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| Title: |  Breakout Nations: In Pursuit of the Next Economic Miracles | | Date: |  Fri, 16 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0500 | | Download File: | http://wpc.0873.edgecastcdn.net/000873/a... | | Description: | Which countries will become breakout nations, maintaining high growth or exceeding expectations in the coming years? According to Ruchir Sharma, China, Brazil, Russia, and South Africa will all disappoint, while India has no more than a 50 percent chance of sustaining its good performance. Two Muslim democracies, Turkey and Indonesia, have strong credentials to become the next breakout nations. In Europe, the top candidates are Poland and the Czech Republic. The United States, despite current problems, retains enough innovation and entrepreneurship to beat expectations. |
| Title: | The Future of the U.S. Navy Surface Fleet | | Date: | Thu, 15 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0500 | | Download File: | http://wpc.0873.edgecastcdn.net/000873/a... | | Description: | Naval shipbuilding is under close scrutiny as military spending starts to decline. At the same time, the U.S. Navy is altering the composition of its surface combatant fleet — eliminating cruisers, building more complex destroyers, and introducing a new class of small surface combatants — the littoral combat ship. What effects will these changes have on the future of the surface fleet? Will the mix of cruisers, destroyers, and littoral combat ships planned by the Navy be adequate to fulfill its missions? A recent report on the first littoral combat ship (LCS-1) raised some serious questions about the ship's range and durability. Others have noted the LCS's high cost relative to acceptable alternative platforms. Given that the LCS is supposed to constitute a third of the surface combatant fleet by the late 2020s, is it time to consider other options? The role of the LCS may also need rethinking. |
| Title: | Does the Middle East Need U.S. Aid? Implications for Israeli Security and Prosperity | | Date: | Wed, 14 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0500 | | Download File: | http://wpc.0873.edgecastcdn.net/000873/a... | | Description: | The United States gives Israel some $3 billion in annual aid conditioned on similar aid to Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and the Palestinian Authority. According to a study by the Jerusalem Institute for Market Studies, every dollar granted to Israel costs Israel between $1.06 and $1.39. The structure of this aid forces Israel to spend more than $3 billion on defense to maintain a balance of power in the region and ending U.S. aid to the Middle East would benefit regional security and prosperity. |
| Title: | John A. Allison Discusses 'The Financial Crisis and the Free Market Cure' | | Date: | Tue, 13 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0500 | | Download File: | http://wpc.0873.edgecastcdn.net/000873/a... | | Description: | Not only is free-market capitalism good for the economy, says John A. Allison, it is our only hope for recovery. As the nation's longest-serving CEO of a top-25 financial institution, Allison has had a unique inside view of the events leading up to the financial crisis. He has seen the direct effect of government incentives on the real estate market and how government regulations only make matters worse. In this provocative book, he discusses why regulation is bad for the market and for the world, what we can do to promote a healthy free market, how we can help end unemployment in America, the truth about TARP and the bailouts, and how Washington keeps entrepreneurs from building a better future for everyone. With shrewd insight, alarming insider details, and practical advice for today's leaders, this analysis is nothing less than a call to arms. Allison explains how government incentives helped expand the real estate bubble to unsustainable proportions, how financial tools such as derivatives have been wrongly blamed for the crash, and how Congress fails to understand that it should not try to control the market — and then completely mismanages it when it tries.Before assuming the presidency of the Cato Institute on October 1, Allison served as chairman of BB&T from 1989 to 2009, during which it grew from $4.5 billion in assets to $152 billion, becoming America's 10th-largest financial services institution. After his retirement, he served as a distinguished professor at the Wake Forest University Schools of Business. Allison received a Lifetime Achievement Award from American Banker and was named one of the decade's 100 most successful CEOs by Harvard Business Review. |
| Title: | What the Candidates Won't Explain about Outsourcing | | Date: | Mon, 12 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0500 | | Download File: | http://wpc.0873.edgecastcdn.net/000873/a... | | Description: | Contrary to the misconceptions so often reinforced in the media, outsourcing is not the product of U.S. businesses chasing low wages or weak environmental and labor standards abroad. Businesses are concerned about the entire cost of production, from product conception to consumption. Foreign wages and standards are but a few of the numerous considerations that factor into the ultimate investment and production decision. Those critical considerations include: the quality and skills of the work force; access to ports, rail, and other infrastructure; proximity of production location to the next phase in the supply chain or to the final market; time-to-market; the size of nearby markets; the overall economic environment in the host country or region; the political climate; the risk of asset expropriation; the regulatory environment; taxes; and the dependability of the rule of law, to name some.The imperative of business is not to maximize national employment, but to maximize profits. Business is thus concerned with minimizing total costs, not wages, and that is why those several factors are all among the crucial determinants of investment and production decisions. Locales with low wages and lax standards tend to be expensive places to produce all but the most rudimentary goods because, typically, those environments are associated with low labor productivity and other economic, political, and structural impediments to operating smooth, cost-effective supply chains. Most of those crucial considerations favor investment in rich countries over poor. |
