Edward Lazear, the Morris Arnold Cox Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and former chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, notes that the government can create an environment for business that stimulates long-term job growth.
Robert George, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and member of the Task Force on Virtues of a Free Society, discusses whether the federal government has gone over the line and ventured into activities in which it is not constitutionally authorized.
George Shultz, the Thomas W. and Susan B. Ford Distinguished Fellow at the Hoover Institution, discusses the steps needed to fix the struggling economy, how to reduce the deficit, how to improve education, and the situation in Libya.
Hoover senior fellows and members of the Koret Task Force on K–12 EducationEric Hanushek and Paul Peterson describe how the United States compares to developed countries of the world in math achievement. On average US students place 32nd in the world in math, following Portugal. The best state, Massachusetts, is only 9th in the world; the most populous state (California) comes in 37th. (5:59)
Mike Petrilli, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, where he specializes in education policy studies, discusses the White House's plan to waive No Child Left Behind provisions for states that adopt its preferred policies.
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, discusses the debt deal in Washington, whether we are headed for a double-dip recession, and the necessity of creating a more predictable fiscal and monetary policy.
