The recent extension of the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) through October 3, 2010, is the latest government action in more than a year of bailouts of banks and other businesses.

On the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and eighteen years after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Hoover fellows discuss the collapse of communism and its impact on the world.

Hoover fellows William Damon, Caroline Hoxby, Abbas Milani, and Richard Sousa will give lectures in the Classes Without Quizzes series and explore current economic issues in the Roundtable at Stanford discussion, during the four-day Stanford University alumni homecoming weekend.

Hoover’s October Retreat began on Sunday, October 18, with before-dinner remarks by Christopher Cox, former chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission.