James Miller III, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and chairman of the CapAnalysis Group, testifies before the US Congress Joint Economic Committee concerning fiscal rules and federal spending.
Hoover senior fellows and members of the Koret Task Force on K–12 EducationEric Hanushek and Paul Peterson dissect the fiscal problems in US education. Short-run revenue problems are hard to solve just by wishful thinking, but the long-run problems caused by health care demands and unfunded retirement liabilities are real. (4:37)
Charles Hill, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and a career foreign minister in the US Foreign Service, provides a historical perspective on Islam, analyzing what he calls “the long war of Islamism against the international state system.”
Edward Lazear, the Morris Arnold Cox Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and former chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, discusses the tax cuts, the dismal employment data, and what it will take to generate job growth in America.
Edward Lazear, the Morris Arnold Cox Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and former chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, discusses President Barack Obama's economic policies and the United States labor market with Tom Keene on Bloomberg Television's Surveillance Midday.
Chester Finn, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and chairman of the Koret Task Force on K–12 Education, discusses cheating in schools in light of the recent scandal in Atlanta on Fox Business. Finn notes that the teachers and students are judged on the basis of test scores, intensifying the pressure to do well, and that better test security can help mitigate the cheating.
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, with CNBCs’s Larry Kudlow, QE2, other stimulus programs, the prospects for QE3, and the potential for a US economic recovery.
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 Federal Reserve monetary policy, the Taylor Rule, and the prospects for a US economic recovery with Bloomberg’s Tom Keene.
Russell Roberts, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and EconTalk host, and filmmaker John Papola discuss their two rap videos about economics. The most recent was “Fight of the Century.”
