President Aníbal Cavaco Silva of Portugal and the first lady visited the Hoover Institution on Monday, November 14, 2011, for a closed-door roundtable luncheon discussion. John Raisian, the Tad and Dianne Taube Director of the Hoover Institution, along with Tom Stephenson, Hoover overseer and former ambassador to Portugal, and his wife, Barbara, hosted the event. The president offered optimistic remarks about the future for Portugal, emphasizing the austerity measures being implemented, expansion of commerce beyond its traditional trading partners, and movement by the government to support the business sector to become more entrepreneurial and competitive

In an article in the Stanford Daily, Alvin Rabushka, the David and Joan Traitel Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, discusses his advice to Texas governor Rick Perry on Perry’s flat-rate tax plan. Rabushka also commented on Herman Cain’s 9-9-9 plan: “In effect what you’ve got is labor paying a 9 percent tax, labor again paying 9 percent on income above a poverty threshold, and then again paying 9 percent as consumers.” Click here to read the article.

The Hoover Institution is cosponsoring Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen’s book launch at the CEMEX Auditorium at the Knight Management Center, Stanford Graduate School of Business, on Thursday, October 27, 2011. Arrillaga-Andreessen is the founder and advisory board chair of the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society and the author of Giving 2.0: Transform Your Giving and Our World. In Giving 2.0, readers take a fascinating journey through the fast-changing world of giving, illuminated by the compelling stories of individual philanthropists. Click here for more information.