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February 1, 2012

Making the Housing Market Work Again

Analyzing past mistakes to build long-term policy solutions
January 30, 2012 | Stanford Business School Magazine

Spence discusses the unemployment rate and whether it can be reduced

Michael A. Spence

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, notes that there is no short-term fix to the broken job market in the United States. Structural changes over the past two decades have altered the design of the labor market, making much of its growth hinge on domestic demand, which is virtually nonexistent today.

August 2, 2011 | Stanford Report

Hoover economist: How do we 'get off this path of deficits as far as the eye can see?'

John Shoven is a Hoover senior fellow and  director of the Stanford Institute fo
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John Shoven, the Buzz and Barbara McCoy Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and the director of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, describes the long slow road to economic recovery. “We are on a course and speed to be where Greece is today by roughly 2025. But nobody is going to bail out the United States,” he said. “It's time to be creative.”

June 5, 2011 | Newsweek

Newsweek interview with Michael Spence

Michael A. Spence

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 his new book, The Next Convergence: The Future of Economic Growth in a Multispeed World. Spence also talks about American inequality and the Chinese economy.

June 1, 2011

The Roots of the 2008 Economic Collapse

David R. Henderson on What Caused the Financial Crisis? by Jeffrey Friedman, ed.
January 20, 2011 | Bloomberg Businessweek

John Taylor is featured in a Bloomberg Businessweek article

John B. Taylor
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, has been critical of the Dodd-Frank financial regulatory overhaul and former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan's monetary calls. Taylor is also very concerned that round two of Bernanke's quantitative easing will spark inflation.
January 11, 2011

Hoover fellow, task force member, and resolution project member discuss financial reforms

John Taylor, Charles Calomiris, and David Skeel

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, was part of a panel discussion on how the authority of the Federal Reserve System will change under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.

November 18, 2010 | Reuters

Taylor wants new law for Fed policy

John B. Taylor
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, proposes that the Federal Reserve should be subject to new legal boundaries that make monetary policy more predictable and leave policymakers with less wiggle room.
September 29, 2010

Lessons from the Great Deviation

How the Great Deviation killed the Great Moderation and gave birth to the Great Recession.
September 29, 2010

Those Infamous Speculators

Why they’re not always the bad guys.