Dear President-Elect Trump: The media and punditocracy are full of speculation about your "100 day" program. It sounds like you and your team might actually be preparing for one. Don't do it. Please.
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For the first time in years, we have a President who is not beholden—a President who can ignore special interests and do what he believes is for the good of the country. With both houses of Congress, he will enjoy considerable power, but that power will be subject to the ingenious checks and balances of the Constitution.
In the weird and startling hours after it became clear that Donald Trump had won the presidential election, a most lovely thing befell the United States: an outbreak of courtesy.
When a new American president is elected, the world likes to test him within the first few weeks or months of taking power. The witness of history is almost universal in this, so much so that the phenomenon cannot be accidental. It is likely, therefore, that Donald Trump will be tested by one of the major foreign powers fairly soon after Inauguration Day 2017.
Many people say they are humbled when others bestow honors on them. I've never understood that. When I get honors, I feel proud, if I think I deserve them. I get humbled when I make mistakes.
Since Donald Trump’s surprise victory on Tuesday, a question has hung over the fate of his opponent, Hillary Clinton. Will—and should—President Barack Obama pardon her on his way out the door?
I sometimes learn from people's comments. So I want to hat tip a recent commenter on one of my four pieces on the Council of Economic Advisers' report on alleged monopsony in the labor market.
Hoover Institution fellow John Cochrane discusses whether the US could and should be growing at more then 2%. Cochrane notes that the government needs to get out of the way and let the economy grow.
Service members and the Stanford community joined together on Veterans Day to honor two Stanford alumni who made the ultimate sacrifice while serving their country.
The Hoover Institution hosted "Soldiers on the Homefront: The Domestic Role of the American Military" on Monday, November 14, 2016 from 5:00pm - 7:00pm.
Dr. James Ceaser, professor of politics at the University of Virginia and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, will speak on the topic of “The 2016 Election: The Best Outcome to the Worst Choice?” at the Ashbrook Center Colloquium on Friday, Nov. 18, at 3 p.m. in the Ashbrook Center, located on the eighth floor of the Library on the Ashland University campus.
Donald Trump leveled unprecedented criticism at the Federal Reserve during the campaign. As president, he could get to quickly reshape it — and the economic conditions that central bank policymakers will be facing.
Wall Street is a place of contradictions. Toss a trend its way, and a steady drumbeat can develop, supported by an echo system that pushes the trend to an emotional extreme. However, throw it an unexpected shock or surprise, and Wall Street can make analytical adjustments remarkably fast and accurately.
Perhaps taking his wife’s advice, to go high when others go low, President Barack Obama kept it cordial in his first meeting with President-elect Donald Trump at the White House. Trump did, too, calling Obama “a very good man.”
