On Wednesday, March 7, Hoover national security affairs fellow Lieutenant Commander Manuel Hernandez hosted a forum with Stanford University students to discuss US naval strategy. Click here to watch the video. (33:54)
Chester E. Finn Jr., a senior fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution and chairman of Hoover’s Koret Task Force on K–12 Education, discusses the education department's Office of Civil Rights’ report showing that black and Hispanic students are more likely to be suspended than white students.
Russell Roberts, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and EconTalk host, discusses whether capitalism is an ethical economic system. Roberts would like to see the government stop privatizing gains and socializing losses and get back to a free market system.
John Taylor, the George P. Shultz Senior Fellow in Economics at the Hoover Institution and the Mary and Robert Raymond Professor of Economics at Stanford University, weighs in on taxes and the Fed's plan to keep interest rates low and whether the fed and central banks can control inflation.
Kevin Warsh, a distinguished visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution and a lecturer at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, discusses the outlook for the US economy, noting that “there is a window and there is a real opportunity for this economy to be strong again, and if we keep treating it as if it were a fragile economy, that's what it will turn out to be.”
John Taylor, the George P. Shultz Senior Fellow in Economics at the Hoover Institution and the Mary and Robert Raymond Professor of Economics at Stanford University, gave an overview of the current economic situation, comparing it to the recession of the 1980s. He argued that a return to the founding principles of economic and political freedom—limited government, rule of law, strong incentives, reliance on markets, a predictable policy framework—is necessary to make the United States successful again. (37:00)
Mike Petrilli, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, where he specializes in education policy studies, and an executive vice president at the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation, discusses education reform and why many of the states that received Race to the Top money haven't implemented education reforms.
