Hoover’s October Retreat began on Sunday, October 18, with before-dinner remarks by Christopher Cox, former chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission. Some of the topics presented during Monday’s events included superfreakonomics, global cooling, the future of health care reform, the causes of the financial crisis, reforming our regulatory system, foreign policy, California taxes and reform, materials on Stalin in the Hoover Archives, nuclear weapons, Obama, the Supreme Court, the status of the Republican Party, and the future of the U.S. Army.
