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Everyone Should Have The Retirement Plan Federal Employees Enjoy
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by Teresa Ghilarducci, Kevin Hassettvia The Washington Post
All Eyes On Digital Payments
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by Raghuram Rajanvia Project Syndicate
Kevin Hassett On His Plan To Open Up The Retirement System
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interview with Kevin Hassettvia Yahoo
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Socialism and The Constitution
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by Michael McConnellvia Defining Ideas
The Essence Of Marxism
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by Niall Fergusonvia Defining Ideas
Portrait of Karl Marx
Liberal Democracy Vs. Communism
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by Peter Berkowitzvia Defining Ideas
How Socialist Is Bernie Sanders?
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by Paul R. Gregoryvia Defining Ideas
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A Cautionary Note On Price-Level Targeting
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by Charles I. Plosservia Defining Ideas
Furman, Summers And Taxes
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by David R. Hendersonvia Defining Ideas
The Bonds Of Colonialism
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by Terry Anderson, Wendy Purnellvia Defining Ideas

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Interviews

John Cochrane On Economic Puzzles And Habits Of Mind

interview with John H. Cochranevia Conversations with Tyler
Wednesday, March 10, 2021

Hoover Institution fellow John Cochrane applies the habit of mind to a number of puzzles, including why real interest rates don’t equalize across countries. Cochrane also talks about what explains why high trading volumes and active management persist in finance, how the pandemic has affected his opinion of habit formation theories, and more.

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Policy Seminar with Michael Bordo and Mickey Levy

Wednesday, March 10, 2021
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Michael Bordo, Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Board of Governors Professor of Economics and director of the Center for Monetary and Financial History at Rutgers University, and Mickey Levy, Chief Economist, Americas and Asia at Berenberg Capital Markets, discussed their paper “Do Enlarged Fiscal Deficits Cause Inflation: The Historical Record.” John Taylor, the Mary and Robert Raymond Professor of Economics at Stanford University and the George P. Shultz Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, was the moderator.

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Analysis and Commentary

Inflation Outlook At NRO. 1970S All Over Again?

by John H. Cochranevia The Grumpy Economist
Wednesday, March 10, 2021

Essay on monetary policy in National Review Online. Short version: The Fed's monetary policy has returned to the intellectual framework of the late 1960s. At best "expectations" now float around as an independent force, manipulable by speeches, but not tied to patterns of action by the Fed as analysis since the 1980s would require. 

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Do Income Transfers Work In Developing Countries?

by Elena Pastorinovia Defining Ideas
Wednesday, March 10, 2021

Designers of such anti-poverty programs must look more closely into how markets work.

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Keeping Your Cool on the Climate Debate with Bjorn Lomborg

interview with Bjorn Lomborgvia Uncommon Knowledge
Wednesday, March 10, 2021

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In this wide-ranging discussion with Peter Robinson, Bjorn Lomborg analyzes the Biden administration’s plan to address climate change, lauds a slew of new clean energy technologies that are coming in the next decade, and discusses the upsides—and the downsides—of migrating the world from a carbon-based economy to one based on electricity generated by clean energy sources.

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Does The Fed’s Monetary Policy Threaten Inflation? (Contains Spoilers)

by John H. Cochranevia National Review
Tuesday, March 9, 2021

The central bank is headed back to the Seventies — a rerun that no one should want.

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In the News

Get To Know Thomas Sowell, Hoover Institution Fellow And Libertarian Firebrand

featuring Thomas Sowellvia Market Realist
Tuesday, March 9, 2021

Economist Thomas Sowell and his conservative-libertarian opinions about race and economics are still topics of discussion half a century after the release of his first book. Sowell is the subject of a new documentary, Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World, and an upcoming biography by Jason L. Riley, Maverick: A Biography of Thomas Sowell.

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Disruption, Money And A World Of Change, Feat. Niall Ferguson

interview with Niall Fergusonvia CoinDesk
Monday, March 30, 2020

Hoover Institution fellow Niall Ferguson talks about our disrupted world, inevitable crisis, and what it could mean for money.

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International Women's Day @ The Hoover Institution | A Focus On Women In National Security

interview with Condoleezza Rice, Elizabeth Economy, Rose Gottemoeller, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Amy Zegartvia Fellow Talks
Tuesday, March 9, 2021

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To celebrate International Women’s Day, the Director of the Hoover Institution and the 66th Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, hosted a conversation with four of our leading female national security and foreign policy scholars: Elizabeth Economy, Rose Gottemoeller, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, and Amy Zegart on March 8 from 2:15 - 3:30PM PT.
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Only In San Francisco: $61,000 Tents And $350,000 Public Toilets

by Lee Ohanianvia California on Your Mind
Tuesday, March 9, 2021

San Francisco has the highest per-capita budget of any major city in the country. At $15,650 per person, it is about 40 percent higher than Bill de Blasio’s over-the-top New York City budget. You would think San Franciscans would have wonderful city services coming out of their ears. Wrong.

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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.

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