Cato Event Podcast

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 QEWilliam Nelson, Executive Vice President and Chief Economist, Bank Policy InstituteRobert C. Hockett, Edward Cornell Professor of Law, Cornell Law SchoolFrances Coppola, Columnist, CoinDeskKevin Dowd, Professor of Finance and Economics, Durham University Business SchoolModerated by Edward Luce, US National Editor, Financial TimesFull Event: https://www.cato.org/events/39th-annual-monetary-conference Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 BankKaren Petrou, Managing Partner, Federal Financial AnalyticsScott Sumner, Ralph G. Hawtrey Chair of Monetary Policy, Mercatus Center, George Mason UniversityModerated by Jeanna Smialek, Federal Reserve and Economics Reporter, New York TimesFull Event: https://www.cato.org/events/39th-annual-monetary-conference Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Luncheon Address: Populism and Central BanksBarry Eichengreen, George C. Pardee and Helen N. Pardee Professor of Economics and Political Science, University of California, BerkeleyFull 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 InflationJohn H. Cochrane, Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford UniversityFernando M. Martin, Assistant Vice President, Federal Reserve Bank of St. LouisMark Sobel, U.S. Chairman, Official Monetary and Financial Institutions ForumDavid Beckworth, Senior Research Fellow, Mercatus Center, George Mason UniversityModerated by Greg Ip, Chief Economics Correspondent, Wall Street JournalFull Event: https://www.cato.org/events/39th-annual-monetary-conference Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Panel 1: The Populist Challenge to Fed IndependenceCharles Goodhart, Emeritus Professor of Banking and Finance, London School of EconomicsRosa María Lastra, Sir John Lubbock Chair in Banking Law, Queen Mary University of LondonCarola Binder, Assistant Professor of Economics, Haverford CollegeChristina Parajon Skinner, Assistant Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics, The Wharton School, University of PennsylvaniaModerated by Allison Schrager, Senior Fellow, Manhattan InstituteFull Event: https://www.cato.org/events/39th-annual-monetary-conference Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcoming RemarksJames A. Dorn, Vice President for Monetary Studies, Cato InstituteKeynote AddressRaghuram Rajan, Katherine Dusak Miller Distinguished Service Professor of Finance, University of Chicago Booth School of BusinessFull 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 democracy?Perhaps counterintuitively, the general answer to each question is “yes.” Drawing from dramatic court cases about defamers, proponents of birtherism, braggarts, and office holders, Ross reveals the almost insurmountable constitutional and practical obstacles to legal efforts to rein in public deception. She explains the rules that govern the treatment of lies, while also demonstrating the incalculable damage that presidential mendacity may foster.Falsehoods have been at issue in every presidential impeachment proceeding from Nixon to Trump. But, until now, no one has analyzed why public lies might be impeachable offenses, and whether the First Amendment would provide a defense. Noting that speech by public employees does not receive the same First Amendment protection as the speech of ordinary citizens, Ross proposes the constitutionally viable solution of treating presidents as public employees who work for the people. Charged with oversight of the Executive, Congress may—and should—put future presidents on notice that material lies to the public on substantial matters will be deemed a “high crime and misdemeanor” subject to censure and even impeachment.Please join us for a lively discussion of an issue that could not be of greater importance. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.