| Title: | George Washington and the Dynamics of the American Revolution | | Date: | Fri, 09 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0500 | | Download File: | http://wpc.0873.edgecastcdn.net/000873/a... | | Description: | Robert M. S. McDonald is associate professor of history at the United States Military Academy and an adjunct scholar of the Cato Institute. He is a graduate of the University of Virginia, Oxford University, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he earned his Ph.D. A specialist on Thomas Jefferson and the early American republic, he has published several essays and articles in journals such as The Historian, Southern Cultures, and the Journal of the Early Republic. He is editor of Thomas Jefferson's Military Academy: Founding West Point (University of Virginia Press, 2004) and Light & Liberty: Thomas Jefferson and the Power of Knowledge (University of Virginia Press, forthcoming). He is completing a book to be titled Confounding Father: Thomas Jefferson and the Politics of Personality. He lives in Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York, with his wife, Christine, and their children Jefferson and Grace.This speech was delivered at Cato University on August 1, 2012. |
| Title: | Matt Kibbe of Freedomworks Discusses the Tea Party Movement | | Date: | Wed, 17 Oct 2012 13:57:17 -0400 | | Download File: | http://wpc.0873.edgecastcdn.net/000873/a... | | Description: | http://www.cato.org/event.php?eventid=9181 (http://www.cato.org/event.php?eventid=9181)The American enterprise system grew to be exceptional because of the principles on which it was built — individual freedom, decentralized knowledge, and accountable, constitutionally limited government. But, says Matt Kibbe, politicians in Washington have systematically replaced the dispersed genius of America with top-down dictates and expensive schemes designed to expand the power of insiders and protect the privileged positions of politicians, bureaucrats, and their cronies. In his new book, Kibbe proposes a different path. "Decentralized freedom" can return America to its founding values by breaking up centralized government's monopoly on power and returning it to where it belongs: with We the People. Kibbe exposes the privileged collusion of Washington insiders and maps out a proven plan for how to return power from the self-appointed "experts" back to the people. Kibbe was dubbed by Newsweek "one of the Tea Party's masterminds." Please join us for a fresh and exciting look at past and coming changes in American politics. |
| Title: | Foreign Policy and the American Constitution | | Date: | Tue, 02 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0400 | | Download File: | http://wpc.0873.edgecastcdn.net/000873/a... | | Description: | Malou Innocent is a Foreign Policy Analyst at the Cato Institute. She is a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, and her primary research interests include Middle East and Persian Gulf security issues and U.S. foreign policy toward Pakistan, Afghanistan, and China. She has appeared as a guest analyst on CNN, BBC News, Fox News Channel, Al Jazeera, Voice of America, CNBC Asia, and Reuters. Innocent has published reviews and articles on national security and international affairs in journals such as Survival, Congressional Quarterly, and Harvard International Review. She has also written for Foreign Policy, Wall Street Journal Asia, Christian Science Monitor, Armed Forces Journal, the Guardian, Huffington Post, the Washington Times, and other outlets both in the United States and overseas. She earned dual Bachelor of Arts degrees in Mass Communications and Political Science from the University of California at Berkeley, and a Master of Arts degree in International Relations from the University of Chicago. |
| Title: | Amy Sturgis: Property Rights, American Indians and Reservation Socialism | | Date: | Mon, 01 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0400 | | Download File: | http://wpc.0873.edgecastcdn.net/000873/a... | | Description: | Amy H. Sturgis earned her Ph.D. in Intellectual History from Vanderbilt University. Her primary fields includeScience Fiction/Fantasy Studies and Native American Studies. Sturgis is author of four books on Native American and U.S. history as well as dozens of scholarly and mainstream book chapters, articles, and presentations onhistorical and speculative fiction topics. She has edited five books on sciencefiction and fantasy subjects. In 2006, Sturgis was honored with the Imperishable Flame Award for Achievement in Tolkien/Inklings Scholarship. Sturgis spoke at Cato University on August 2, 2012. |
| Title: | Daniel T. Griswold: Understanding Public Policy — A Primer | | Date: | Fri, 28 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0400 | | Download File: | http://wpc.0873.edgecastcdn.net/000873/a... | | Description: | Daniel Griswold is the former director of the Herbert A. Stiefel Center for Trade Policy Studies at the Cato Institute in Washington, D.C, and the author of the new Cato book, Mad about Trade: Why Main Street America Should Embrace Globalization. Since joining Cato in 1997, Mr. Griswold has authored major studies on globalization, trade, and immigration. He's written articles for major newspapers, appeared on CNBC, C-SPAN, CNN, PBS, and Fox News, and testified before House and Senate committees. Earlier in his career, Mr. Griswold was editorial page editor of a daily newspaper, the Colorado Springs Gazette, and a congressional press secretary. He holds a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Wisconsin at Madison and a diploma in economics and a master's degree in the Politics of the World Economy from the London School of Economics. Since 2012 Griswold has been president of the National Association of Foreign Trade Zones. |
| Title: | The Charter School Paradox | | Date: | Tue, 28 Aug 2012 14:51:55 -0400 | | Download File: | http://wpc.0873.edgecastcdn.net/000873/a... | | Description: | How public-sector-only choice can increase costs, reduce educational diversity, and undermine competition, and how those unintended consequences can be avoided.
