Is Prestige Worth It?
The obsession of many high school students and their parents about getting into a prestige college or university is part of the social scene of our time...
June 17, 2008 via Creators Syndicate via Hoover Daily ReportThe obsession of many high school students and their parents about getting into a prestige college or university is part of the social scene of our time...
June 17, 2008 via Creators Syndicate via Hoover Daily ReportOnly with Tim Russert's sudden death at the age of 58 has his true stature as a landmark journalist become as widely recognized as it has long deserved to be...
June 17, 2008 via Creators Syndicate via Hoover Daily ReportFeith discusses the war blunders...
June 17, 2008 via Uncommon Knowledge via Hoover Daily ReportIsraeli observers sneered...
June 17, 2008 via Ha'aretz (Israel) via Hoover Daily ReportThe mortgage executives who gathered in a blond-wood conference room in Southern California studied their internal reports with growing alarm...
June 16, 2008 via Washington Post via Hoover Daily ReportEvery year there are a few memorable instances of U.S. congressional testimony that have an immediate impact on economic policy...
June 16, 2008 via Bloomberg via Hoover Daily ReportMy new book, The Price of Everything: A Parable of Possibility and Prosperity, is a novel that tries to help the reader understand a bunch of related topics--the role of prices in steering resources, the role of prices in creating innovation, the role of prices in letting us weave our own dreams of what we want to buy and how we want to spend our lives...
June 16, 2008 via Cafe Hayek via Hoover Daily ReportUphill bids by Brazil and India to win permanent seats on an enlarged United Nations Security Council may get a boost if Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) becomes the next American president...
June 16, 2008 via CNSNews.com (VA) via Hoover Daily ReportPicking up on themes we’ve touched on here, here, and here, last week NYT columnist David Brooks weighed in on the culture of debt in the United States...
June 16, 2008 via Acton Institute via Hoover Daily ReportToday, Stanford is officially launching its YouTube channel (get it here). Among the videos, you will find Oprah Winfrey’s commencement speech (given this weekend) and other graduation speeches from recent years...
June 16, 2008 via Oculture.com via Hoover Daily ReportDeputy Secretary of State John D. Negroponte will address the fourth North American Forum at 12:15 p.m. on Tuesday, June 17 in the Briefing Center of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, 1615 H Street, N.W., Washington, DC. Deputy Secretary of State Negroponte will take questions from the forum participants following his remarks...
June 16, 2008 via U.S. Department of State via Hoover Daily ReportWashington Post staff writers Alec Klein and Zach Goldfarb were online Monday, June 16 at 12:30 p.m. ET with guest John Taylor, Stanford economics professor, to discuss their three-part narrative series about the U.S. housing bust...
June 16, 2008 via Washington Post via Hoover Daily ReportThe placards of the anti-war protesters in Parliament Square blamed him for all the world’s ills, from slaughter in Iraq to the death of a baby in Africa every three minutes...
June 16, 2008 via Times (UK) via Hoover Daily ReportThank you very much, Ron, for that kind introduction and for the critically important work that you and your colleagues do at Lawrence Livermore...
June 16, 2008 via News Blaze (CA) via Hoover Daily ReportThe black-tie party at Washington's swank Mayflower Hotel seemed a fitting celebration of the biggest American housing boom since the 1950s: filet mignon and lobster, a champagne room and hundreds of mortgage brokers, real estate agents and their customers gyrating to a Latin band...
June 15, 2008 via Washington Post via Hoover Daily Report
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