Annenberg Conference Room, Lou Henry Hoover Building
Paul Gregory, Hoover visiting fellow, endowed professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Houston, Texas, and research professor at the German Institute for Economic Research in Berlin, discussed “Russia’s Double Dip Recession.”
Annenberg Conference Room, Lou Henry Hoover Building
Michael Boskin, Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and T. M. Friedman Professor of Economics at Stanford University, discussed “Why Is Social Security So Hard to Reform and What Can Be Done About It?”
"Though it mostly went unnoticed, the House Financial Services Committee voted in favor of the Financial Choice Act. This legislation would substantially weaken the Dodd-Frank financial reforms." So writes Mark Thoma in "Killing Banking Rules Will Invite a Whopper of a Recession," Fiscal Times, May 8, 2017.
Annenberg Conference Room, Lou Henry Hoover Building
Dan Kessler, Keith and Jan Hurlbut Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and Professor at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, discussed “Health Reform: Where Do We Go from Here.”
The Working Group on Economic Policy brings together experts on economic and financial policy to study key developments in the U.S. and global economies, examine their interactions, and develop specific policy proposals.