http://www.cato.org/publications/policy-analysis/impact-charter-schools-public-private-school-enrollments (http://www.cato.org/publications/policy-analysis/impact-charter-schools-public-private-school-enrollments) |
| Title: | The Truth about Sequestration | | Date: | Fri, 24 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0400 | | Download File: | http://wpc.0873.edgecastcdn.net/000873/a... | | Description: | http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/the-truth-about-sequestration (http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/the-truth-about-sequestration/)A single-year cut to military spending isn't the devastating blow that defenders of the Pentagon argue. Cato's Christopher Preble, Benjamin Friedman and Dan Mitchell evaluate the prospect of sequestration's small cut to military spending.Video produced by Caleb O. Brown and Austin Bragg. |
| Title: | How Does the Federal Government Spy on Americans? | | Date: | Wed, 22 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0400 | | Download File: | http://wpc.0873.edgecastcdn.net/000873/a... | | Description: | http://www.cato.org/event.php?eventid=9173 (http://www.cato.org/event.php?eventid=9173)History teaches that government spying is naturally subject to abuse without strong oversight, yet only the tiniest fraction of electronic surveillance of Americans — the tip of a vast and rapidly growing iceberg — is meaningfully visible to Congress, let alone the general public. Under the controversial FISA (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act) Amendments Act of 2008, set to expire at the end of the year, the National Security Agency is empowered to vacuum up the international communications of Americans under sweeping authorizations that dispense with the need for individual warrants. Despite reports of large-scale overcollection of Americans' e-mails and phone calls, including purely domestic traffic, the NSA has brazenly refused to give Congress any estimate of how many citizens' private conversations are being captured in its vast databases, and legislators have shown little willingness to demand greater transparency as they prepare to reauthorize the law. Increasingly, even ordinary criminal investigations employ off-the-books electronic surveillance techniques that circumvent federal reporting requirements. The public is informed about the few thousand wiretaps authorized every year but remains largely in the dark about newer and far more prevalent techniques, such as the routine use of cell phones as sophisticated tracking devices. |
| Title: | Reasons You Are a Libertarian | | Date: | Tue, 21 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0400 | | Download File: | http://wpc.0873.edgecastcdn.net/000873/a... | | Description: | http://www.cato.org/event.php?eventid=9168 (http://www.cato.org/event.php?eventid=9168)While the basic tenets of libertarianism — individual liberty, limited government, free markets and peace — seem simple and desirable to a broad swath of society, many people hesitate to identify as libertarian or advocate for libertarian policy proposals. Such reticence often stems from questions about the philosophical, moral, social, or economic justifications behind a liberty-maximizing approach. Can social and economic order emerge when individuals pursue their own interests, or do societies need leaders to govern them? What would happen to social services and infrastructure in a laissez-faire environment? Would culture and prudence dissolve? Would the rich dominate the poor? Cato Senior Fellow Tom G. Palmer discusses these ideas. |
| Title: | Massad Ayoob Discusses 'Stand Your Ground' Laws | | Date: | Mon, 20 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0400 | | Download File: | http://wpc.0873.edgecastcdn.net/000873/a... | | Description: | Since the tragic shooting death of Trayvon Martin, Florida's Stand Your Ground law has come under intense scrutiny. Florida governor Rick Scott is presently forming a task force to reexamine that state's law. Critics argue that such laws have led to shootouts over petty disputes and have hampered police investigations with a sweeping grant of legal immunity. Supporters of the Stand Your Ground law say it does not apply to the Martin case and that such laws merely protect those who use a firearm in self-defense from prosecution and financially ruinous litigation. Massad Ayoob is a firearms trainer and author of "In the Gravest Extreme." He spoke at the Cato Institute April 23, 2012. |
| Title: | Risk Analysis in Airline Security | | Date: | Fri, 17 Aug 2012 12:11:49 -0400 | | Download File: | http://wpc.0873.edgecastcdn.net/000873/a... | | Description: | Last July the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the Transportation Security Administration must do a "notice-and-comment" rulemaking on its policy of sending passengers through Advanced Imaging Technology machines (aka "body-scanners" or "strip-search machines") and putting people who refuse the machines through a prison-style pat-down. The TSA is supposed to publish its policy in the Federal Register, take comments from the public, and issue a final rule that responds to public input. It has been a year since that ruling, and TSA hasn't even started the process. John Mueller discusses the TSA and risk analysis at a Cato Capitol Hill briefing. |
