by Davide Angelucci, Lorenzo De Sio, Morris P. Fiorina, Mark Franklinvia The London School of Economics and Political Science
Wednesday, October 28, 2020
The US presidential election on 3 November will be watched closely in Europe. Drawing on recent survey evidence, Davide Angelucci, Lorenzo De Sio, Morris P. Fiorina and Mark N. Franklin illuminate the challenge facing Donald Trump in his bid for re-election. There are currently no divisive issues on which Trump stands to win more support from independents and Democrats than he stands to lose from his own support-base, while on issues for which goals are widely shared, Trump lacks credibility compared to Joe Biden.
In a heated presidential campaign year, two dates in history have illustrated our deep national divide. The New York Times spoke for liberal America when it declared last year that the real founding of the country was in 1619 when the first African slaves arrived on its shores. In short, the 1619 Project argued that what was distinctive and problematic about America was its economic system of capitalism and the original sin of slavery that established it.
If you watched the Los Angeles Dodgers in this year’s World Series, you may have noticed that America’s “fall classic” was also Greek classic in its plotline.
In our fourth episode of Battlegrounds, H.R. McMaster and Minister Kōno discuss the evolution of the Japan-U.S. alliance and growing international cooperation to preserve peace in the Indo-Pacific region and counter threats to freedom and prosperity from the South China Seas to the Senkakus as well as in space and cyberspace.
by John B. Taylorvia Institute for Monetary and Financial Stability
Wednesday, September 30, 2020
(Page 16) John Taylor, Professor at Stanford University and Senior Fellow at Hoover Institution, urged a more rules based monetary policy as central banks around the world scramble to rescue the economy damaged by the coronavirus pandemic. He also criticized the “vagueness” in the Federal Reserve’s recent announcement on its shift to average inflation targeting.
If you were anticipating a calm election in California, there’s still time to move to another state—maybe not neighboring Arizona, a pivotal battleground state, but some other state with less baggage.
On Wednesday, the government will release the 2019 National Assessment of Educational Progress scores for twelfth grade students. The results shouldn’t be a big surprise because they will reflect everything that the (pre-pandemic) cohort of students learned since birth—not just what they learned since the last time they were assessed, as eighth graders in 2015. And we already know how they fared earlier.
The 2020 Conference on Taiwan in the Indo-Pacific Region. Panel 5 on Monday, October 26, 4-5:30pm PDTfocused on Democracy, Good Governance And Pluralism.
American high school seniors’ math scores didn’t improve between 2015 and 2019, while their reading scores fell, according to the latest round of federal test results.
I'm giving "A fiscal theory of monetary policy with partially-repaid long-term debt" at the virtual finance theory seminar, Wed Oct 28 at 1 PM EDT. Brett Green leads off with "Due Diligence" at 12 PM EDT. If interested, come join. Warning: this is an academic theory paper whose whole point is to look at equations.
Join us on October 29th at 12:30 PM EDT for an hour of conversation with Russ Roberts, the host of the popular podcast Econtalk. On his podcast, Russ interviews authors, economists, innovators, and people from all walks of life about the big questions facing our society.
