Greg Mankiw wrote a week ago in the Sunday New York Times, ably explaining the conventional view that the Euro is a bad idea, and that even countries as small as Greece (11 million people) need national currencies.
In The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics, I have bios of all of the winners of the Nobel Prize in economics through 2004, technically the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.
Recorded on July 16, 2015 - Hoover fellows Charles Hill and James Mattis discuss the Iran deal and the state of the world on Uncommon Knowledge with Hoover fellow Peter Robinson. In their view the United States has handed over its leading role to Iran and provided a dowry along with it.
Despite the Supreme Court’s recent decision in King v. Burwell and President Obama’s pronouncement that the debate over the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is over, health care reform will be a major topic of discussion in the 2016 presidential campaign.
Tom Brady just got handed a four-game suspension for his role in “Deflategate”. Poor fella. He now has to spend a month of Sundays cooped up at home, with Gisele.
Here’s one way Republicans could deal with Donald Trump: Rebrand Reince Priebus as Commissioner (not Chairman) of the Republican National Committee and wait for Trump to say or do something outrageous (a matter of days, if not hours or minutes).
One of the major worries that confronts those who study the American military at present is the question as to whether the accommodation of its units to the social and political agendas of a portion of America’s elite might not in the long run damage what has been for the past thirty years the most competent combat organization in the world.
Organic agriculture is an unscientific, heavily subsidized marketing gimmick that misleads and rips off consumers. The federal government should stop promoting and subsidizing it.
Kyle David, a recent Silas Palmer fellow at Hoover Library & Archives and a doctoral candidate in Modern Chinese and World History at the University of California at Irvine, shares his experience of using Maoist textbooks to study the socialization of schoolchildren during China’s turbulent twentieth century.
featuring John B. Taylorvia United States Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs
Wednesday, July 29, 2015
Hoover Institution fellow John Taylor gives a testimony before the Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Protection on the necessity of bankruptcy reform.
Energi today announced Condoleezza Rice as the keynote speaker for its upcoming 2015 Risk Management & Insurance Summit in Washington, DC, October 11-15. Former Secretary of State of the United States Condoleezza Rice will speak on Wednesday, October 14.
The El Camino Healthcare District Board of Directors last month elected a new member – Lanhee J. Chen, J.D., Ph.D., a Stanford University lecturer and political consultant. Chen’s three-year term began July 1.
Recently, Forum on Energy has shared a few podcasts via Twitter. This innovative approach to spreading information about the future of nuclear energy has been undertaken by the Hoover Institution, a think tank and research institution based out of Stanford University.
As the U.S. and Turkey begin clearing Islamic State fighters from Syria’s northwestern border, their ambitious mission raises a new set of troubling questions, chief among them: Who will provide the military muscle to oust the extremists and protect civilians sheltering in the new buffer zone?
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell has upheld New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady’s 4-game suspension. Although Brady might try to get an injunction against the suspension, I doubt the courts will take up the matter.
