In 1974, Portugal’s Carnation Revolution, which overthrew the country's almost half-century dictatorship, inaugurated the “third wave” of global democratization.
Controversy continues to rage over whether foods from genetically engineered plants should have to be labeled as such. The battle has been fought in the media, in state legislatures, through referendum issues and in federal courts. Most mandatory-labeling proposals have failed, and none is in effect.
FT's Alphaville has an excellent post by Matthew Klein on long-term interest rates, organized around Greenspan's "conundrum." The "conundrum" was that Greenspan couldn't control long term rates as he wished. Long rates do not always track short rates or Fed pronouncements. As the post nicely shows, it was ever thus.
President Xi Jinping of China arrives in the United States on September 24, 2015, for an extended visit that includes a summit with President Barack Obama on September 25 and a speech at the United Nations on September 28.
The Hoover Institution’s David Brady and Douglas Rivers look at the results of new polling to examine where Donald Trump’s support comes from and explain the ramifications for the broader GOP presidential field.
Hoover Institution fellow Tod Lindberg discusses his latest book, The Heroic Heart, and gives his insights on why the modern model of a hero has changed,
The “real-bills doctrine” was roundly rejected by postwar monetary theorists of both the Chicagoan and the Austrian perspectives (Lloyd Mints 1945, Ludwig von Mises 1949). But George Selgin (1989) was right to warn us that “it would be a mistake to think of the real-bills doctrine as a ‘dead horse’” because “dead horses of economic theory have a habit of suddenly springing back to life again.”
Finnish diplomat and Nobel laureate Martti Ahtisaari suggested that there was a moment early on during Syria's hideous war when a political solution could have been thrashed out.
As a just-released New York Times/CBS News poll shows soft-spoken neurosurgeon Ben Carson closing in on abrasive frontrunner Donald Trump, 16 Republican presidential candidates arrive in solidly blue California on Wednesday to debate the country's future at the Reagan Library in Simi Valley.
On October 5, the Becker Friedman Institute for Research in Economics at the University of Chicago will host a conference entitled “The Legacy of the First Chicago School of Economics.” Organized by Hoover distinguished visiting fellow and Dartmouth professor Douglas Irwin, the conference will explore the legacy of the 1930s school of University of Chicago economists—including Frank Knight, Henry Simons, and Jacob Viner—and their relationship to a subsequent group of Chicago thinkers that included Milton Friedman, George Stigler, and Aaron Director.
I recently had the privilege of joining my friend and the Chairman and CEO of Shaklee Corporation, Roger Barnett, at “Shaklee Live,” an annual conference to which Shaklee’s global sellers are invited.
Hannah Thoburn describes the struggles of a Crimean Tatar radio station that has fled Crimea to Kiev to continue operating in the wake of the Russian occupation. Christian Caryl dismantles the Russian and Chinese argument that “Western democracy” is responsible for Europe’s refugee crisis. If that’s the case, why are the refugees heading west?
Good Wednesday morning. It’s the “Thump and dump Trump” debate, with most of the GOP candidates planning to go after The Donald, and moderator Jake Tapper eager to spur fights. In addition to pitting Jeb, Carson, Carly and perhaps others against Trump, Tapper said on CNN that he’ll sometimes ask pairs of candidates to address (read: fight) each other.
