Niall Ferguson, a Hoover senior fellow, the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University, and a noted author, discusses the debt, the US economy, and various economic theories, noting that you can’t borrow trillions of dollars a year for the rest of time.

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Condoleezza Rice, the Thomas and Barbara Stephenson Senior Fellow on Public Policy at the Hoover Institution and a professor of political science at Stanford University, discusses the importance of international aid and the significance of global development work.

Hoover senior fellows Eric Hanushek and Paul Peterson discuss a new, pathbreaking study of college attendance of disadvantaged students who had received educational vouchers. African Americans are more likely to attend college after having received vouchers to attend private schools..

John Taylor, the George P. Shultz Senior Fellow in Economics at the Hoover Institution and the Mary and Robert Raymond Professor of Economics at Stanford University, discusses the US economy and Federal Reserve monetary policy. He then shares his insights on the slow growth of the economy and on how the Fed might unwind the asset purchases. (6:27)