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Limited Hedging And Gambling For Resurrection By U.S. Banks During The 2022 Monetary Tightening?
April 4, 2023 By Amit Seru , Erica Xuewei Jiang , Gregor Matvos , Tomasz Piskorski

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Four Decades Of Senior Household Income Growth: New Evidence From The Survey Of Consumer Finances
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The Fiscal Theory of the Price Level
January 17, 2023 By John H. Cochrane

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The Fiscal Theory of the Price Level
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Who Governs? Emergency Powers In The Time Of COVID, Edited By Senior Fellow Morris Fiorina Releases by Hoover Institution Press
February 1, 2023

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Who Governs? Emergency Powers in the Time of COVID
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The California State Budget And Revenue Volatility: Fiscal Health In A Deficit Context
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How Monetary Policy Got Behind the Curve—and How to Get Back
How Monetary Policy Got Behind the Curve—and How to Get Back
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Monetary Tightening And U.S. Bank Fragility In 2023: Mark-To-Market Losses And Uninsured Depositor Runs?
March 14, 2023 By Amit Seru , Gregor Matvos , Tomasz Piskorski , Erica Xuewei Jiang

via SSRN

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China: The Party State’s Threat To Human Security
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Mutiny Interrupted: Prigozhin Stands Down
interview with John H. Cochrane , Niall Ferguson , H.R. McMaster , Bill Whalen , , Dmitri Alperovitch

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FEATURED PUBLICATIONS
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Strategika

Strategika

An online journal that analyzes ongoing issues of national security in light of conflicts of the past.

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The Quadruple Axis And Its Nemesis
Overcoming the Axis of Tyranny
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The United States: A Nation in Need Of A Leader
The Quadruple Axis and Its Nemesis
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The Caravan

The Caravan

The Caravan is a quarterly publication on the contemporary dilemmas of the Greater Middle East

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Jihadism In The Sahel: Between Counter-Terrorism And Great Power Competition
US France Russia in Sahel
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The Islamic State’s Pivot To Africa
Jihadism in Africa
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California on Your Mind

California on Your Mind

Analysis, politics, and the economics of the Golden State

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By Avoiding Union Work Rules, A California Charter School Delivers Exceptional Learning Outcomes
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No “There There”—And There Go The Oakland A’s?
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Featured Videos & Podcasts

Cold War II: Niall Ferguson On The Emerging Conflict With…

Niall Ferguson is the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and the author of numerous books, including Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe and Kissinger, 1923–1968: The Idealist. In this conversation, we cover the conflict over Taiwan: why it’s a cold war, when it started, how to avoid allowing it to become a hot war, and how to de-escalate and even win it.

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GoodFellows AI

Rage Against The Machine: The Good Fellows Discuss AI

Is artificial intelligence a global killer or an emerging technology which, if properly harnessed, can improve mankind? And what’s the significance of a low-level National Guard member being able to expose US military secrets?

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Cyber-Rattling: Jacquelyn Schneider On (War) Games People Play

The fine art of quality war-gaming – and how the practice applies to current tensions between the US and China.

What Does a Fair Tax Code Look Like? with Tyler Goodspeed

What Does A Fair Tax Code Look Like?

The use of relative terms like “fairness” muddies the discourse on taxes, leading people to reject absolutely efficient gains that they perceive as unfair—even though they may make everyone better off.

How Teachers’ Unions Became Political PolicyEd Policy Briefs

How Teachers’ Unions Became Political

The rise of teachers’ unions’ political power in the United States can be traced back to the adoption of public sector labor laws in the 1960s and 1970s, which encouraged the unions to mobilize teachers to shape education policy.

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A World-Class Library & Archives

Founded by Herbert Hoover in 1919, the Hoover Institution Library & Archives is home to some of the world's most renowned collections documenting war, revolution, peace, and political, economic, and social change in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. 

Free and open to all, discover how to search the collections, arrange a research visit, or explore exhibitions by clicking below.

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Exhibitions | Now On View

The exhibitions Dynamic Design: Transforming Posters at Hoover (June 28–December 20, 2023) and Hoover@100: Ideas Defining A Century (ongoing) are open and free to all visitors to Hoover Tower, at the heart of Stanford University campus.

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Research Services

Planning an onsite visit to the reading room? Conducting your research from afar? Staff are ready to connect you with the most relevant materials through reference consultations, assisting with registration and material requests, digitization, and more.

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The Collections

Acquiring, preserving, and making accessible collections of enduring value, including more than one million library volumes and over six thousand archival collections.

Digital First Initiative

Our aim is to make full archival collections accessible to researchers around the world through the digitization of textual, graphical, sound, and moving-image materials.

Engagement & Outreach

Building connections to our collections by sparking curiosity in audiences interested in the meaning and role of history through exhibitions, classes, tours, and special programing.

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