| Title: | TSA Flouts the Law on Body Scanners | | Date: | Fri, 03 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0400 | | Download File: | http://wpc.0873.edgecastcdn.net/000873/a... | | Description: | Last July the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the Transportation Security Administration must do a "notice-and-comment" rulemaking on its policy of sending passengers through Advanced Imaging Technology machines (aka "body-scanners" or "strip-search machines") and putting people who refuse the machines through a prison-style pat-down. The TSA is supposed to publish its policy in the Federal Register, take comments from the public, and issue a final rule that responds to public input. It has been a year since that ruling, and TSA hasn't even started the process. Ginger McCall of the Electronic Privacy Information Center comments. |
| Title: | Goals, Results of Libyan Intervention | | Date: | Thu, 02 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0400 | | Download File: | http://wpc.0873.edgecastcdn.net/000873/a... | | Description: | Some political commentators have called the Obama administration's intervention last year in the Libyan civil war an "undeniable success" and one of "the greatest triumphs and signature moments in Barack Obama's presidency." One year later, however, Libya remains in crisis. Cato Institute research fellow in defense and homeland security studies Benjamin H. Friedman evaluates the goals and results of U.S. Libyan intervention. |
| Title: | States Can Shut Down ObamaCare's Big Spending Plans | | Date: | Wed, 01 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0400 | | Download File: | http://wpc.0873.edgecastcdn.net/000873/a... | | Description: | Contrary to popular myth, states are under no obligation to expand Medicaid or create a health insurance exchange, and they should refuse to do either. That from Michael F. Cannon, director of health policy studies at the Cato Institute. He argues that the costs to the private sector will be significant if states agree to create exchanges. |
| Title: | Obama's "Elizabeth Warren Moment" | | Date: | Tue, 31 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0400 | | Download File: | http://wpc.0873.edgecastcdn.net/000873/a... | | Description: | When President Obama talks about Americans "doing things together," as he did in Roanoke last week, his vision typically refers to large-scale government-directed projects. Though it's true that people work together all the time to improve their lots, civil society is the more typical venue for achieving those results. Cato Institute research fellow and libertarianism.org editor Aaron Ross Powell talks about Obama's "Elizabeth Warren moment." |
| Title: | Randy Barnett Evaluates the Supreme Court's ObamaCare Ruling | | Date: | Mon, 30 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0400 | | Download File: | http://wpc.0873.edgecastcdn.net/000873/a... | | Description: | In a complex decision, the Supreme Court has ruled that the individual mandate component of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is constitutional under Congress's taxing power. What is left of the idea that the Constitution creates a government of limited powers? What does this case-of-the-century mean for both the Constitution and our health care system and what are next steps for Congress? Cato Institute Senior Fellow Randy Barnett evaluates the ruling. |
| Title: | It's Not Corporate Speech. It's HBO. | | Date: | Wed, 25 Jul 2012 10:42:41 -0400 | | Download File: | http://wpc.0873.edgecastcdn.net/000873/a... | | Description: | Aaron Sorkin's new show, Newsroom, attempts to thread the needle in drawing a false distinction between media corporations and other corporations that might also want to speak about politics. John Samples, director of the Cato Institute's Center for Representative Government, comments on the show and its misconceptions about the Citizens United Supreme Court ruling.Video produced by Caleb O. Brown and Austin Bragg. |
| Title: | Evaluating the ObamaCare Ruling | | Date: | Thu, 19 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0400 | | Download File: | http://wpc.0873.edgecastcdn.net/000873/a... | | Description: | The Supreme Court has upheld much of the Affordable Care Act, but the manner in which the majority made its ruling may make this a "constitutional moment" that ultimately changes how we think about the Constitution. Cato Institute senior fellow Randy E. Barnett comments on the ruling.Video produced by Caleb O. Brown, Austin Bragg and Evan Banks. |
| Title: | ObamaCare and the States | | Date: | Tue, 17 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0400 | | Download File: | http://wpc.0873.edgecastcdn.net/000873/a... | | Description: | However the Supreme Court rules on ObamaCare, states have the opportunity to lead the way in freeing the American health care marketplace. Leah Vukmir, a state senator from Wisconsin, discusses how the federal government and state governments can get out of the way of health care decisions.Video produced by Caleb O. Brown, Austin Bragg and Evan Banks. |
