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November 5, 2009
We of little faith
Hoover senior fellow Niall Ferguson discusses the financial crisis, the dollar, the FDIC, and the road ahead.


November 5, 2009
Fueled by a federal stimulus package, education spending will likely increase over the next decade despite a lack of achievement gains for students
Despite an economic downturn and new data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) released last month that shows no learning gains in math for American 4th graders…


November 5, 2009
Reason foundation co-founder Tibor Machan discusses Ayn Rand
Tibor Machan is one of the founding partners in Reason Enterprises and a research fellow at the Hoover Institution. He discusses Ayn Rand, free societies, and capitalism on Reason.tv.


November 4, 2009
Condoleezza Rice speaks of humble beginnings to a packed ballroom
As a young black girl growing up in one of the most segregated states in the South, Condoleezza Rice knows a thing or two about rising from humble beginnings.


November 3, 2009
Jazz at Liberty
Recently I asked a colleague, “How many times have you gone looking for John Kennedy’s speech at the Brandenburg Gate and wound up listening to Phil Woods blowing sax?”


November 3, 2009
A speechwriter remembers Reagan’s freedom call
In 1987, President Reagan stood before the Berlin Wall and addressed a challenge to the general secretary of the Soviet Union: “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this Wall!” More than twenty years later, Hoover fellow Peter Robinson, who drafted the historic address, tells how the speech came about.
(Photo - historic piece of the Berlin Wall located at Hoover)


November 3, 2009
San Jose police under scrutiny
Joseph McNamara, research fellow at the Hoover Institution and retired police chief of San Jose, discusses the investigation of the high rate of force used during arrests for resisting arrest by the San Jose Police Department on KQED’s Forum with Michael Krasny.


November 2, 2009
Heller on gridlock and the tragedy of the anticommons
Hoover research fellow Russell Roberts interviews Michael Heller of Columbia Law School and author of The Gridlock Economy.


November 2, 2009
Road to economic recovery
Edward Lazear, the Morris Arnold Cox Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, and the CNBC news team, discuss whether construction spending data, pending home sales data, and the ISM Index are strong examples of an economic recovery.


November 1, 2009
‘Tear Down This Wall’
Hoover research fellow Peter Robinson discusses the events that led up to the fall of the Berlin Wall as well as President Ronald Reagan’s famous line to Mikhail Gorbachev to “Tear down this wall.”


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