welcome everybody to the cato institute. i'm ian vasquez, vice president for international studies. here it is easy, but wrong to become pessimistic about the state of the world to think that everything is getting worse. we, after all, wired to focus on the negative on the possibility that danger is surrounding us. that's how humanity, after all, has survived for hundreds of thousands of years. and the news cycle emphasizes, disasters, catastrophes, misfortunes of all kinds, bad news sells politics itself frequently accentuates the negative, helping to shape our perceptions. but the world has changed dramatically in the past 250 years and the change is a story of tremendous and unprecedented human progress that is ongoing today and in which the facts speak. a single voice. humana has never had it so good. we living longer, healthier, safer lives on an increasingly bountiful by virtually any measure, human well-being has improved, as evidenced by large increases in life span. the collapse of world poverty fall in infant mortality rates, the rarity of armed international conflict. the

celebrating our 76 year anniversary this year as the oldest free-market think chain and a scholar at the cato institute of the freelance writer and as you mentioned the author of untold which came on 2019 the spring of 2019 that had a quite a bit of renewed interest over the past year plus given full shutdowns in the upsurge in interest in homeschooling and alternatives to school for tickly with school shutdown and delayed reopening plans. >> on the practical level have you been in the preschool level or the school-age? >> i am a homeschooling mom myself i have four children who have never been in school who range from 7 - 14 and high-end personal experience and reflection but i travel the country in writing the book and i visit other homeschooling families as well as learning centers and other alternatives that are really catered to families looking for something different customize for their children education outside of the traditional and school environment my undergraduate degree is in economics and i went to graduate school and education policy at harvard and that was where i became interested in

i am a scholar at the cato institute and the writer at forbes and author of unschooled which came out2019, spring of 2019 and had quite a bit of renewed interest this past year plus doing school shutdowns and upsurge in interest in homeschooling and alternatives to schools particularly with school shutdowns and delayed reopening plans.. >> on a practical level, have you been a teacher in a classroom where children of preschool age? >> i'm homeschooling mom myself, i have four children who have never been schooled and range in age seven to 14 so the book does tighten some of the personal experience and reflection but i travel the country in writing the book and visit other homeschooling families as well as self-directed learning centers and other schooling alternatives cater to families looking for something different and customize for the children's education outside of the traditional environment for school. my undergraduate is an heir to alex and went to graduate school at harvard and that's where i became interested in education choice and freedom and alternatives to school and edu

doug bondo is a senior fellow at the cato institute. he joins us from washington, d. c. thanks for joining us. so how much internal division is there in the white house over the relationship with saudi arabia? do you believe? well, there is a fairly significant split. the president came into office saying that he was going to treat a saudi arabia as a pariah. he flip that around, he clearly was persuaded by members of his staff that it was important to try to work the relationship and that they believed the saudis would be forthcoming on oil . what is happening now, i think, is shifting the power balance within the white house, back towards his initial stance. quite embarrassing for him, especially because it appears that saudi arabia is working with rock. so that is not only human rights issue. it's a security issue. and with that shift, as he say, what practical measures might be taken to express the white house, his displeasure for the most obvious would be for the white house to back away from arm safe. you know, the saudi arabia has been relying on that with its war

welcome to the cato institute and the floor is yours. [applause] >> thank you for providing legitimacy to what i do. i want to thank ryan and cato in general for a fantastic conference. a great set of speakers talking about the right topic at exactly the right time and you don't always get that. the pandemic did you a favor, i think the topic is right and i am really pleased to have the chance to discuss these variant -- of very important issues, what is the framework for economics and politics and the political economy of the united states. i have no idea what i'm going to say. i have struggled desperately to figure this out. but i thought as a matter of discipline, what is the threat from this nationalist conservative style of thinking and policymaking should be done relative to something, that's what economics is, a set of relative choices for i'm going to talk a little bit about well trodden paths which are the competitive economic model on which so many of us rely and a real bonus to speaking here is i don't do powerpoint, i don't do

anniversary this year as a country oldest free-market think tank, i'm also an adjunct scholar at the cato institute, frequent writer at forbes and as you mentioned the author of "unschooled" which came out in 2019 innerspring atonement team but had quite a bit of renewed interest over the past year plus given the full shutdowns and the upsurge in interest in homeschooling and alternative to school taken with against school shutdowns and delayed reopening plans. >> host: on a practical level have you been a teacher in a classroom or do you have children who are a school-age? >> guest: so i am a homeschooling mom isil. i have four children who have never been schooled who range in age from seven seven to 1e book does high in some of that sort of personal experience and reflection but i traveled the country in writing the book and visit other homeschooling families as well as learning centers and other schooling alternatives that are really cater to families looking for something different, , something more customize for their children's education. outside the to get of the traditional school environm

