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The Promises And Risks Of Digital Finance
How can we reap the benefits of financial innovation while ensuring a sound, trustworthy financial system? Steven Davis asks IMF head Kristalina Georgieva at Jackson Hole.
September 16, 2026
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On Uncommon Knowledge, Richard A. Epstein, the Peter and Kirsten Bedford Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, discusses inequality, taxes, globalization, free markets, politics, health care, and gay marriage. Epstein states that the central theme of his book The Classical Liberal Constitution is to develop sufficiently stable government structures and individual rights to raise everybody simultaneously when the government has to regulate or tax. The prevailing politics is “I win, you lose,” and the Supreme Court has done nothing to slow this trend. Epstein notes that a shrinking economic pie is always a losing proposition. He refers to the famous quote concerning his philosophy, “May justice reign even if the heavens fall.” Epstein also discusses other Supreme Court decisions, including the constitutionality of gay marriage.
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Examining Healthcare Markets: Fraud And Competition
(23:52) Hoover Institution fellow Dr. Brian Miller testifies in front of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Administrative State, Regulatory Reform, and Antitrust in a hearing titled "Examining Healthcare Markets: Fraud and Competition."
September 14, 2026
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Should We Regulate AI (Before It's Too Late)?
Artificial intelligence could become one of the most consequential drivers of productivity and economic growth in a generation. Yet concerns about job displacement, misinformation, and political disruption have prompted calls to regulate the technology before its effects are fully understood. History shows that major innovations disrupt existing industries while creating new forms of work and enterprise that policymakers rarely anticipate. Premature regulation risks entrenching established firms, limiting competition, and expanding government influence over information. The challenge is to address genuine harms while preserving the freedom and experimentation that allow innovation to advance.