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Pessimists often compare today's troubled America to a tottering late Rome or an insolvent and descending British Empire. But medieval Europe (roughly A.D. 500 to 1450) is the more apt comparison.
October 12, 2016 via Townhall via Hoover Daily Report
The central bank must adopt a medium-term strategy and give more power to regional branches.
October 12, 2016 via undefined via Defining Ideas
British prime minister Theresa May has set off a royal dust-up with her proposal to loosen England’s half-century-old shackles on grammar schools, the British term for selective-admission public secondary schools focused on preparation for university.
October 12, 2016 via Flypaper (Fordham Education Blog) via Hoover Daily Report
"Five Books to Change Liberals' Minds" is the title of a remarkable post by Cass Sunstein.
October 13, 2016 via Grumpy Economist via Hoover Daily Report
I have been thinking about consciousness recently. What is the source of human consciousness? Is it merely physical? Can it be uploaded? Duplicated via artificial intelligence? Will machines get conscious enough to feel and to care the way we do?
October 13, 2016 via Medium via Hoover Daily Report
He fights back.
October 13, 2016 via EconLog via Hoover Daily Report
Adam Davidson, in the New Yorker, highlights the thinking of Peter Navarro, a Ph.D. economist who is on Donald Trump's economic team.
October 12, 2016 via EconLog via Hoover Daily Report
A little more than 99 years ago, and several months after the United States declared its entry into the Great War against the Central Powers of Europe, Charles Evans Hughes declared in a widely publicized speech that “the [constitutional] power to wage war is the power to wage war successfully.”
October 12, 2016 via Lawfare via Hoover Daily Report
The central bank is lowering the policy rate despite its relatively pessimistic assessment of inflationary pressures.
October 13, 2016 via Live Mint via Hoover Daily Report
There is no getting away from the degradation that is taking place, on colossal scale, in US presidential politics. The sense of two dysfunctional candidates beating each other over the remains of the US republic as it suffers the last paroxysm of what might have been an interesting future are all too evident.
October 12, 2016 via CounterCurrents.org via Hoover Daily Report
Tuesday's federal court ruling won't stop the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau from acting, but will give the president more control over its activities.
October 11, 2016 via Reason via Hoover Daily Report
By exposing the grievances of blue-collar white voters, the Republican nominee has shaped his party in ways that could last long after the election ends.
October 13, 2016 via The Atlantic via Hoover Daily Report
Russia’s ambassador to Washington is disappointed. Despite great potential for cooperation, Sergei Kislyak told an audience Tuesday at Johns Hopkins University that the two countries are locked in “unfriendly discussions.” Wouldn’t the world be safer and more stable if these two powers got along?
October 13, 2016 via Bloomberg via Hoover Daily Report
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