Allan Meltzer, a distinguished visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Allan H. Meltzer University Professor of Political Economy at the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University, discusses, with Peter Schiff, the Fed’s dual mandate and the need for a long-term strategy to address the problems of the economy.
Edward Lazear, the Morris Arnold Cox Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and former chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, offers insight into the current economic recovery and how it compares historically. Lazear notes that we are not back on the right path and that we have not made up for lost ground.
Edward Lazear, the Morris Arnold Cox Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and former chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, offers insight into the current economic recovery and how it compares historically, as well as insight on taxes and jobs growth.
Charles Blahous, a Hoover research fellow who currently serves as one of the two public trustees for the Social Security and Medicare Programs, discusses his recent study, which reveals that the president's national health care law adds $340 billion to the deficit.
Michael Boskin, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the T. M. Friedman Professor of Economics at Stanford University, notes that California is a mixed picture with a lot of problems and that overall California is not doing well.
Peter Berkowitz, the Tad and Dianne Taube Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, notes that parents want their children to see both sides of the argument so they can make up their own minds; thus universities should be places where students are free to explore ideas.
Jack Goldsmith, a member of the Task Force on National Security and Law and the author, most recently, of Power and Constraint: The Accountable Presidency after 9/11, argues that, surprisingly, America's governmental checks and balances do a pretty decent job of constraining executive power.
Jack Goldsmith, a member of the Koret-Taube Task Force on National Security and Law at the Hoover Institution, the Henry L. Shattuck Professor of Law at Harvard University, and the author, most recently, of Power and Constraint: The Accountable Presidency after 9/11, notes that when it comes to counterterrorism there is little difference between the Obama and Bush administrations and that Obama's continuation of his predecessor's policies is a sign of victory for US constitutional government.