>> the cato institute. >> that the cato institute and its even than that because there's a second edition john and i because i was a publisher of it for cato. and don't forget the audio book. spectacular. i owe a big debt to cato because at the time i couldn't get a person to publish the book and here we are 30 years later. it's a classic which is what we call bucks a word nor for 25 years. >> they were so much money fromq chicago so it sold in the second edition sold quite well. >> i'd like to say if few things in the first t is about the book in the second is what we learned from the book t in the third is about the environment we are in right now. the first thing about the book is to get it, buy it and read it and it's not only readable in conference if it's the only thing like it. unbelievably until this book there was nothing to read of the of free speech up to social media. it's all here. medieval times there were occasional outbursts and very adjusting thinking only to be suppressed, the enlightenment a long history of seditious libel which reappeared again and again it's just a fa

this took place at the cato institute. this is about 45 minutes. i am delighted that we have been able to do it. i am thankful of the freedom trustees provided the resort for us to do this. before i introduce our final speaker, i will like to say thanks to the cato congress team and in the building staff here for their hard work. they kept us will fail -- well fed through the day. we have some fascinating panels and speeches, which recaptured the essence of the tumultuous political time we are living in. after this closing speech, i invite you all to continue the conversations over drinks downstairs. before we get to that, i am delighted to welcome -- to give this address which is entitled the national conservative threat to a free economy. the president and founder of the american action board. he is one of the most prolific writers in the writing space. in preparation of this event, i examined morning emails over the week before i was writing this. he covered topics of ranging of several others. each post was crisply written. doug has a extremely

>> marion tupy a senior fellow at the cato institute. >> what is an example you use through the book? >> remember, we buy things with money. we really pay for them with time. if you buy something you're like, i will go earn the money and then by this thing. we said, we buy things with money and we pay for them with time. we measure things in dollars and a sense. we can also measure things in hours and minutes. a pizza, for example, costs $20. i am earning 40 -- $40 per hour. the pizza costs 30 minutes. that is the time price. everything gets converted from money to time. that has four benefits. time has four benefits over money. the first benefit is you don't have to worry about making adjustments for nominal dollars in real dollars. it avoids the whole inflation issue. all of the cpi, all of these adjustments that we try to make as economists, to adjust that to some real number. you can avoid all that confusion. go straight to the time price. the second advantage is once you have developed the time price you can look at the time price of anything through history. what was the time pr

the second thing and on this topic i have more expertise than almost anyone that works at the cato institute. i think the government has often really limited capacity to understand problems and craft elaborate, creative solutions to them. i do not think any of you were surprised about that. but you have lived it less than i have. sometimes i would be in a room where there was a mathematical identity that people were arguing with. there would be something like in health insurance, we agreed on a certain coverage ratio that no more than 30% of your costs would be out of pocket. and people would say ok, now let's have a lower deductible. but if you have a lower deductible, you have higher coinsurance. i said once you set that up there very bold, those other two are just a function of a. -- of its. on that particular one, when we were trying to decide what the deductibles should be, i sat down with a friend of mine who was a colleague and we thought about it and cannot decide what we thought was in people's best interests. we just were not sure. and we were pretty educated and pretty good at it.

>> there goes my performance review, the cato institute. >> it is worse than that. second edition john and i correspondent -- i was a publisher of it. how could i forget? >> don't forget the audiobook. >> spectacular. i/o a big debt to cato. i couldn't get a commercial publisher for the book and here we are 30 years later. are classic which is what we call books that are ignored for 25 years. >> getting so much money from chicago. the second edition so far. >> i thought i would say 3 things quickly, the first is about the book, the second is what we learned from the book and the third is the environment we are in. first thing about the book is get it and read it. it is not only readable and comprehensive but it is the only thing like it. until this book came along there was nothing that took you from the beginning of the idea of free-speech up to social media. the ancient greeks, medieval times where there were outbursts of interesting thinking only to be suppressed. the enlightenment, the long history of seditious libel which reappears again and again. it is a fanta

>> a number of studies have been done by the cato institute and then repeated by "the washington postw york times" debunking the notion illegal immigrants commit any crime for that matter. i was curious, my lead authors were curious as well estimate the actual data said. we found out that the data was being absolutely misrepresented. they claimed native born americans can be compared apples to apples to illegal immigrants. texas doesn't collect data on native-born americans. that's in some other category which includes unidentified illegal immigrants. every year especially in serious crime categories, texas keeps finding more illegals in its prisons that weren't identified initially upon arrest. more and more illegals amongst the victor collinson texas when texas goes back and checks on people's immigration status. >> tucker: the cato study was a lie and yet as you said it was weaponized immediately by the usual wires to shout down anyone who said maybe we shouldn't have open borders. >> absolutely. it was a mischaracterization. it used to be a -- used to be entitled to your own opini

