Vice Chair Richard H. Clarida of the Federal Reserve Board presented “The Federal Reserve's New Framework: Context and Consequences” at the "The Road Ahead for Central Banks" section of the seminar series sponsored by the Hoover Economic Policy Working Group, Hoover Institution, Stanford University. A wide range of questions were asked and comments were offered by the 150 members of the Zoom audience, including charts presented by David Papell of the University of Houston and also by Robert Hall of the Hoover Institution. John Taylor, the Mary and Robert Raymond Professor of Economics at Stanford University and the George P. Shultz Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, was the moderator.

The fall of Egyptian strongman Hosni Mubarak has occasioned all manner of democracy happy-talk in the West.

Friday’s jobs report was a disappointment, but here’s one sign the labor market may be improving: More people are quitting their jobs.

George P. Shultz, the Thomas W. and Susan B. Ford Distinguished Fellow at the Hoover Institution, was chosen as one of the 2010 inductees into the California Museum’s California Hall of Fame.

The Hoover Institution held its eleventh Southern California Conference on January 30, 2014, in Pasadena.  That conference, part of a series that includes annual programs in both Pasadena and Century City, offered presentations by Hoover fellows on a wide range of public policy issues, from education to Middle East relations to the upcoming elections.  Included here is a selection of podcasts and chartcasts from the conference.

A Man of Letters (Encounter Books, April 2007) by Thomas Sowell is a collection of personal correspondence between Thomas Sowell and leaders in American political thought beginning in the 1960’s. Through a series of personal and candid letters, Sowell examines social and political issues of the times with colleagues and friends—including his mentors George Stigler and Milton Friedman.