Fortunately, what is perhaps Milton Friedman's greatest legacy remains in place: actual conscription does not now exist in America. Yet let it be known that if conscription of any sort returns and if anyone or any group tries to conscript my son, they will fail. My son will not be forced to sacrifice for anyone or anything, and least of all for any government.
A few years ago, pundits and policymakers were predicting that the BRICS countries – Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa – would be the new engines of global growth. Naive extrapolation of rapid growth led many people to imagine an ever-brighter future for these economies – and, thanks to them, for the rest of the world as well.
featuring John B. Taylorvia U.S. House Committee on the Budget
Wednesday, June 17, 2015
Hoover Institution fellow John B. Taylor gives his testimony before the Congressional Committee on the Budget regarding bringing the U.S. federal budget back into balance.
Don't blame the Chinese for the OPM hack, says former NSA and CIA Director Michael Hayden. If Hayden had had the ability to get the equivalent Chinese records when running CIA or NSA, he says, "I would not have thought twice.
Adolf Hitler started World War II by attacking Poland on September 1, 1939. Nazi Germany moved only after it had already remilitarized the Rhineland, absorbed Austria and dismantled Czechoslovakia. Before the outbreak of the war, Hitler's new Third Reich had created the largest German-speaking nation in European history.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) lately appears to have assumed a role that was never intended: reducing the ability of vaccines to save lives. Next week we’ll see whether this trend continues, as the agency’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) makes critical recommendations about vaccination to prevent an often-lethal disease of children and adolescents.
featuring John B. Taylorvia U.S. House Committee on Financial Services
Wednesday, June 17, 2015
Hoover Institution fellow John B. Taylor gives his testimony before the Congressional Subcommittee on Monetary Policy and Trade regarding global monetary policy.
The residents of occupied Donbass have suffered death and hardship that would disappear if the separatists went away. Will they eventually, driven by desperation, use people power to rid themselves of the Russian-backed forces? If so, Russia will face a hard decision.
In the recently released May 2015 Golden State Poll, just 14 percent of Californian adults living in the Bay Area, Central Valley, and Southern California think one of the three state-level affordable housing policies tested would do the most to reduce the cost of purchasing a home.
with John B. Taylorvia U.S. House Committee on Financial Services
Wednesday, June 17, 2015
Hoover Institution fellow John B. Taylor testifies before the U.S. House Committee on Financial Services on 'IMF reforms and global economic stability '.
Hoover Institution fellow Victor Davis Hanson speaks on U.S. policies toward Russia, North Korea, and Islam and if the 'U.S. could be heading for another armed, global conflict that would make World War II seem like a minor skirmish'.
with John B. Taylorvia U.S. House Committee on the Budget
Wednesday, June 17, 2015
Hoover Institution fellow John B. Taylor testifies before the U.S. House Committee on the Budget on 'the economic effects of a fiscal consolidation strategy'.
Hoover Institution fellow Victor Davis Hanson describes the Europe's struggles with immigration, comparing and contrasting them with those in the United States.
Hoover Institution's Tim Kane and Bloomberg's Lisa Abramowicz and Peter Cook react to the Fed's decision to keep the central bank on track to raise interest rates this year.
One is from New Hampshire that shows Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders getting to within 10 points of Clinton and another that shows her trailing in must-win Ohio and knotted up against less-known potential GOP rivals in swing states Florida and Pennsylvania.
The Court of Appeal for British Columbia has recently issued the latest in a long-and-growing-longer list of judicial cases attempting to apply local legal principles extraterritorially – in this case, to conduct by a non-party taking place anywhere on the globe.
