Edward Lazear, the Morris Arnold Cox Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and former chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, offers insights into the current economic recovery, noting that we are a long way from where we need to be. In assessing Mitt Romney’s plan for the economy, Lazear says that the US economy is not seeing the recovery we need because the focus has been on short-term growth that gives a quick bump to the economy but does not really change anything. The United States, Lazear avers, needs long-term structural changes, such as broadening the tax base, lowering the tax rates, and improving trade, for the economy to recover.

Hoover Institution Fellows Edward Lazear and Niall Ferguson: COVID-19: Today’s Historic Jobs Report.

Hoover Institution Senior Fellow Edward P. Lazear was sworn in as chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers on Monday, March 6 in Washington, D.C.

Revisiting the founding father to whom a national debt, properly funded, represented “a national blessing.” By Michael W. McConnell.

Arthur Brooks, president of the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), gave a talk on “Bringing America Back Together.” He started by arguing that the degree of polarization in America has reached unprecedented proportions. He suggested that institutions such as Hoover and AEI have an intellectual and moral responsibility to advocate the ideas on which they were formed. He believed that if such ideas were applied, the broad-based economic growth that would follow would take America away from the polarized situation it finds itself in right now. 

Medicare needs to cut costs, escape political interference, and stay in business. Here’s how it can do all three. By Daniel P. Kessler.