welcome to the cato institute. for another nurse continuing series of book forums this particular one is has been i've been eager to look forward to it for many months because i knew about this book for some time now. i knew about the podcast that came first with it. this is jacob machangama's free speech a history from socrates to social media, which is available. now. i'm been available for a couple of weeks and is getting a very strong and appreciative audience. i would say in the united states and we'll find i think it's audience in europe. also where these issues. so we thought it was great. we've known jacob for quite a while and we'd great to have a book form and and who better to have to have just a conversation among like-minded people with some differences then john roush from brookings. so let me give you what i'm going to do here is give a brief bio you may know both of these people from their work of both of our people and by the way, i'm john samples of vice president here at cato if you don't know me

[indistinct conversations] >> the cato institute also heard from former congressional budget officerouglas holtz-eakin.

>> the cato institute. >> it's even worse than that because the second edition john and i corresponded frequently because i was a publisher of it for cato. how could i forget that. >> don't forget the audiobook narrated by penn gillette. >> i hope they get to cato because at the time i couldn't get a commercial publisher for the book and here we are 30 years later . it's a classic which is what we call books that areignored for 35 years . >> it really sold and the second edition did quite well. >> i thought i'd say two things quickly, the first is about the book and the second is about what we learned from the book and the second is about the environment we're in right now. get it, read it. it's not only readable and comprehensive if the only thing like it until this book came along there was nothing that we that took you from the beginning of the ideas of free speech right up to social media is all they are, the ancient greeks, medial times where there were occasional outbursts of very interesting thinking only to besuppressed , the enlightenment, the long history of seditious libel w

this took place at the cato institute. this is about 45 minutes.

this point, everybody and i encourage them to speak and i've seen the results of surveys like the cato institute says that 62% of americans, that's almost two thirds of americans are afraid to speak out for fear that they will say something they shouldn't say. and i asked my audience, how many of you are afraid to speak up or say something right now in this show? you can't say that. how many of you are afraid to speak up right now? and it look like the wave at texas stadium. i mean, people to say, no, i listen, i'm scared to death, dog, don't follow me. i don't want to say the wrong thing. it's not that i think feel or behave in the wrong way. i'm just afraid i'll run a red light and the word police will get all over me. >> you know, by the way, could we be honest about this? i think a lot people feign that they're outraged. they're not outraged. if you're outraged by a couple of words, you need to grow up. and you know what? if you feel bad about yourself, go read my twitter feed and the comments that people make about me. you'll feel a lot better about yourself. >> there's my advice. stop bein

say thank you both so much and thank you to the cato institute for holding this amazing event. >> thank offered all for your time and i hope you enjoyed it. it was absolute lovely. one last round of applause. now it's time for food and drink. so, thanks again.

and media quite and law and crime network and he is the author of the welcome everybody to the cato institute. i'm ian vasquez, vice president for international studies. here it is easy, but wrong to become pessimistic about the state of the world to think that everything is getting worse. we, after all, wired to focus on the negative on the possibility that danger is surrounding us. that's how humanity, after all, has survived for hundreds of thousands of years. and the news cycle emphasizes, disasters, catastrophes, misfortunes of all kinds, bad news sells politics itself frequently accentuates the negative, helping to shape our

it's things like the cato institute in washington and other groups who just think these are private companies. we can't get involved. and i'm telling you, coming from the washington area, that's what you hear over and over are people who speak sensibly on every other issue when it comes to this. they have like a blind and i believe now we have to be like teddy roosevelt. i think it's time to break up the big tech monopolies. i sound like bernie sanders, but i think there's no other way around it. it's quite. yes, trespass, too. and the ideas are that this just two different things. this is exactly what's happening. i'll own your farmlands. i'll shut down your media, shut down your bank account. i'll shut down your social life. this is literally not a meme. i mean, this is reality next. this is the great quote, because this is what america used to be john f kennedy. we're not afraid to trust the people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies for a nation that's afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood. an open market is a nation of its people, and we, our governm

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and thanks to the cato institute for hosting this amazing event paul. so, thank you all for your time. hope you all enjoyed and thank you all to our panelists for absolutely lovely. that's what one last round of applause them. always looking to see and we're gonna go downstairs now for some food and drink and some chatting. so, thanks again.

