In this podcast Russell Roberts, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and EconTalk host, discusses manufacturing with Adam Davidson of NPR's Planet Money. Referring to an article Davidson wrote for the Atlantic, the conversation looks at manufacturing’s past, present, and future.

John Taylor, the George P. Shultz Senior Fellow in Economics at the Hoover Institution and the Mary and Robert Raymond Professor of Economics at Stanford University, discusses, with Michael Krasny, his recent book First Principles: Five Keys to Restoring America's Prosperity.

James C. Miller III, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, discusses a complaint from the Federal Trade Commission against Google on the John Batchelor Show.

David Davenport, counselor to the director and a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, notes that the two to one decision overturning proposition 8, by the Ninth Circuit Federal Court, raises many questions, such as, Should two federal judges substitute their judgment for the people’s vote? Should states or the federal government decide social questions? Will other states have to recognize California's same-sex marriages? The case will be appealed to the Supreme Court, which will make the final decision.