As the week begins, the smart money in Washington is betting that the House will adopt the Senate health care package and send it to the President by week’s end. . . .

The following is a reasonable summary, in my view, of the available evidence on the impacts of discretionary fiscal and monetary policy actions taken before, during, and after the recent financial crisis: . . .

"One of the disturbing facts of history is that so many civilizations collapse," warns anthropologist Jared Diamond in "Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed." . . .

Nick Siekierski will outline the history of the founding of the library of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, and highlight some famous "treasures" from its archives at 11 a.m. Saturday, March 6, in the Fireside Room at Burgess Recreation Center, 700 Alma St. in Menlo Park. . . .