom, Cato Institute.

| 11:00 — 11:05 a.m. | **Welcoming Remarks** [Edward H. Crane](/people/edward-crane)*,* President, Cato Institute |
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| 11:05 — 11:35 a.m. | **Keynote Address — Taking the Pulse of America** Scott Rasmussen, Founder and President of Rasmussen Reports |
| 11:35 — 11:55 a.m. | **As Good as It Gets? Observations on the World Debt Crisis** [Jeffrey Miron](/people/jeffrey-miron), Senior Fellow, Cato Institute Director of Undergraduate Studies, Economics Department, Harvard University |
| 11:55 a.m. — 12:15 p.m. | **Spending on Education: Bad for Kids, Bad for the Economy** [Neal McCluskey](/people/neal-mccluskey), Associate Director, Center for Educational Freedom, Cato Institute [Download MP3 of Jeffrey Miron’s and Neal McCluskey’s presentations](https://cdn.cato.org/archive-2011/ppa-10-28-11-1-MIRON-MCCLUSKEY.mp3) |
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| 12:15 — 12:30 p.m. | **Reception** |
| 12:30 — 2:00 p.m. | **Luncheon Address — The True Gold Standard: A Monetary Reform Plan** Lewis Lehrman, Senior Partner at L.E. Lehrman & Company Chairman of The Lehrman Institute [Download MP3 of Lewis Lehrman’s presentation](https://cdn.cato.org/archive-2011/ppa-10-28-11-2-LEHRMAN.mp3) |