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Hoover Daily Report by topic: Economic Crisis 2008-2009

June 13, 2012 | What Paul Gregory Is Writing About
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Add 400,000 More to the Unemployment Count

by Paul R. Gregory (Research Fellow)
Now we have another category: People who take early social security (and sacrifice higher pensions from later retirement) due to the fact that they cannot find jobs...
June 14, 2012 | Wall Street Journal
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Whose Fault Is Today's Bad Economy?

by Edward Paul Lazear (Morris Arnold and Nona Jean Cox Senior Fellow)
What we're experiencing is a new wave of slowdowns, not a continuation of past problems...
June 14, 2012 | e21, Economic Policies for the 21st Century
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Does the Government Really Need More Help than the Private Sector?

by Charles Blahous (Research Fellow)
In short, should elected officials treat the government sector or the private sector as their principal client interest?...
June 12, 2012 | Corner (National Review Online)
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‘Germany May Destroy Europe for the Third Time’ — Really?

by Victor Davis Hanson (Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow)
What is destroying Europe is not Germany, but two clearly identifiable causes...
June 12, 2012 | Cafe Hayek
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Compared to what

by Russell Roberts (Research Fellow)
When deriding the Estonian recovery and the benefits of austerity, the right question would be, compared to what...
June 11, 2012 | KeithHennessey.com
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Is private sector employment fine in absolute or relative terms?

by Keith Hennessey
President Obama’s argument last Friday that “the private sector is doing fine” caused quite a flap...The private sector is not fine, in absolute or relative terms...
June 11, 2012 | Cafe Hayek
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In a complex system, bias reigns

by Russell Roberts (Research Fellow)
[When someone tells] you that government creates jobs, just ask them how they know. Their answer will be that someone with exemplary credentials says so. But there are those with exemplary credentials who say otherwise...
June 12, 2012 | National Review Online
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‘Austerity’ versus ‘Growth’

by Victor Davis Hanson (Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow)
Western governments clothe their irresponsibility in misleading words...
June 8, 2012 | John Batchelor Show
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John Taylor on the John Batchelor Show

John B. Taylor (George P. Shultz Senior Fellow in Economics; Chair, Working Group on Economic Policy; and member of the Task Force on Energy Policy) is interviewed
John Taylor, Hoover, in re: Hayek and the rule of rules needed to restore confidence and certainty in a troubled economy...
June 10, 2012 | Becker-Posner Blog
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Is Further Quantitative Easing by the Fed Warranted?

by Gary S. Becker (Rose-Marie and Jack R. Anderson Senior Fellow; member of the Working Group on Economic Policy; and member of the Task Force on Energy Policy)
I urge the Fed to resist this pressure mainly because further Fed easing under present circumstance will do little stimulating...