Cato Event Podcast

Americans in the age of COVID-19 are relying more than ever on digital networks to work, socialize, and learn—which makes safeguarding the privacy and security of those networks even more essential. The 2021 Cato Surveillance Conference brings together an outstanding lineup of academics, technologists, policymakers, and privacy advocates to discuss the most pressing topics in privacy and digital c...

Americans in the age of COVID-19 are relying more than ever on digital networks to work, socialize, and learn—which makes safeguarding the privacy and security of those networks even more essential. The 2021 Cato Surveillance Conference brings together an outstanding lineup of academics, technologists, policymakers, and privacy advocates to discuss the most pressing topics in privacy and digital c...

Americans in the age of COVID-19 are relying more than ever on digital networks to work, socialize, and learn—which makes safeguarding the privacy and security of those networks even more essential. The 2021 Cato Surveillance Conference brings together an outstanding lineup of academics, technologists, policymakers, and privacy advocates to discuss the most pressing topics in privacy and digital c...

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The Sphere Education Initiative is pleased to host a special launch event for the latest edition of Freedom in the 50 States ! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Cryptocurrency regulation sits at the intersection of multiple regulatory regimes: financial markets regulators and banking regulators, among many others, have asserted authority over certain aspects of crypto regulation, which has resulted in an overlapping and incomplete regulatory framework that has drawn criticism from both proponents and skeptics of crypto innovation. So, how is cryptocurrenc...

Since the 1950s, Americans and Europeans have struggled to reconcile different visions of European security. The roles of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the United States, the European Union, and European states have all been debated. In recent years, French president Emmanuel Macron has pushed for a thorough discussion on the goals of NATO, and a vision for European Defense, while...

How could Congress reassert its Article I mandate and restrain presidential overreach? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Join Dan Awrey (Cornell Law School), Albert Forkner (Wyoming Division of Banking), and Jai Massari (Davis Polk) in a panel discussion moderated by Jon Hill from Law360 on how banking regulators should approach crypto regulation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Join Chris Brummer (Georgetown Law), Katherine Cooper (Murphy & McGonigle), and Melissa Netram (FS Vector) in a panel moderated by Sarah Wynn from CQ Roll Call to discuss the CFTC’s role in crypto regulation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

America has repeatedly managed to escape earlier periods of factional antipathy, insider domination, and gridlock through its openness to a practice both simple and powerful: political innovation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Panel 4: Helicopter Money and Fiscal QE William Nelson , Executive Vice President and Chief Economist, Bank Policy Institute Robert C. Hockett , Edward Cornell Professor of Law, Cornell Law School Frances Coppola , Columnist, CoinDesk Kevin Dowd , Professor of Finance and Economics, Durham University Business School Moderated by Edward Luce , US National Editor, Financial Times Full Event: https:...

Panel 3: An Expanded Fed Mandate? Otmar Issing , President, Center for Financial Studies at Goethe University, Frankfurt, and former Chief Economist at the European Central Bank Karen Petrou , Managing Partner, Federal Financial Analytics Scott Sumner , Ralph G. Hawtrey Chair of Monetary Policy, Mercatus Center, George Mason University Moderated by Jeanna Smialek , Federal Reserve and Economics Re...

Luncheon Address: Populism and Central Banks Barry Eichengreen , George C. Pardee and Helen N. Pardee Professor of Economics and Political Science, University of California, Berkeley Full Event: https://www.cato.org/events/39th-annual-monetary-conference Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Panel 2: Fiscal Dominance and the Return of Inflation John H. Cochrane , Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University Fernando M. Martin , Assistant Vice President, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Mark Sobel , U.S. Chairman, Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum David Beckworth , Senior Research Fellow, Mercatus Center, George Mason University Moderated by Greg Ip , Chief...

Panel 1: The Populist Challenge to Fed Independence Charles Goodhart , Emeritus Professor of Banking and Finance, London School of Economics Rosa María Lastra , Sir John Lubbock Chair in Banking Law, Queen Mary University of London Carola Binder , Assistant Professor of Economics, Haverford College Christina Parajon Skinner , Assistant Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics, The Wharton Sc...

Welcoming Remarks James A. Dorn , Vice President for Monetary Studies, Cato Institute Keynote Address Raghuram Rajan , Katherine Dusak Miller Distinguished Service Professor of Finance, University of Chicago Booth School of Business Full Event: https://www.cato.org/events/39th-annual-monetary-conference Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Do the nation’s highest officers, including the president, have a right to lie, no matter what damage their falsehoods cause? Does freedom of expression protect falsehoods? If so, are lies by candidates and public officials protected? And is there a constitutional path, without violating the First Amendment, to stop a president whose persistent lies endanger our lives and our democr...

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Domestic terrorism has been a part of the American political landscape since the rise of the Ku Klux Klan in the Civil War’s aftermath. During the turbulent transformation of American society during the 1960s and 1970s, a new kind of domestic terrorism threat emerged. Homegrown leftist guerrilla groups, such as the Weather Underground and the Black Liberation Army, carried out hundreds o...