Wednesday night, the Hoover Institution put on the best show in town with a preview of the new film The Price of Peace from Free to Choose Media and a discussion between our own Peter Robinson and Victor Davis Hanson. While I can’t do justice to the event here, hopefully, this report gives everyone some incentive to see the film, get to the next event in person, or even catch an empty U-haul truck on its return and move to Palo Alto where I will buy you a beer. I’ll also apologize to all involved for any mistakes in my recollection of the events.
Hoover Institution fellow Michael Auslin discusses what might transpire in the meeting between President Trump and Kim Jong-un, the supreme leader of North Korea.
The Fama Portfolio, is a new book from the University of Chicago Press. This is a collection of Gene Fama's papers, edited by Toby Moskowitz and me. It includes introductory essays by a group of Gene's distinguished colleagues, Ken French, Bill Schwert, René Stulz, Cliff Asness, John Liew, Campbell Harvey, Jan Liu, Amit Seru, and Amir Sufi.
Nearly ten years ago, the collapse of the sub-prime mortgage market sent the U.S. economy into a tailspin. As housing prices dropped and unemployment climbed, vulnerable households found themselves unable to refinance the mortgages they borrowed under better economic circumstances. Struggling to meet ever-increasing monthly payments, more and more homeowners defaulted on their mortgages.
Sonipat: Professor Avirup Bose and Professor Natasha Nayak, Assistant Professors at the Jindal Global Law School (JGLS) of the O.P. Jindal Global University (JGU) have been awarded the 2018 Thomas Edison Innovation Fellowship award and JGLS is the only law school in Asia whose professors have been awarded the prestigious fellowship award
Hoover Institution fellow Niall Ferguson discusses his concerns about the world we live in and what lies in store for future generations. Unsustainable levels of government debt, the implications of an increasingly connected world, religious fundamentalism, and rising inequality are just some of the issues preying on his mind.
