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A Time For Choosing Speaker Series With Dr. Condoleezza Rice
Condoleezza Rice offers her thoughts on the most salient challenges and critical questions facing the nation in a speech at the Ronald Reagan Foundation.
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Harold W. McGraw, III Foundation Endows New Hoover Senior Fellowship On US-India Relations
The Hoover Institution has announced a new senior fellowship dedicated to fortifying the relationship between the United States and the Republic of India, made possible by the generosity of the Harold W. McGraw, III Foundation.
The Bradley Foundation Announces Esteemed Economist John Cochrane As A 2023 Bradley Prize Winner
The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation has announced that John H. Cochrane, one of the country’s preeminent economists, will receive a 2023 Bradley Prize. Now in its 19th year, the Prize is given to individuals whose extraordinary work exemplifies the Foundation’s mission to restore, strengthen, and protect the principles and institutions of American exceptionalism.
Hoover Institution Press Publishes Cage Fight: Civilian And Democratic Pressures On Military Conflicts And Foreign Policy, Edited By Bruce S. Thornton
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Featured Fellows
Stephen Kotkin
Kleinheinz Senior Fellow
John F. Cogan
Leonard and Shirley Ely Senior Fellow
Amit Seru
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Silicon Valley’s Lesson: How To Change Banking To Prevent Crises And Bailouts
Silicon Valley Bank’s failure, and the ongoing turmoil in the banking system, provide a deep lesson. Our current bank regulation system, vastly expanded under the Dodd-Frank Act after the 2008 financial crisis, is fundamentally broken.
March 16, 2023
John H. Cochrane
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The Cold War Never Ended
[Subscription Required] Does anyone have a right to be surprised? A gangster regime in the Kremlin has declared that its security is threatened by a much smaller neighbor—which, the regime claims, is not a truly sovereign country but just a plaything of far more powerful Western states. To make itself more secure, the Kremlin insists, it needs to bite off some of its neighbor’s territory. Negotiations between the two sides break down; Moscow invades.
April 6, 2022
Stephen Kotkin
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Niall Ferguson On Cold War 2, Middle East Conflict And Woke Students
Hoover Institution fellow Niall Ferguson discusses Cold War 2, the Middle East Conflict, and Woke Students.
March 11, 2023
interview Niall Ferguson
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Four Decades Of Senior Household Income Growth: New Evidence From The Survey Of Consumer Finances
The growing number of retirees is placing a well-documented strain on the federal budget. Less recognized is the substantial growth in senior citizens’ income levels. Using the Survey of Consumer Finances, this paper tracks the remarkably strong income growth in households headed by persons age sixty-five and older during the last four decades. The strong growth in seniors’ incomes provides the basis for a comprehensive reexamination of federal retirement policies.
February 15, 2023
John F. Cogan
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How to Reverse Pandemic-Related Learning Losses
The largest economic costs of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States will come from shortfalls in student learning, but effective teachers can help reverse those costs.
February 22, 2023
Eric Hanushek
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Monetary Tightening And U.S. Bank Fragility In 2023: Mark-To-Market Losses And Uninsured Depositor Runs?
We analyze U.S. banks’ asset exposure to a recent rise in the interest rates with implications for financial stability. The U.S. banking system’s market value of assets is $2 trillion lower than suggested by their book value of assets accounting for loan portfolios held to maturity. Marked-to-market bank assets have declined by an average of 10% across all the banks, with the bottom 5th percentile experiencing a decline of 20%.
March 14, 2023
Amit Seru
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Legal Aspects Of Russia’s New START Suspension Provide Opportunities For US Policy Makers
Vladimir Putin sent anti-diplomatic shock waves around the world when he announced that Russia was suspending its implementation of the New START arms control agreement last week.
March 2, 2023
Rose Gottemoeller
FEATURED PUBLICATIONS
Strategika
An online journal that analyzes ongoing issues of national security in light of conflicts of the past.
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The Caravan
The Caravan is a quarterly publication on the contemporary dilemmas of the Greater Middle East
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California on Your Mind
Analysis, politics, and the economics of the Golden State
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Multimedia
Dropping Money From Helicopters: Economist John Cochrane On…
John Cochrane is the Rose-Marie and Jack Anderson Senior Fellow in Economics at the Hoover Institution and the author of a new book, The Fiscal Theory of the Price Level. In this wide-ranging conversation, Cochrane discusses the root causes of inflation, what we can (and can’t) do about it, the economists who influenced his thinking, and how his father inspired him to become an academic.
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What Does It Mean To Fight A Just War?
Reports from the invasion of Ukraine strongly suggest that Russia and its leaders have committed war crimes against the Ukrainian people in defiance of international human rights standards.
The Historical Guide To Dealing With Putin’s Invasion Of Ukraine
Much like the Spanish Civil War, the invasion of Ukraine is a reminder that aggression is always lurking and must be deterred by forceful resistance.
Battlegrounds 50: Today’s Challenges And Prospects For International Cooperation
H.R. McMaster in conversation with Ambassador Mark Sedwill, Ambassador Mariangela Zappia, Ambassador Christoph Heusgen, and Ambassador Phillippe Etienne on Thursday, March 23, 2023.
Larry Summers Lays Down The Law | Michael Auslin | Hoover Institution
The past and future of US-China economic relations.
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The exhibitions Bread + Medicine: Saving Lives in a Time of Famine (September 19, 2022–April 28, 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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