| Title: | The Future of Citizens United | | Date: | Mon, 16 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0400 | | Download File: | http://wpc.0873.edgecastcdn.net/000873/a... | | Description: | The Supreme Court summarily rejected a claim that the First Amendment didn't apply to Montana's prohibitions on corporate spending on political speech. The Cato Institute's John Samples comments on the future of free political speech given the continued challenges to the holdings of Citizens United.Video produced by Caleb O. Brown, Austin Bragg and Evan Banks. |
| Title: | The First Amendment and Knox v. SEIU | | Date: | Fri, 13 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0400 | | Download File: | http://wpc.0873.edgecastcdn.net/000873/a... | | Description: | Unions cannot simply take resources from nonmembers and devote them to certain political activities. That from the U.S. Supreme Court today. Trevor Burrus, a legal associate at the Cato Institute, evaluates the court's decision.Video produced by Caleb O. Brown, Austin Bragg and Evan Banks. |
| Title: | Another ObamaCare Fatal Flaw | | Date: | Mon, 02 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0400 | | Download File: | http://wpc.0873.edgecastcdn.net/000873/a... | | Description: | The President's health care law does not, as it turns out, empower the IRS to punish employers for failing to provide workers with government-approved health insurance when the state in question has refused to create its own state-based health insurance exchange. The IRS, however, is moving ahead without Congressional authorization. Jonathan Adler, a professor of law at Case Western Reserve University, offers his thoughts.Video produced by Caleb O. Brown and Austin Bragg. |
| Title: | Obama's Temporary, Tepid Immigration Fix | | Date: | Fri, 29 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0400 | | Download File: | http://wpc.0873.edgecastcdn.net/000873/a... | | Description: | A new Obama Administration plan would allow young illegal immigrants to stay in the United States if they:- Came to the United States under the age of 16.- Have continuously resided in the United States for a least five years preceding the date of the memorandum and are present in the United States on the date of the memorandum.- Are currently in school, have graduated from high school, have obtained a general education development certificate, or are an honorably discharged veteran of the Coast Guard or Armed Forces of the United States.- Have not been convicted of a felony offense, a significant misdemeanor offense, multiple misdemeanor offenses, or otherwise poses a threat to national security or public safety.- Are not above the age of 30.Cato Institute policy analyst Alex Nowrasteh examines the shift in policy.Video produced by Caleb O. Brown, Austin Bragg and Evan Banks. |
| Title: | Escaping Obama's Better War | | Date: | Thu, 28 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0400 | | Download File: | http://wpc.0873.edgecastcdn.net/000873/a... | | Description: | President Obama called Afghanistan "the good war." Now some lawmakers want to exit as quickly as possible. Malou Innocent, a foreign policy analyst at the Cato Institute, offers her thoughts on Afghanistan after eleven years, hundreds of billions of dollars and thousands of American lives over a country that has rarely ever been stable, secure or prosperous.Video produced by Caleb O. Brown and Austin Bragg. |
| Title: | Steve Kaplan Discusses CEO Pay | | Date: | Wed, 27 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0400 | | Download File: | http://wpc.0873.edgecastcdn.net/000873/a... | | Description: | Steven Neil Kaplan, the Neubauer Family Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance at the University of Chicago, Booth School of Business, will look at executive compensation. He holds a master's degree in applied mathematics and economics from Harvard College and a PhD in business economics from Harvard University. Kaplan conducts research on issues in private equity, venture capital, entrepreneurial finance, corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, and corporate finance. He has published papers in a number of academic and business journals. He has testified to the U.S. Senate Finance Committee and the U.S. House Financial Services Committee about his research. Kaplan is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and an associate editor of the Journal of Finance and the Journal of Financial Economics. |
| Title: | Musical Chairs in the EuroZone | | Date: | Tue, 26 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0400 | | Download File: | http://wpc.0873.edgecastcdn.net/000873/a... | | Description: | The EuroZone slide looks like a big game of musical chairs. The song is over. Now everyone is scrambling for a place to sit. Cato Institute senior fellow Jeffrey A. Miron offers his thoughts.Video produced by Caleb O. Brown and Austin Bragg. |
| Title: | Randal O'Toole Discusses Refinancing Highways | | Date: | Fri, 22 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0400 | | Download File: | http://wpc.0873.edgecastcdn.net/000873/a... | | Description: | Amidst congressional debate over the future of federal surface transportation funding, one fact stands out: the gasoline tax is increasingly less viable as a source of highway user fees. Inflation, increasing fuel economy, and electric cars have eroded the amount drivers pay per mile by two-thirds since 1956, when Congress created the Interstate Highway System. What are the alternatives? What is the future of highway financing? |
