Cato Event Podcast
Cato Institute
Podcast of policy and book forums, Capitol Hill briefings and other events from the Cato Institute Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Jan 13, 2009 • 1h 26min
Shaping the Obama Administration's Counterterrorism Strategy - Military Force: Proactive Counterterrorism or Provocation?
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Jan 13, 2009 • 1h 29min
Shaping the Obama Administration's Counterterrorism Strategy - Domestic Security: Risk Management and Cost-Benefit Analysis
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Jan 12, 2009 • 1h 34min
Shaping the Obama Administration's Counterterrorism Strategy - Assessing Terrorists' Capability to use Weapons of Mass Destruction
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Jan 12, 2009 • 1h 21min
Shaping the Obama Administration's Counterterrorism Strategy - Terrorist Groups: A Status Report
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Jan 12, 2009 • 34min
Shaping the Obama Administration's Counterterrorism Strategy - Day 1 Keynote Address
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Jan 12, 2009 • 1h 29min
Shaping the Obama Administration's Counterterrorism Strategy - Terrorism's Causes: Grievances, Goals, or Gang Membership
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Jan 12, 2009 • 1h 26min
Shaping the Obama Administration's Counterterrorism Strategy - How Overreaction and Misdirection Play into the Terrorism Strategy
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Dec 18, 2008 • 1h 1min
Do Government Spending and Tax Rebates Stimulate Growth?
President-elect Obama and other politicians are urging a massive expansion in government spending, ostensibly to help the economy recover. This Keynesian endeavor is supposed to boost growth by “priming the pump” by means of circulating extra money through the economy. Yet the notion that bigger government leads to more growth is theoretically suspect: any money that the government “injects” into the economy with new spending (or tax rebates) must first be borrowed and diverted from private use. The economic pie gets sliced differently, but it is not any bigger. The real-world evidence is similarly unfavorable to Keynesianism. Huge increases in government spending under both Hoover and Roosevelt did not help the economy during the 1930s, and more recent Keynesian initiatives—Gerald Ford’s rebates in the mid-1970s, Japan’s stimulus efforts in the 1990s, and President Bush’s rebates in 2001 and 2008—do not seem to have generated positive results. Please join Dan Mitchell of the Cato Institute and Steve Entin of the Institute for Research on the Economics of Taxation to review the theoretical arguments and empirical evidence regarding economic stimulus proposals. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Dec 17, 2008 • 59min
Obama's National Security Policy: A New Approach or More of the Same?
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Dec 11, 2008 • 1h 36min
Afghanistan Seven Years Later
Seven years after the invasion of Afghanistan, coalition troops are no closer to winning the war against the Taliban. With security getting worse and a violent insurgency raging in western Pakistan, can the "war on terror’s" central front be won? Will a heavier combat presence, endorsed by President-elect Barack Obama, provide a solution or contribute to the widening problem? Please join us for an in-depth discussion on this critical and turbulent region, and what the next administration can do to save this deteriorating mission. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
