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Foreign and Defense Policy / Defense

Defending Defense: Sequestration’s shadow on the US military and defense industrial base

Wednesday, July 25, 2012 | 2:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Dirksen Senate Office Building Room 106

The Defending Defense Coalition brings together the Foreign Policy Initiative, AEI and the Heritage Foundation to promote a sound understanding of the U.S. defense budget and the resource requirements to sustain America’s preeminent global military position.

AEI Participant:
Danielle Pletka

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Politics and Public Opinion

The young and the restless: Millennials in the 2012 election

Wednesday, July 25, 2012 | 6:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.

AEI, Twelfth Floor 1150 Seventeenth Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036 (Two blocks from Farragut North Metro)

To understand how members of the millennial generation will impact the 2012 election, come to AEI to listen to two panels of experts explore who exactly millennials are, their involvement in the political process and how campaigns are mobilizing them. 

AEI Participant:
Karlyn Bowman

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Economics / Financial Services

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s first birthday: Where is this powerful agency headed?

Monday, July 23, 2012 | 12:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.

AEI, Twelfth Floor 1150 Seventeenth Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036 (Two blocks from Farragut North Metro)

What has the CFPB’s brief history taught us about how it will use its extraordinary powers? What costs will it impose on the private sector? Should it — and can it — be reformed or abolished? What are its prospects in the courts?  The event will begin with a keynote address by John Allison, president of the Cato Institute. A discussion among a panel of experts will follow.

Foreign and Defense Policy / Defense

Defending Defense: Sequestration’s shadow on the US military and defense industrial base

Wednesday, July 25, 2012 | 2:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Dirksen Senate Office Building Room 106

The Defending Defense Coalition brings together the Foreign Policy Initiative, AEI and the Heritage Foundation to promote a sound understanding of the U.S. defense budget and the resource requirements to sustain America’s preeminent global military position.

Politics and Public Opinion

The young and the restless: Millennials in the 2012 election

Wednesday, July 25, 2012 | 6:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.

AEI, Twelfth Floor 1150 Seventeenth Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036 (Two blocks from Farragut North Metro)

To understand how members of the millennial generation will impact the 2012 election, come to AEI to listen to two panels of experts explore who exactly millennials are, their involvement in the political process and how campaigns are mobilizing them. 

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The young and the restless: Millennials in the 2012 election
Wednesday, July 25, 2012 | 6:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
AEI, Twelfth Floor 1150 Seventeenth Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036 (Two blocks from Farragut North Metro)
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Energy and the Environment

Merchants of despair: Radical environmentalists, criminal pseudo-scientists, and the fatal cult of antihumanism

Thursday, July 26, 2012 | 12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.

AEI, Twelfth Floor 1150 Seventeenth Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036 (Two blocks from Farragut North Metro)

Humanity once looked in the mirror and saw something precious, worth protecting and fighting for -- indeed, worth liberating. But now we are beset on all sides by propaganda promoting a radically different viewpoint: that humans are endangering the earth’s natural order.

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Merchants of despair: Radical environmentalists, criminal pseudo-scientists, and the fatal cult of antihumanism
Thursday, July 26, 2012 | 12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
AEI, Twelfth Floor 1150 Seventeenth Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036 (Two blocks from Farragut North Metro)
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Mobility matters: Understanding the new geography of jobs

Enrico Moretti explains why policymakers should concentrate on mobility inequality, why there is no Great Stagnation, and why economist Paul Romer has a tough road ahead.