Biden’s Big Unnecessary Infrastructure Push | Cato Daily Podcast
April 1, 2021
Biden’s Big Unnecessary Infrastructure Push
Featuring Chris Edwards and Caleb O. Brown
The Biden Administration hopes to spend trillions of new dollars on public infrastructure, and while they’re at it, massively subsidize private infrastructure. Cato’s Chris Edwards says it’s utterly unnecessary.
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As misinformation proliferates online, the government increasingly attempts to curb its spread. In the face of strong formal speech protections, government officials have taken to pressuring and cajoling social media platforms to suppress unwanted content in the halls of Congress and behind the scenes. To what extent can the government’s power to speak be used to combat online misinformation before it becomes “jawboning” that violates the speech rights of private actors? The latest documentary from FedSoc Studios, Jawboned: Free Speech vs. Miss Information, investigates the distinctions between notification, persuasion, and unconstitutional government coercion, a key issue before the Supreme Court this term in Vivek H. Murthy v. Missouri and National Rifle Association v. Maria Vullo.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8QOL8skYzI
http://www.cato.org/libertarianmind
Cato Institute Executive Vice President David Boaz discusses libertarianism and "The Libertarian Mind" at the International Students for Liberty Conference in Washington, D.C. on February 14, 2015.
Video produced by Evan Banks and Tess Terrible.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKVBvVlDYj0
More on Syria -
http://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/outsiders-have-no-tool-fix-syria
http://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/credibility-over-red-lines-no-reason-war
Christopher A. Preble bio - http://www.cato.org/people/christopher-preble
Benjamin H. Friedman bio - http://www.cato.org/people/benjamin-friedman
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyQg1xe540M
Just 26 words long, Section 230 is a short law—enacted in 1996—that gives websites the power to offer forums for freewheeling speech and plays a huge role in shaping the online world.
Since the rise of social media, #Section230 has been at the center of much controversy, and was the key issue at stake in Gonzalez v. Google, a case in which the Court heard oral arguments in February.
Given the opportunity to reinterpret or remake Section 230, #SCOTUS declined—the best possible outcome for the future of the internet as we know it.
Learn more: https://www.cato.org/multimedia/cato-daily-podcast/desantis-likes-e-verify-despite-its-many-failures
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5asaj29o3s
What’s the next four years going to look like under a Trump Administration? President Elect Trump will bring big changes to foreign policy but we're still unsure what that will look like.
Find out more about Foreign Policy and other topics with Cato Institute’s new series “The Next Four Years.”
Produced by Cory Cooper
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiETJZfvV6U
View the full event here: http://www.cato.org/events/itc-digital-trade-clearcorrect-decision
The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) is authorized by Section 337 of the Tariff Act of 1930 to restrict the importation of articles that infringe patents and other intellectual property rights. In its ClearCorrect decision, which involves clear plastic teeth straighteners, a 5–1 ITC majority found that electronic data transmissions also qualify as articles under Section 337. A three-judge panel at the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit recently issued a 2-1 verdict against the ITC, but that split ruling may be subject to further review.
Does the ITC’s decision in ClearCorrect reflect a correct reading of the statute, or has the majority gotten it wrong? If the judicial system eventually agrees with the Commission, will the precedent have only limited effect, or will Internet freedom be compromised by potential ITC scrutiny of imported digital data?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTdD4XdUBAo
http://www.cato.org/monetary/
The stability given by the Federal Reserve is "between crisis sustainability" according to Auburn University economics professor Roger Garrison. Garrison spoke at the Cato Institute's 29th Annual Monetary Conference held November 16, 2011.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i77Q4stQ7aY
At a Cato Institute forum held December 15, 2011, Adam Liptak of the New York Times and Cato Institute adjunct scholar Richard Epstein discuss taxes.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZAm5FqWGVI