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Each week on Cato Podcast, leading scholars and policymakers from the Cato Institute delve into the big ideas shaping our world: individual liberty, limited government, free markets, and peace. Whether unpacking current events, debating civil liberties, exploring technological innovation, or tracing the history of classical liberal thought, we promise insightful analysis grounded in rigorous research and Cato’s signature libertarian perspective. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Congressional Dysfunction and Separation of Powers

24 mins; December 18, 2022

Time to Think Small: How Nimble Environmental Technologies Can Solve the Planet's Biggest Problems

18 mins; December 16, 2022

Criminal Justice Reform on Behalf of Workers

14 mins; December 15, 2022

Health Care and the New American Worker

17 mins; December 14, 2022

What Has Joe Biden Gotten Right on Immigration?

11 mins; December 13, 2022

Occupational Licensing and the Private Market Actors Who Make the Rules

10 mins; December 12, 2022

Government Impediments to Lower Cost of Living

12 mins; December 09, 2022

Keeping North Carolina’s Housing Affordable

8 mins; December 08, 2022

From Federal Spending Spree to Congressional Lame Duck

15 mins; December 07, 2022

Housing for the New American Worker

11 mins; December 06, 2022

On A Matter of $8000 Stolen by the Government

12 mins; December 05, 2022

Smashing the Liquor Machine

20 mins; December 02, 2022

God in Commerce

22 mins; December 01, 2022

Challenges to Donor Privacy New and Old

11 mins; November 30, 2022

Transportation and the New American Worker

9 mins; November 29, 2022

North Korea’s Missile Tests a Regular Source of Anxiety

11 mins; November 27, 2022

Iran's Struggle against Mandated Religious Practices

11 mins; November 26, 2022

Items on Americans' Ballot

16 mins; November 25, 2022

The Next American Economy

24 mins; November 24, 2022

Fire Suppression versus Forest Management

9 mins; November 22, 2022

Biden's Apparently Temporary but Also Seemingly Permanent Medicaid Expansion

9 mins; November 21, 2022

Empowering Independent Work

17 mins; November 18, 2022

How States Protect and Punish Political Speech

15 mins; November 17, 2022

Education and the New American Worker

20 mins; November 15, 2022

Lessons from Montana's Growing Pains

11 mins; November 13, 2022

Home-Based Business and the New American Worker

9 mins; November 11, 2022

Takeaways from Election Day 2022

23 mins; November 10, 2022

Empowering the New American Worker

19 mins; November 10, 2022

A Case for Limiting the Time and Term of Supreme Court Justices

36 mins; November 08, 2022

Prospects for Regulatory Reform in 2023

12 mins; November 07, 2022

Are Social Media Algorithms a Form of Speech?

18 mins; November 03, 2022

Conservatives' Time for Choosing on The One Ring of Big Government: #TeamFrodo or #TeamBoromir

10 mins; November 02, 2022

30 Years Later, Colorado's Taxpayer Bill of Rights Has Been Decimated

11 mins; November 01, 2022

Is Democratic Opposition to School Choice on the Wane?

12 mins; October 31, 2022

Suppressing Truthful Information about Judges Violates the First Amendment

7 mins; October 28, 2022

Big Takeaways from Large Declines in Student Achievement

8 mins; October 27, 2022

Rishi Sunak, UK Prime Minister

14 mins; October 26, 2022

The Low-Key Housing Turnaround in Auburn, Maine

16 mins; October 25, 2022

Resist the Urge to Suggest Jared Polis Is a Libertarian

8 mins; October 24, 2022

Is Kentucky’s Pension Mess Improving?

12 mins; October 22, 2022

Evaluating California's Progress on Poverty and Inequality

9 mins; October 21, 2022

Cato Files Suit to Stop Biden's Student Bailout

10 mins; October 20, 2022

If Some Jones Act Defenders Had Their Way, Cato Employees Would Face Treason Charges

14 mins; October 19, 2022

Fiscal Policy Report Card on America's Governors 2022

11 mins; October 18, 2022

The Municipal Financial Crisis

29 mins; October 17, 2022

How the Regulatory Sandbox Works for Utah

12 mins; October 13, 2022

Does the Regulatory State Fuel Populism?

9 mins; October 12, 2022

Ignoring versus Overstating the Tradeoffs Inherent in Crafting Policy

30 mins; October 11, 2022

Kentucky Gives School Choice Its Day in Court

11 mins; October 10, 2022

Biden Moves to Begin the End of Cannabis Prohibition

17 mins; October 07, 2022

U.S. and Europe Should Welcome Russian Draft Dodgers

8 mins; October 06, 2022

Will Inflation Ever Get Back to 2%? Does It Matter?

