Cato Daily Podcast

Cato Daily Podcast

The Cato Daily Podcast allows Cato Institute scholars and other commenters to discuss relevant news and libertarian thought in a conversational, informal manner. Hosted by Caleb O. Brown. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Don't Freeze Technological Advancement to Stem AI

June 5, 2024 • 13 mins
Slowing or freezing technological advancement could be devastating for the many benefits that artificial intelligence can bring to a wide variety of problems we face. Jack Solowey and Jennifer Huddleston explain what's at stake.


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Clawing Back Emergency Executive Authorities

June 4, 2024 • 22 mins
Presidents of both parties have been handed – decade over decade – a growing list of powers to be only unlocked in the event of an emergency, but those powers rarely get reviewed on a consistent basis. What's a better path for handing over and taking back emergency power? Satya Thallam of Americans for Responsible Innovation comments.


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Social Movements and Profit Opportunities

June 1, 2024 • 12 mins
Serving the underserved is a well-established path to profits for entrepreneurs and acceptance for minority populations. Economist Nathan Goodman explains.


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Donald Trump Convicted

May 31, 2024 • 12 mins
Former President Donald Trump has been convicted on felony charges of falsifying business records to conceal crimes. Cato's Clark Neily discusses the trial in the context of how criminal prosecutions work generally.


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What Impedes Social Mobility?

May 31, 2024 • 12 mins
Social mobility means helping people improve their prospects for creating and building long-term wealth. What stands in the way? The Archbridge Institute's Gonzalo Schwarz discusses what he's learned.


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Assessing the Intelligence Risks of Chinese-Made Drones

May 29, 2024 • 14 mins
Should Congress take steps to ban certain foreign-made drones that, despite being owned and used by Americans in a wide variety of helpful ways, could be sending sensitive data to antagonistic foreign governments? Will Duffield discusses the state of play.


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Trump, RFK Jr., and the Libertarian Party

May 28, 2024 • 12 mins

Two notably illiberal politicians headlined at the Libertarian Party's convention over the weekend. What does it reveal about the brand of libertarianism advanced by the LP? Aaron Steelman and Andy Craig comment.

Related: “Trump is hardly libertarian. But neither is today’s Libertarian Party.” By Peter Goettler, The Washington Post, May 23, 2024


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New Leadership in Taiwan as China Threat Looms

May 27, 2024 • 16 mins
Will a new president in Taiwan mean a greater focus on defending against a potential Chinese attack? Eric Gomez comments.


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How the ‘Open Fields Doctrine’ Nullifies the Fourth Amendment

May 25, 2024 • 15 mins
How much US land receives Fourth Amendment protections under the so-called "Open Fields Doctrine"? Authors Joshua Windham and David Warren explore that issue in a new article in Regulation Magazine.


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Marking a Century of Broken Immigration Policy

May 24, 2024 • 14 mins
Should the government prove you shouldn't be allowed to immigrate, or should individuals have to prove that they should be allowed to immigrate? A century ago today, immigration policy shifted from the former to the latter. David Bier explains how the change has implicated Americans’ rights.


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The Fatal Fallacy for Fans of CBDCs

May 23, 2024 • 9 mins
The notion that there can ever be a "level playing field" between decentralized, private cryptocurrencies and state-issued ones is entirely wrong. Nick Anthony explains.


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John Stuart Mill, Harriet Taylor Mill, and The Subjection of Women

May 22, 2024 • 11 mins
The contours of freedom advanced in The Subjection of Women apply to us all. The influence of his wife, Harriet Taylor Mill, in the work’s final form is hard to miss. That is in part why the essay remains a favorite of Libertarianism.org's Grant Babcock.


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A Guide to Content Moderation for Policymakers

May 21, 2024 • 13 mins
Humility is a good starting point for lawmakers seeing to understand content moderation. David Inserra offers a helpful guide to policymakers.


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J.S. Mill, On Liberty, and How Liberals Think

May 20, 2024 • 13 mins
Paul Meany of Libertarianism.org walks us through the importance of John Stuart Mill through his powerful treatise On Liberty.


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Congress Should Make No Law Setting Speech Rules for Universities

May 18, 2024 • 15 mins
In the wake of protests at many universities over the Israeli war in Gaza, what's the role for Congress to regulate? Unsurprisingly, it's not much. Cato's Neal McCluskey and Nico Perrino of FIRE comment.


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Confront Errors in "Pandemic Inflation"

May 17, 2024 • 14 mins
In David Beckworth's essay in The War on Prices, he explains what must be true for narratives of a pandemic-driven inflation to be true.


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The Wage Gap and The War on Prices

May 16, 2024 • 14 mins
The US wage gap between men and women consistently drives calls for deep federal intervention into the labor market in the name of preventing discrimination. Analyzing that gap more critically reveals far less clarity about its causes and potential solutions. Vanessa Brown Calder explains in her essay in the new book, The War on Prices.


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Rent Control: Another Bad Idea That Never Dies

May 15, 2024 • 8 mins
Rent control doesn't make housing more affordable. It makes affordable housing less available. Jeff Miron explains in his essay in the new book, The War on Prices.


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The Pink Tax and The War on Prices

May 14, 2024 • 11 mins
Are the prices men and women pay for similar products evidence of discrimination that calls for a heavy-handed government response? Ryan Bourne is editor of the new Cato book, The War on Prices.


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The Punishing Effects of Credit Card Interest Caps

May 13, 2024 • 9 mins
For the marginally creditworthy, mandatory interest rate caps on credit cards would end access to a convenient form of credit. Nick Anthony discusses his essay in Cato's new book, The War on Prices.


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