On April 8, 2020, Josh D. Rauh presented on “The Fiscal Policy Response to the Coronavirus and What We've Learned” at a virtual meeting of the Hoover Working Group on Economic Policy. 

Edward Lazear, the Morris Arnold Cox Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and former chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, shares his perspective on why tax cuts are integral for boosting jobs and the economy.

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.

What might happen with tariffs, trade, currency manipulation, interest rates, employment, immigration, and the economy over the next year.

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

Hoover Institution Press today released Observations on the Financial Crisis, an essay in which Keith Hennessey and Edward Lazear draw on their experiences in the Bush White House to offer nineteen observations key to understanding the current financial crisis. Hennessey and Lazear highlight a number of generally overlooked points and correct popular misinterpretations of policy decisions made during the last year of the Bush administration and the first few months of the of the Obama administration.

Security in the Age of Liberal Democratic Erosion will focus on the critical security challenges facing liberal democracies and examine the threats of external adversaries and how democracies can respond.