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November 21, 2010 | NPR

Blahous discusses Social Security and Medicare on NPR

Charles Blahous, a Hoover research fellow who currently serves as one of the two public trustees for the Social Security and Medicare Programs, notes that the government can ease the pain by enacting very gradual Social Security reforms—such as the Bowles-Simpson proposal to raise the retirement age from 67 to 69 over 48 years beginning after 2020.

November 18, 2010 | CNBC

Macey discusses home builder bonuses on CNBC

Jonathan Macey, a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution and a member of the Institution’s Property Rights Task Force, discusses whether it was the right move for home builder DR Horton to pay its top two executives $4 million in bonuses for the 2010 fiscal year.

November 17, 2010 | Economist Online

Michael Spence discusses the world economy on the Economist online

Michael Spence, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Philip H. Knight Professor of Management Emeritus in the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University, discusses how major emerging economies are pulling the others along and why advanced economies need to make sacrifices.

November 17, 2010 | CNBC - Squawk Box

Spence discusses the economy and unemployment on CNBC

Michael Spence, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Philip H. Knight Professor Emeritus of Management in the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University, discusses how globalization is bringing about structural change in the world’s leading economies on CNBC’s Squawk Box.

November 17, 2010

Peterson and Finn discuss how our best and brightest measure up

Hoover senior fellows and members of the Koret Task Force on K–12 Education Paul Peterson and Chester Finn discuss the results of a new study showing that U.S. schools are producing a smaller percentage of high-achieving math students than are schools in many other countries.

November 15, 2010 | Bloomberg

Calomiris interview concerning the Fed on Bloomberg

Charles Calomiris, a member of the Property Rights, Freedom, and Prosperity Task Force and professor at Columbia Business School, discusses his decision to sign an open letter to Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke criticizing the central bank's expansion of monetary stimulus.

November 14, 2010 | CNN

Shultz is on CNN’s GPS

George Shultz, the Thomas W. and Susan B. Ford Distinguished Fellow at the Hoover Institution, discusses the economy, Social Security, debt, taxes, politics, economic growth, and the rise of Asia with Fareed Zakaria on CNN’s GPS. The Shultz interview begins approximately four minutes into the show.

November 13, 2010 | C-Span2 Book TV

Patenaude discusses Trotsky on C-SPAN's Book TV

Bertrand M. Patenaude, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and lecturer in history and international relations at Stanford University, discusses his book Trotsky: Downfall of a Revolutionary, which recounts the life of Red Army chief Leon Trotsky. Patenaude examines Trotsky's political career from his ascendancy as a young Marxist to Bolshevik leader to his feud with Joseph Stalin.

November 12, 2010 | Bloomberg

Lazear discusses the economy on Bloomberg

Edward Lazear, the Morris Arnold and Nona Jean Cox Senior Fellow at the Hoover I

Edward Lazear, the Morris Arnold Cox Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and former chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, discusses the outlook for the U.S. economy, government spending, tax policy, and the Federal Reserve's second round of asset purchases with Bloomberg’s Tom Keene.

November 12, 2010 | Education Next

The new Congress and education policy

Hoover senior fellows and members of the Koret Task Force on K–12 Education Paul Peterson and Chester Finn discuss what the election results are likely to mean for federal education policy.

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