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, noting that the employment numbers are below the prerecession growth rate and that the job and GDP growth rates are too low for a decent 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, notes that there is too much focus on what the Fed is going to do. The quantitative easing has not helped much and is causing problems with the future of fiscal and monetary policy. The markets should not depend on the Fed to react to every little up and down.
Peter Schweizer, the William J. Casey Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution and a former consultant to NBC News, discusses how Congress and the government, in giving sweetheart contracts to friends and big donors, cause a tremendous waste of taxpayer dollars.
Niall Ferguson, a Hoover senior fellow, the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University, and a noted author, discusses what would happen if euros became drachmas.
Admiral Gary Roughead, USN (ret.), an Annenberg Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution, discusses the increased US military presence in the gulf. Roughead notes that the United States has had a presence in the gulf region for more than sixty years and that our military helps maintain the peace but is fully prepared for all contingencies.
According the National Bureau of Economic Research, the US economy recovered from the recession at the beginning of the summer of 2009. Yet the recovery has been disappointing when compared to other recoveries.
Edwin Meese, a distinguished visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution who served as the seventy-fifth attorney general of the United States, discusses judicial activism and the impact the Affordable Care Act will have on the 2012 election.
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, noting that the United States is beginning to slow down again. Lazear recommends that US economic policies focus on the long term and the necessary reforms to lower taxes, improve trade policies, and put in place solid economic strategies to help businesses and the economy prosper.
Kori Schake, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and an associate professor of international security studies at the United States Military Academy, discusses the Muslim Brotherhood's rise and whether democracy can succeed in Egypt and the Middle East.