| Title: | How Government Undermines The Dream of Homeownership | | Date: | Thu, 21 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0400 | | Download File: | http://wpc.0873.edgecastcdn.net/000873/a... | | Description: | The American Dream turned into a nightmare when the housing bubble burst, and people have been trying to figure out who to blame- Greedy bankers? Corrupt politicians? Ignorant homeowners? In American Nightmare: How Government Undermines the Dream of Homeownership, Randal O'Toole explores the forces at play in the housing market and shows how we can rebuild the American dream of homeownership by eliminating federal, state, and local policies that distort the free market for housing. |
| Title: | States Should Flatly Reject ObamaCare Exchanges | | Date: | Wed, 20 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0400 | | Download File: | http://wpc.0873.edgecastcdn.net/000873/a... | | Description: | Here are just a few reasons why states should refuse to create ObamaCare Exchanges.Jobs. Refusing to create an exchange will block Obamacare from imposing a tax on employers whose health benefits do not meet the federal government's definition of "essential" coverage. That tax can run as high as $3,000 per employee. A state that refuses to create an exchange will spare its employers from that tax, and will therefore enable them to create more jobs.Religious freedom. In blocking that employer tax, state officials would likewise block Obamacare's effort to force religious employers to provide coverage for services they find immoral — like contraception, pharmaceutical abortions, and sterilization.The federal debt. Refusing to create exchanges would also reduce the federal debt, because it would prevent the Obama administration from doling out billions of dollars in subsidies to private insurance companies.The U.S. Constitution. The Obama administration has indicated that it might try to tax employers and hand out those subsidies anyway — even in states that don't create an exchange, and even though neither Obamacare nor any other federal law gives it the power to do so. If that happens, the fact that a state has refused to create an exchange would give every large employer in the state — including the state government itself — the ability to go to court to block the administration's attempt to usurp Congress's legislative powers.A lower state tax burden. States that opt to create an exchange can expect to pay anywhere from $10 million to $100 million per year to run it. But if states refuse, Obamacare says the federal government must pay to create one. Why should states pay for something that the federal government is giving away?Bye-bye, Obamacare. That is, if the feds can create an exchange at all. The Obama administration has admitted it doesn't have the money — and good luck getting any such funding through the GOP-controlled House. Moreover, without state-run exchanges, the feds can't subsidize private insurance companies. That by itself could cause Obamacare to collapse.Michael F. Cannon is the director of Health Policy Studies at the Cato Institute. Video Produced by Caleb O. Brown and Austin Bragg. |
| Title: | Elizabeth Price Foley Discusses the Tea Party Movement | | Date: | Tue, 19 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0400 | | Download File: | http://wpc.0873.edgecastcdn.net/000873/a... | | Description: | With the 2012 elections before us, we've seen much speculation about whether the Tea Party will repeat the crucial role it played in the 2010 elections. Focusing on three principles—limited government, unapologetic U.S. sovereignty, and constitutional originalism — Elizabeth Price Foley's new book addresses that question, and more, head on. As George Will put it, "at last, someone conversant with the large issues now roiling contemporary American politics has taken the Tea Party seriously and concluded that it is intellectually substantial and politically constructive." |
| Title: | James Bacchus Discusses Free Trade | | Date: | Fri, 15 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0400 | | Download File: | http://wpc.0873.edgecastcdn.net/000873/a... | | Description: | Like international trade, cross-border direct investment drives economic growth. The value of cross-border investment flows has increased dramatically worldwide in response to liberalization of investment rules over the past couple of decades. But the trend toward liberalization has slowed, even reversed, in recent years. In April, the International Chamber of Commerce published the first revision in 40 years to its International Investment Guidelines, and the Obama administration published long-awaited revisions to its template for international investment agreements—the so-called model bilateral investment treaty. Will these developments help rein in investment protectionism. How will they influence cross-border investment flows? Can they help achieve the vaunted macroeconomic rebalancing? |
