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James Ceaser is the Harry F. Byrd Professor of Politics at the University of Virginia, director of the Program for Constitutionalism and Democracy, and was a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. He is the author of several books on American politics and American political thought, including...
Timothy Kane On Fox Business
Hoover fellow Tim Kane discusses the March jobs report and its potential impact on the Federal Reserve's decision concerning a rate hike.
Ed Lazear On CNBC's Squawk Box
Hoover fellow Ed Lazear shares his thoughts on the jobs report and how the report will influence the Fed's decision on rates. Lazear notes that the reason he pays a little bit more attention to this report is, it's not just one month, it's a series of indicators—almost all of which—are pointing in the same direction, which is down.
Ed Lazear On The John Batchelor Show (19:25)
Hoover fellow Ed Lazear discusses the jobs report and whether the Fed will raise rates. Lazear notes that the jobs report is an indicator of whether we are in a strong or weak economy and Lazear believes that the economy may be slowing.
Did Edwin Cannan Think A 100 Percent Income Tax Rate Was Fair?
The earliest 20th-century reference I have been able to find to a Laffer curve effect is in a 1901 article by London School of Economics professor Edwin Cannan.
Analysts Were Looking For A Number.....
that was [higher, lower] than actual [earnings, jobs created, unemployment rate, trade deficit, last quarter's GDP growth, etc.].
Praise And Skepticism As One Executive Sets Minimum Wage To $70,000 A Year
When Dan Price announced last week that he would cut his own pay and profits to make it possible to raise the minimum wage at Gravity Payments, his credit card processing company in Seattle, to a hefty $70,000 a year, he had little idea of the whirlwind it would stir.
Teacher Layoffs Are Coming, And It’s The Great Recession’s Fault
Forty-eight states experienced declines over the last six years, but some drops were nearly cataclysmic. Note the dramatic reductions in some southern and western states, which were particularly hard hit by the housing bust and/or the recession itself.
Why More Infrastructure Spending Is Unlikely to Create Jobs and Stimulate the Economy
Job-Saving Technologies
This is an age of anxiety about the job-killing effects of automation, with dire headlines warning that the rise of robots will render entire occupational categories obsolete. But this fatalism assumes that we are powerless to harness what we create to improve our lives – and, indeed, our jobs.
What To Do About London Housing
James Jirtle, a long-time reader of Marginal Revolution, recently wrote Tyler Cowen and asked his views about what to do about high housing prices in London. Mr. Jirtle listed 11 proposed responses and asked which Tyler thinks "are likely to be effective."
Elizabeth Cobbs: PBS Documentary Explores The Future Of Automation And The American Dream
Hoover Institution fellow Elizabeth Cobbs discusses her and James Shelley's new PBS documentary, "Cyberwork and the American Dream."
Annus horribilis: Two futuristic looks at the crash of 2009
In 2005's fictional "Countdown to a Meltdown," The Atlantic magazine's James Fallows describes America's coming economic crisis by looking back from the election of 2016 -- when the 46th president of the United States will be the first since before the Civil War to be neither Democrat nor Republican...
Pacific Century: Suing China?
Can the US Hold China Responsible for the Pandemic?
Author On British Inheritance Misses Two Important Points
In a recent article titled “Is property inheritance widening the wealth gap?” author James Gordon points out that people in Britain who own houses will often leave them to their adult children and, thus, adult children of Brits with no houses will see a large gap between their wealth and those of their housing-endowed peers.
Complete The Bayou Bridge Pipeline Now
On February 27, 2018, Judge Shelly Dick issued a preliminary injunction in Atchafalaya Basinkeeper v. United States Army Corps of Engineers temporarily blocking the completion of an extension of the Bayou Bridge Pipeline (BBP), a 24-inch buried pipeline, designed to transport up to 480,000 barrels of various grades of crude oil over about 163 miles from Lake Charles Louisiana to terminal facilities in St. James Louisiana.
Area 45: US Military
The peaks and valleys of a US military buildup.
Policy Seminar with Niall Ferguson
Niall Ferguson, the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, focused on a global history of several pandemics and discussed “1918, 1957, 2020: Big Pandemics and their Economic Consequences."
GoodFellows: One Nation Under A Groove
In the final episode of the series for 2020, Hoover senior fellows Niall Ferguson, H. R. McMaster, and John Cochrane reflect on lessons learned from the pandemic, Donald Trump’s future, the ruinous state of the Golden State, how society will differ in 2021, plus what gets them through their daily routines—a mixtape of UK punk, Philly-brand funk, and the soothing sounds of “Sweet Baby James” Taylor.
Policy Seminar with John Cochrane
John Cochrane, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, discussed “COVID-19 and Re-Opening the Economy.”