Cato Event Podcast

Jan 21 2025 2116 ep. 66 mins 4.6k
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Podcast of policy and book forums, Capitol Hill briefings and other events from the Cato Institute
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Fireside Chat with U.S. Representative Patrick McHenry, Chairman, House Financial Services Committee

Jan 21 2025 35 mins  
The privacy Americans should enjoy over their financial information has been in steady decline for more than 50 years. Regulatory frameworks, such as the Bank Secrecy Act and the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Consolidated Audit Trail, grant government access to Americans’ financial transactions. As financial services have become increasingly digitized, the volume of

Evaluating Central Bank Digital Currencies 2024

Jan 21 2025 76 mins  
The privacy Americans should enjoy over their financial information has been in steady decline for more than 50 years. Regulatory frameworks, such as the Bank Secrecy Act and the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Consolidated Audit Trail, grant government access to Americans’ financial transactions. As financial services have become increasingly digitized, the volume of

Financial Privacy under Fire: Protecting and Restoring Americans’ Rights

Jan 21 2025 74 mins  
The privacy Americans should enjoy over their financial information has been in steady decline for more than 50 years. Regulatory frameworks, such as the Bank Secrecy Act and the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Consolidated Audit Trail, grant government access to Americans’ financial transactions. As financial services have become increasingly digitized, the volume of

Financing Opportunity: A Conversation on How Financial Markets Fuel American Prosperity

Jan 17 2025 46 mins  
America’s financial system is inseparable from America’s enormous growth, productivity, and prosperity. And while it’s become popular to lay a host of ills at the feet of financial markets, many people would likely be shocked to learn just how many financial market deficiencies have been caused by harmful government policies. In their new book Financing Opportunity, 

Executive Orders That the Trump Administration Should Revoke or Amend

Jan 10 2025 89 mins  
Modern presidents have an extraordinary amount of power that they primarily wield through issuing executive orders and other directives with the force of law. Successive Congresses have gradually delegated much of their power to the president or stood idly by as presidents have usurped more power that is legislative in nature and effect. The president’s power is now so massive th

Understanding AI and AI Policy in 2024 and Beyond

Dec 12 2024 65 mins  
Over the past two years, much of the conversation around technology has been focused on artificial intelligence (AI). While AI may have increased in popularity and already been used in a wide array of products, we are still only just discovering many of its beneficial applications.AI is much more than popular products like ChatGPT and is truly saving and changing lives in fields li

Pain Refugees: Collateral Damage of the War on Drugs

Dec 11 2024 80 mins  
For much of the 21st century, public health officials and policymakers have blamed doctors for overprescribing opioids and causing the overdose crisis. In response, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued pain management guidelines aimed at reducing opioid prescriptions. Most states have codified them into law.Federal and local drug task forces have arrested doctors w

Human vs. Machine: The Promise and Peril of Artificial Intelligence in the Law Enforcement Context

Dec 11 2024 49 mins  
The development and deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) software for a range of applications has sparked intense debate over its implications for privacy and surveillance in multiple contexts. At the same time, police organizations argue that AI could help revolutionize and speed up police investigations by allowing for faster identification of crime suspects or missing or k

A Life for Liberty: The Making of an American Originalist PUBLISHED

Nov 21 2024 61 mins  
Georgetown University law professor Randy Barnett has played an integral role in the rise of originalism—the movement to identify, restore, and defend the original meaning of the Constitution. But Barnett’s path to becoming an influential professor of constitutional law was not an easy one. Starting from a working-class childhood in Calumet City, Illinois, Barnett’s unusual r

2025 College Free Speech Rankings

Nov 15 2024 61 mins  
This panel discussion will feature the researchers behind the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression’s (FIRE’s) 2025 College Free Speech Rankings, which offers insights into the state of free speech across US colleges. The panelists will share and explain the methodology used to rank schools, the contemporary challenges of measuring speech climates, and salient trends