| Title: | Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) Discusses 'Ron Paul's Revolution' | | Date: | Thu, 14 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0400 | | Download File: | http://wpc.0873.edgecastcdn.net/000873/a... | | Description: | Ron Paul's two presidential campaigns have galvanized a mass movement for smaller government, sound money, and an end to our interventionist foreign policy. This genuinely spontaneous movement has featured blimps, "money bombs," the rEVOLution logo, and thousands of college students chanting "End the Fed" at campuses across the country. Somehow the message Ron Paul had been advancing for 30 years caught on in an era of financial collapse, bailouts, unprecedented deficits, and the two longest wars in American history. Brian Doherty, a senior editor at Reason and author of several books on libertarian history, has been covering Ron Paul since 1999. In his new book he looks at Paul's background, his early years in Congress, his 1988 Libertarian presidential run, his recent campaigns, the grassroots activists who joined the Ron Paul revolution, and indeed the election of Senator Rand Paul. |
| Title: | Mao Yushi Receives 2012 Milton Friedman Prize for Advancing Liberty | | Date: | Wed, 13 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0400 | | Download File: | http://wpc.0873.edgecastcdn.net/000873/a... | | Description: | Mao Yushi is founder and chairman of the Unirule Institute, based in Beijing, China. He is the author of several books and many scholarly and popular articles, has taught economics at a number of universities, established some of the very first non-state charities and independent self-help organizations in China, and is well known as a courageous champion of liberty. In the 1950s he was punished through forced labor, exile, "re-education," and near starvation for saying, "If we have nowhere to buy pork, then pork prices should rise," and "If Chairman Mao wants to meet a scientist, who should visit whom?" And in 2011, at the age of 82, he wrote a public essay that was published in Caixin online called "Returning Mao Zedong to Human Form". That essay earned him numerous death threats and a greater reputation as a voice of honesty and justice. Mao Yushi is one of the great libertarian figures in the contemporary world and has worked tirelessly to bring libertarian ideas and the experience of freedom to the people of China and the wider world. |
| Title: | U.S. Rep. Zoe Lofgren Discusses Immigration Reform | | Date: | Mon, 11 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0400 | | Download File: | http://wpc.0873.edgecastcdn.net/000873/a... | | Description: | The Winter 2012 issue of Cato Journal was devoted to the critical question of "Is Immigration Good for America?" In conjunction with its publication, we are pleased to present this special Conference, featuring presentations by many of the national experts who contributed to the publication, along with addresses by other key figures in the immigration debate.We are a nation peopled almost exclusively by immigrants or those who are descended from immigrants. More than any other major nation, we are defined by our immigrant past, present, and future. Yet there are significant incongruities between the immigration system we currently have and the one that would best serve our economic interests and our ideals as a free society.Zoe Lofgren is a Democratic congresswoman from California. |
| Title: | Tamar Jacoby Discusses Immigration Reform | | Date: | Fri, 08 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0400 | | Download File: | http://wpc.0873.edgecastcdn.net/000873/a... | | Description: | The Winter 2012 issue of Cato Journal was devoted to the critical question of "Is Immigration Good for America?" In conjunction with its publication, we are pleased to present this special Conference, featuring presentations by many of the national experts who contributed to the publication, along with addresses by other key figures in the immigration debate.We are a nation peopled almost exclusively by immigrants or those who are descended from immigrants. More than any other major nation, we are defined by our immigrant past, present, and future. Yet there are significant incongruities between the immigration system we currently have and the one that would best serve our economic interests and our ideals as a free society. |
| Title: | Interview with Mao Yushi, Recipient of the 2012 Milton Friedman Prize for Advancing Liberty | | Date: | Thu, 07 Jun 2012 16:43:27 -0400 | | Download File: | http://wpc.0873.edgecastcdn.net/000873/a... | | Description: | The Milton Friedman Prize for Advancing Liberty, named in honor of perhaps the greatest champion of liberty in the 20th century, is presented every other year to an individual who has made a significant contribution to advance human freedom. Mao Yushi, one of China's most outspoken and influential activists for individual rights and free markets, has been named the 2012 winner of the Cato Institute's Milton Friedman Prize for Advancing Liberty.
Mr. Yushi recorded a Cato Daily Podcast on May 3, 2012. Listen to the rest of the interview here: http://www.cato.org/multimedia/daily-podcast/securing-liberty-china (http://www.cato.org/multimedia/daily-podcast/securing-liberty-china).