10 mins; October 05, 2022

Property Rights Fight in Sackett Returns to the Supreme Court

16 mins; October 04, 2022

Unresolved Questions Following the School Choice Victory of Carson v. Makin

18 mins; October 03, 2022

What Will Post-Pandemic Litigation over Government Emergency Powers Yield?

17 mins; September 30, 2022

Congress Wants to Subsidize (Some) Americans’ Savings

14 mins; September 29, 2022

California Ponders Punishing Doctors Sharing COVID ‘Misinformation’

11 mins; September 28, 2022

Will Banning Congressional Stock Trading Achieve Anything?

12 mins; September 27, 2022

The Vaccine Mandate Cases in Retrospect

19 mins; September 26, 2022

Another Take on West Virginia v. EPA

20 mins; September 23, 2022

Sourcing Flatware, Footwear, and Other Vital National Security Issues

12 mins; September 21, 2022

Team Libertarian on the Guardrails of Democracy

9 mins; September 19, 2022

Cloudflare's About-Face over Kiwi Farms

18 mins; September 15, 2022

The Fractured Schoolhouse: Reexamining Education for a Free, Equal, and Harmonious Society

15 mins; September 14, 2022

The Jones Act and the Price of Gas

8 mins; September 13, 2022

How the Fed Thinks about Inflation, Cryptocurrencies, and NGDP Targeting

46 mins; September 12, 2022

Russia Looks to North Korea for Weaponry in War over Ukraine

7 mins; September 09, 2022

Postal Banking: A Dead Idea Walking

8 mins; September 08, 2022

Is Biden's Big Student Debt Cancellation Legal?

10 mins; September 07, 2022

Liz Truss, UK Prime Minister

12 mins; September 06, 2022

What Can Presidents Take with Them When It's Time to Leave?

14 mins; September 05, 2022

Why Immigration Visa Backlogs Are Pushing This CEO and Veteran Overseas

15 mins; September 03, 2022

Inflation, Tangential Goals, and the Fed's Dual Mandate

11 mins; September 02, 2022

Jawboning over Social Media's Handling of Hunter Biden

14 mins; August 31, 2022

U.S. Policy amid Pakistan's Uncertain Future

11 mins; August 30, 2022

Mainstream Islam and Freedom of Expression

11 mins; August 29, 2022

Biden Announces Big Student Loan Bailout

16 mins; August 25, 2022

The Inflation Reduction Act Won't Quell Inflation, but It Will Boost Debt

19 mins; August 25, 2022

Are Cryptocurrencies Securities? Should It Matter?

14 mins; August 22, 2022

The 1619 Project Deserves Consideration and Criticism

11 mins; August 19, 2022

The Feds Are in No Danger of Making a Profit from Student Loans

13 mins; August 18, 2022

A Gay Bar and Some Polygamists Had a Fight over Zoning …

15 mins; August 17, 2022

That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore: On the Death and Rebirth of Comedy

43 mins; August 16, 2022

How Serious Are the New Claims against President Trump?

24 mins; August 15, 2022

Congress Chooses Mandates over Markets to Control Medical Costs (Again)

10 mins; August 15, 2022

Should SEC Set Environmental, Social, and Governance Goals?

17 mins; August 13, 2022

The Big Shiny Promise of Big Shiny Economic Development Giveaways

12 mins; August 12, 2022

When (if Ever) Should Former Presidents be Charged with Crimes?

14 mins; August 10, 2022

Social Media Fights over the Definition of ‘Recession'

18 mins; August 10, 2022

What Do New Conservatives Believe about the Economy?

20 mins; August 08, 2022

U.S. Job Openings Can Explain Border Crossings

10 mins; August 06, 2022

The Baby Formula Crunch Continues

9 mins; August 05, 2022

A Glimmer of Hope for an End to Qualified Immunity?

13 mins; August 04, 2022

Are Massive Federal Deficits Now Inevitable?

9 mins; August 03, 2022

Active Denial and U.S. Military Strategy in Asia

13 mins; August 02, 2022

How the Academy Rehabilitated Karl Marx

10 mins; August 01, 2022

Do Administrative Courts Deliver Due Process?

22 mins; July 29, 2022

Is Fair Trade Coffee Effective at Helping Low-Income Farmers?

15 mins; July 28, 2022

Does the Fed's Dual Mandate Primarily Serves the Fed?

12 mins; July 27, 2022

Occupational Licensing Reform and Family Flexibility

11 mins; July 26, 2022

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