and the left who will say this >> you are so correct, becky, because i have been talking to the cato institute- david was telling me, we are down an estimated 1.25 to 1.5 million legal immigrants in this country biden administration is doing a somewhat better john than the trump. >> rick, we could take the boot off the throat of the oil producers, couldn't we i'm saying that for one of our guests in studio that could help. >> we could, but we won't, joe just like immigration. immigration isn't going to get solved you know, it's like cancer research the problem with cancer research is it's how many billions of dollar industry. if you find a cure, what happens to the research? all these big issues that we've been dealing with for decades that our government officials on both sides don't fix, believe me, they're not stupid people. it's not fixed because they don't want to fix it steve, i agree with you. and i agree there should be litmus tests for immigration we should try to pick people that can come here and plug some of those holes hold you breath for that as well >> guys, stick around for a m

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>> marion is a senior editor editor at cato institute on human progress. >> host: one of the theorieshat you talk about what is it? >> example used throughout the book. >> first of all remember we buy things with money that we really pay for a time,e, right? we buy is something i've got to go earn the money to make them money and money and buy this thing. we buy things with money and we pay for them with time. can we measure things -- we couldn't measure things in dollars and cents. we can also measure things and hours and minutes. if pizza cost $20 and i am earning $40 an hour pizza cost me 30 3 minutes. everything then gets converted from money to time. it really has four benefits time has four benefits over money. the first benefit is you do not have to worry about making adjustments for nominal dollars in real dollars. you can avoid the whole inflation issue. the cpi and all of these adjustments were made as a communist to adjust back to some real numbers. you can avoid all that confusios just go straight to time. the second advantage once you thdevelop the time you can lookt anyt

the level of a global nuclear war. this is at least understood, and cato institute research fellow, et-carpinter, listen. ses tactical nuclear weapons in ukraine, the current war, no matter how terrible it is, will remain a bilateral russian-ukrainian conflict, a us attack on russian facilities completely changes the equation such a significant escalation means a war between two major powers armed to the teeth with both tactical and strategic nuclear weapons what starts even as a limited war between two nuclear powers entails a serious risk of escalation to thermonuclear levels, leading to to armageddon. surprisingly, supposedly well- informed experts. foreign policy ca n't grasp such an important distinction , washington's current proxy war is already causing alarm, but an outright war in ukraine could be a disaster for the american people. here, and ted carpenter, he is wrong only in one assumption that russia can use tactical nuclear weapons in ukraine in everything else, he is absolutely right, but, but in fact, the risk of uh nuclear esca exists, but it is not connected with russia, and it is connect

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one such legal challenge is from your friends at cato institute who fight for school choice expidcasion equality every day of then to be constitutionalists who realize in their words, forcing taxpayers to pick up the tab for other people's college loans is bad policy in case of president biden's order it is also illegal. nancy pelosi knows full well, it is in purview of congress to unleash this brand of irresponsible unwholly hell on tax payers, but she creeded to biden's order to seem cool at aoc 's white cloud party, this a bad idea, according to legal experts, it is an unlawful idea, this administration's ask forgiveness later policy is as i'm moral as it is unsound and bankrupt and endanger more americans, people have known that college is e expensive. why sign on the line for something you can't afford, a used maclaren would get you more action. should poor taxpayers who take two buses to work have to foot the bill for that as well? no. but frankly i would sleep better servicing the dai debt of mclarennites. no one was entitled to this, if you report can't afford school, get a job, save money and wait until

the government hosed. >> you they have, thankfully there are two plans that i know of 6.2% solution. that was developed by cato institute, and another plan this i found out about called plan for america. they would allow people to be able to keep their social security as it exists or opt who another voluntary system they have their own individual investment account. and i encourage people to look into those, but we mead to be clear, social security is not a retirement plan, if it was you would have money what you tied would be passed on, this is a ponzi scene scheme, it has diminishing returns year-over-year until we're at point where it is projected millennial gen-z will see a negative return on investment that is if they live to you know average expected age for their generation. if they die sooner, they mines they get less of their own money they were forced to pay into the system, it is a scam, if for privately operated system, everyone would be arrested for ponzi scheming it needs to be rolled to something voltrary and privately managed. the only people that will lose out are politicians who get to fearmonger, on t

cato institute with human progress. >> host: and wondered if there is that you talk about is time pricing. what is that? >> guest: okay, great. trent what is the example you use throughout the book? >> guest: first of all, remember that we buy things with money that we really pay for them with time. right? when you buy something it's like i have to go earn the money, take the money and buy this thing so what we said is if we buy things with money and we pay them with time, can we measure things and we can measure things in dollars and sense but we can also measure things in hours and minutes. if the pizza costs $20 and i'm earning $40 an hour, that pizza cost me 30 minutes. so that's the time price. everything that gets converted from money to time and it really has four benefits. time has four four benefitr money. the first benefit is is you don't have to worry about making adjustments for nominal dollars in real dollars. you can avoid the whole inflation issue. all of this cpi and what's the cpi and all of these adjustments that we try to make as economists to adjust back in some real numbers. you can avoid all that confusion. just go straig