Produced by Caleb Brown, Evan Banks, and Austin Bragg. |
| Title: | William A. Niskanen, A Life Well Lived | | Date: | Thu, 26 Apr 2012 00:01:00 -0400 | | Download File: | http://wpc.0873.edgecastcdn.net/000873/a... | | Description: | This video was presented at a memorial service for William A. Niskanen held April 12, 2012 at the Cato Institute.Niskanen's "Reflections of a Political Economist" is available free online: http://www.cato.org/reflections-political-economist/ (http://www.cato.org/reflections-political-economist/)Video produced by Caleb O. Brown and Austin Bragg. |
| Title: | Daron Acemoglu discusses Why Nations Fail | | Date: | Wed, 25 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0400 | | Download File: | http://wpc.0873.edgecastcdn.net/000873/a... | | Description: | Institutions — not geography, culture, or other factors — explain why some nations succeed and others fail. So says Daron Acemoglu in an ambitious new book drawing evidence from thousands of years of human history and from societies as diverse as those of the Inca Empire, 17th century England, and contemporary Botswana. Inclusive political and economic institutions, influenced by critical junctures in history, produce virtuous cycles that reinforce pluralism in the market and in politics. |
| Title: | Daniel B. Klein "The Improprieties of the Pretense of Knowledge" | | Date: | Tue, 24 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0400 | | Download File: | http://wpc.0873.edgecastcdn.net/000873/a... | | Description: | Adam Smith denounced the folly and presumption of interventionists, and Friedrich Hayek denounced their pretense of knowledge. Daniel B. Klein's new book attempts to renew Smith and Hayek and go beyond. His talk will focus on the hubris of interventionism, arguing that such arrogance hangs on maneuvers in government and "expert" quarters that pretend to make things simpler than they are. In particular, he will explain how economists flatten knowledge down to information and thereby shortchange the case for liberty. A candid understanding of knowledge makes us more virtuous and more libertarian.Additional information provided by the author: "Knowledge has its counterpart in action, and your actions emerge from your normative calls in personal policy-making. On those two steps Klein proposes to bring to the traditional Hayekian knowledge problem a prism of Smithian moral analysis. This approach perhaps sheds new light on the absurdities and profound quackishness of statist pretenses of knowledge." |
| Title: | Sean Trende on Democrats' Lost 2008 Majority | | Date: | Mon, 23 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0400 | | Download File: | http://wpc.0873.edgecastcdn.net/000873/a... | | Description: | How did the Democrats, who seemed unstoppable in 2009, lose their momentum so quickly, and what does it mean for the future of our two-party system? Sean Trende's new book explores the underlying weaknesses of the Democratic promise of recent years, and shows how unlikely a new era of big government always was. Trende persuasively argues that both Republicans and Democrats are failing to connect with the real values of the American people, and that long-held theories of cyclical political "realignments" are baseless. |
| Title: | Nuno Monteiro Says U.S. Should Not Antagonize Iran | | Date: | Thu, 19 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0400 | | Download File: | http://wpc.0873.edgecastcdn.net/000873/a... | | Description: | In the months since the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) issued its November 2011 report, which raised new questions about Iran's nuclear program, the debate in Washington, D.C., over Iran has grown hotter. Policymakers, politicians, scholars, and pundits are now offering wildly divergent predictions and prescriptions.While these open debates are an improvement over the Beltway groupthink that accompanied the run-up to the Iraq War, many questions remain about the Obama administration's policy. This conference examines the two central questions surrounding U.S. policy toward Iran: Can diplomacy work? What are the options if diplomacy fails? |
| Title: | Scott Rasmussen Discusses "The People's Money" | | Date: | Tue, 17 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0400 | | Download File: | http://wpc.0873.edgecastcdn.net/000873/a... | | Description: | For years, political observers have blamed voters for Washington's failure to balance the budget and reform entitlements, claiming that voters support a balanced budget in the abstract, but are unwilling to support the types of cuts actually needed to achieve that balance. But, in his new book, leading political pollster Scott Rasmussen says that Americans are willing to support the necessary changes if politicians provide the leadership required. Drawing on a comprehensive review of history, revelatory budgetary documents, and enlightening public opinion polls, Rasmussen lays out a step-by-step budget that could wipe out trillions of dollars from the national debt. |
| Title: | Jim Harper Discusses Cybersecurity and Federal Regulation | | Date: | Mon, 16 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0400 | | Download File: | http://wpc.0873.edgecastcdn.net/000873/a... | | Description: | With the Senate poised to consider comprehensive "cybersecurity" legislation this month, a bevy of questions need answers. Although it is difficult to secure computers, networks, and data, are government spending and regulation the answer? Are the cybersecurity threats touted in Washington real or trumped up? Should legal protections for privacy and other values give way in the name of "information sharing" with the Department of Homeland Security? |
| Title: | Jerry Brito Discusses Cybersecurity Threats | | Date: | Fri, 13 Apr 2012 13:48:57 -0400 | | Download File: | http://wpc.0873.edgecastcdn.net/000873/a... | | Description: | With the Senate poised to consider comprehensive "cybersecurity" legislation this month, a bevy of questions need answers. Although it is difficult to secure computers, networks, and data, are government spending and regulation the answer? Are the cybersecurity threats touted in Washington real or trumped up? Should legal protections for privacy and other values give way in the name of "information sharing" with the Department of Homeland Security? |
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