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Repeal Day: Alcohol Prohibition and the Hypocrisy of the Drug War
Episode 45
The Cato Institute's Jeff Singer and Michael Fox mark Repeal Day by examining how alcohol prohibition and the modern drug war share the same destruct…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
NIH's Lost Mission
Episode 44
Cato adjunct scholars Terence Kealey and John Early join Ryan Bourne to discuss the pair's new Cato working paper Mission Lost: How NIH Leaders Stole…
9 months, 4 weeks ago
Superabundance at Thanksgiving
Episode 43
Is your Thanksgiving dinner more or less affordable this year? Human Progress's Marian Tupy joins the Cato Institute's Ryan Bourne to discuss the pol…
10 months ago
Energy Realism: Climate Policy Meets Actual Economics
Episode 42
Cato's Chad Davis and Travis Fisher examine the gulf between symbolic climate pledges and the real-world complexities of energy use — from EV carbon …
10 months ago
The Disaster Aid System: How FEMA Rewards Risk
Episode 41
FEMA was meant to help only when disasters exceeded state capacity. Yet today it functions primarily as a national subsidy machine, encouraging devel…
10 months, 1 week ago
The Shutdown That Solved Nothing
Episode 40
Romina Boccia, Michael F. Cannon, and Adam Michel break down the 43-day government shutdown driven by demands to extend temporary Obamacare subsidies…
10 months, 1 week ago
Don’t Do It, Mr. President: The Prospect of a US War in Venezuela
Episode 39
The Cato Institute's Justin Logan and Brandan P. Buck unpack the Trump administration’s shifting justifications for military action in Venezuela, fro…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
The Supreme Court’s $300 Billion Tariff Showdown
Episode 38
Can a president tax Americans at will under the guise of a national emergency? The Cato Institute's Scott Lincicome and Brent Skorup dissect the high…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
What a Long Shutdown It's Been
Episode 37
Romina Boccia joins Nicholas Anthony to discuss how the shutdown centers on demands to extend subsidies for earners making well above median househol…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
The $650,000 Question: How Steel Protectionism Fails
Episode 36
For 60 years, the U.S. government has protected the steel industry through tariffs, quotas, and Buy American mandates. Yet steel costs remain among t…
10 months, 3 weeks ago