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Cato Daily Podcast - Freedom Conservatives in 2024
What will/should conservatism look like after this election year? John Hood of the John William Pope Foundation comments.
Cato Daily Podcast - Economic Growth Is (Still) Underappreciated
The "degrowth" movement has many adherents, so it's worth emphasizing the manifold benefits of economic growth to the lives of humans across the globe. Justin Callais of the Archbridge Institute explains.
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Cato Daily Podcast - X (and More) Banned in Brazil
What appears to have started as a judge's request to have critical content removed from X (Twitter) has escalated into the country's highest court banning the service altogether. Cato’s David Inserra discusses how the US should respond.
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Cato Daily Podcast - Hard Data on States That Impose Big Regulatory Burdens
Getting a handle on the state-level regulatory burdens can identify inexpensive ways for states to step away from useless intervention. Patrick McLaughlin of the Mercatus Center details a new index aimed at that task.
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Cato Daily Podcast - Illegal Public Sector Electioneering against School Choice?
Fights over whether states should give parents a broader range of education options don't get much more pointed than public school officials leveraging state resources to advocate against public questions. Jacob Huebert of the Liberty Justice Center details two current cases of that kind of electioneering.
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Cato Daily Podcast - Prescribing Psychologists and Access to Care
What should we expect from the state-level advance of prescribing psychologists, non-physicians who are able to prescribe certain medications? Jeff Singer says their potential for helping patients is strong.
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Cato Daily Podcast - Harris’s Price-Control Free Plan to Control Grocery Store Prices
It's still just a wisp of an idea, but Kamala Harris's plan to ban so-called "corporate price gouging" assumes a lot (wrongly) about how grocery stores operate. Scott Lincicome offers his thoughts.
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Cato Daily Podcast - Parental Empowerment in Education Works for West Virginia
Parents in West Virginia have new education options thanks to the Hope Scholarship. It's also dramatically expanded education entrepreneurship in the state. Jessi Troyan of the Cardinal Institute explains what it means for other efforts to broaden the range of choices available to families.
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Cato Daily Podcast - The Parallel Handouts from Trump and Harris Campaigns
A large child tax credit is among a handful of remarkably similar campaign pledges from the campaigns of Kamala Harris and Donald Trump. Vanessa Brown Calder offers some analysis.
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Cato Daily Podcast - Police and Prosecutor Misconduct Protections and A Possible Path Forward
At Cato University earlier this month, journalist Radley Balko discussed a range of ways that public sector officials, particularly police and prosecutors, are largely able to escape accountability for misconduct. He offers at least one way to evaluate certain incidents to prevent tragic outcomes for Americans going forward.
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