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Only Time Will Define Bernanke's Crisis-Era Legacy at Fed

with Allan H. Meltzervia Reuters
Thursday, January 30, 2014

(Reuters) - Ben Bernanke did not hesitate when asked whether he was confident that his signature response to the Great Recession would work.Well, the problem with QE is that it works in practice but it

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Marginal Tax Rates: Singing Taxman to My Class

by David R. Hendersonvia Econlib
Wednesday, January 29, 2014

UPDATE BELOW: Often, when I teach my classes about marginal tax rates, I give them a little history about such rates. They're shocked when I tell them that the top U.S. federal marginal tax rate on individual income in the...

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Drugs vs. The Drug War: A Response to Michael Gerson

with David R. Hendersonvia Washington Post
Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Conservatives worry about the consequences of drugs, but never the consequences of the drug war.

Analysis and Commentary

The Inequality Bogeyman

by Thomas Sowellvia Creators Syndicate
Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Thomas Sowell Opinion Columns - The Inequality Bogeyman

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Nina Munk on Poverty, Development, and the Idealist

with Russ Robertsvia EconTalk
Monday, January 27, 2014

Nina Munk, journalist and author of The Idealist: Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about her book. Munk spent six years following Jeffrey Sachs and the evolution of the Millennium Villages...

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If Obama's Worried About Poverty, He Should Focus On It, Not Income Inequality

by David R. Hendersonvia FoxNews.com
Friday, January 24, 2014

Income inequality in the United States today cannot be explained by rich people exploiting poor people.

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David Henderson on the Special Report With Bret Baier (1:11)

with David R. Hendersonvia Special Report with Bret Baier (Fox News)
Friday, January 24, 2014

Watch previous Special Report shows aired on Fox News Channel and exclusive online political coverage.

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Michelle Smith, Working Behind the Scenes to Shape the Fed’s Public Image

with Kevin Warshvia Washington Post
Friday, January 24, 2014

A story about what it’s like to operate out of the public eye but in the upper echelons of the U.S. government.

Watch the webcast of the “Innovative Ideas for the Future of US Public-Sector Pensions” symposium

Monday, January 27, 2014

On Friday, January 24, Hoover senior fellow and Stanford Graduate School of Business professor Joshua Rauh finished his online course The Finance of Retirement and Pensions with a symposium entitled “Innovative Ideas for the Future of US Public-Sector Pensions.” Watch the webcast here.

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Lee Ohanian on the John Batchelor Show (19:23)

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Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Guests: Larry Kudlow, Kudlow Report, CNBC; Cumulus Media radio. Steve Moore, WSJ & chief economist, Heritage Foundation. William Whalen, Hoover. Lee Ohanian, UCLA & Hoover. David Malpass, Encima Global.

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