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Cheers and applause stephen welcome to the report, everybody. Good to have you with us. Thank you for being here. Stephen Stephen Stephen Stephen Stephen Stephen Stephen Stephen Stephen stephen thank you, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you so much for being here. I just got to wet the whistle for a second. cheers and applause . Stephen sit down i just want to give a shoutout to all of our friends in belgium watching right now. laughter nation, oh, breathe that in. Spring is in the air. Especially since i fired up my sweet pea and lilac glade plugin. Really makes it feel like sometimes i leave thi...

Institute to present a book that i fear may seem from its title like im bringing coals to new castle, why government fails so often. This is, after all, the Cato Institute. And so this message will be, i think, affirming to you, but what i hope to suggest is you may not fully appreciate the reasons why government fails or the magnitude of the failure and how it might be, those failures might be remedied. That is to say most of the discussion about government failures are highly theoretical, rhetorical, deeply politically, philosophical level rather than at an analytical level based on empirica...

Crashed our entire economy through purposeful and fraudulent activities [laughter] banks and the bankers who bank them [laughter] have weathered attacked from all corners. The government is waging war on banks. They say wall street is guilty that your fortunes are where they are now because of wall street. People want to see bankers in handcuffs going to prison. Jon as as though seeing them punished appropriately would be somehow just or right. [ laughter ] well, guess what . The vampires finally got their blood. His name is kareem and his bankers lied about the Mortgage Backed security and he...

To newcastle most people think government failure is a deeply philosophical level rather than as an analytical level based on empirical evidence. If i have a contribution to make to the people at kate know, it may be to enrich that particular kind of evidence for conclusions that you probably have no need for fortification about. I am also delighted to be on a panel whiff wally olson with the my work for for 30 years. And something i contributed to in 1980s and also to be on a panel with one whose work i respected for so long. I begin with the notion of a crisis. Anyone trying to sell the book...

Cant learn about whether programs are working or not. The problem is the action that takes place as a result of learning, the evolution. That is where any organization resists getting rid of things that dont work. It will do anything to avoid that. It was different in the private sector. I have been in the private sector and if you are not confronted with the discipline of profit and loss in a big way, you are not inclined to undertake evolutionary change yourself. So i think you can get useful evaluation internally and from contractors but in the end you wont get the evolution. A very brief c...