Michael Spence, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Philip H. Knight Professor Emeritus of Management in the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University who was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences and the John Bates Clark Medal from the American Economic Association, discusses, with CNBC’s Maria Bartiromo, the changing fortune of the US economy in the twenty-first century.
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 his “biggest worry,” which is that the United States economy will be anemic for years and unemployment will remain high. He does not, however, advocate any additional stimulus from the government or the Federal Reserve.
Charles Blahous, Hoover research fellow and currently serving as one of the two public trustees for the Social Security and Medicare Programs, presented the primary findings of the 2011 Medicare Trustees’ report, along with Social Security and Medicare Board of Trustees member Robert Reischauer.
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, explains how restoring sound fiscal policy will allow for more private sector growth in regards to the economic recovery process.
Edward Lazear, the Morris Arnold Cox Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and former chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, is part of a panel discussion concerning economic policy, taxes, pessimism of US business leaders, and why US businesses are not hiring.
Charles Blahous, a Hoover research fellow who currently serves as one of the two public trustees for the Social Security and Medicare Programs, discusses the annual report on the financial solvency of those programs.
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, explains why the GOP’s playing chicken with the debt limit will help reduce spending and thus the deficits and debt, which will be good for the economy.
Fouad Ajami, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and cochair of the Working Group on Islamism and the International Order, discusses why the United States fell under the spell of Syria's PR machine for too long and what it should do now that it realizes the brutal deceit.
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 net jobs data are a small fraction of a total number of hires and that those are the numbers people should look at more closely.
