Futures Unbound, this year’s Cato-CMFA Summit on Financial Regulation, took place in Chicago on June 6th. The event consisted of lectures from five speakers; Congressman Blaine Leutkemeyer, CMFA’s Thaya Brook Knight and George Selgin, the Federal Reserve’s Thomas Sullivan, and University of Chicago Law Professor Omri-Ben Shahar….
If you haven't heard much from me on these pages of late, it's because I spent most of the last two weeks traveling back and forth, and so had little time for blogging. I did, however, participate in some interesting events while I was away. The first…
Over two hundred people gathered at the Cato Institute for Tuesday’s conference, “Cryptocurrency: The Policy Challenges of a Decentralized Revolution.” Three keynote speakers and four panel discussions investigated the public policy implications of cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and the underlying distributed ledger blockchain technology. If you couldn’t make…
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A large crowd gathered late afternoon Tuesday at Cato for Quantitative Easing: A Requiem. Daniel Thornton, former Vice President of the St. Louis Federal Reserve, Scott Sumner, Chair of Monetary Policy at the Mercatus Center, and Joseph Gagnon, Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics gave…