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Hoover Institution economists have just written a new paper describing a number of significant economic problems within California and how to fix them.
October 29, 2018 via Hoover Institution via Analysis
A new book proposes a rollback of the administrative state.
October 26, 2018 via undefined via Defining Ideas
McMaster recounts what attracted him to military service and lessons learned from a career as a “warrior thinker.”
October 28, 2018 via undefined via Matters of Policy & Politics
A “caravan”—the euphemism for a current foot-army of more than 10,000 Central Americans—of would-be border crossers has now passed into Mexico. The marchers promise they will continue 1,000 miles and more northward to the U.S. border, despite warnings from President Trump that as unauthorized immigrants they will be turned away. No one has yet explained how, or by whom or what, such a mass of humanity has been supplied, cared for, and organized.
October 28, 2018 via American Greatness via Hoover Daily Report
A foolish and expensive law suit should be brought to a quick end On October 24, 2018, Barbara Underwood, the Attorney General of New York (NYAG) filed a 91 page complaint against Exxon Mobil Corporation, which in the words of the New York Times headline demonstrated that “New York Sues Exxon Mobil, Saying It Deceived Shareholders of Climate Change.” The elaboration inside the article contained allegations by the prosecutors that Exxon “essentially kept two sets of books when accounting for the effects of climate change” which makes it appear as though the NYAG’s is a cut and dried case of financial fraud for illicit corporate advantage.
October 26, 2018 via Forbes via Hoover Daily Report
Another lonely man with a gun has murdered innocents. Whether you call it mass murder or terrorism or a hate crime, it doesn’t matter. And as a Jew, I am deeply concerned about the rise of antisemitism. But there is something that cuts across these all to frequent acts of violence. It’s almost always a lonely man with a gun. Understandably, there’s a lot of focus on the gun part. But I want to think about the lonely man.
October 29, 2018 via Medium via Hoover Daily Report
The Romanovs celebrated their dynasty’s tricentennial in 1913 – just five years before communists gunned down Nicholas II and his family in the basement of a house in Yekaterinburg. Under Romanov rule, which began in 1613 with Mikhail Romanov, Russia grew to become the biggest land empire in the world. These czars’ talents and foibles have long fascinated historians, the public and artists; a new Amazon series tells eight fictionalized stories of people who believe they are Romanov descendants. (Amazon chief executive Jeffrey P. Bezos owns The Washington Post.)
October 26, 2018 via The Washington Post via Hoover Daily Report
Three forces will cause US long-term interest rates to continue to rise. But, in all likelihood, short-term rates will not increase fast enough to give the Federal Reserve sufficient room for monetary stimulus before the next economic downturn begins.
October 28, 2018 via Project Syndicate via Hoover Daily Report
Christopher Steele deliberately constructed his Trump dossier to be unverifiable. As long as it remains invalidated, it hangs over the Trump administration, even though the Clinton campaign was identified as its funder and Steele refused to vouch for it under oath. Apparently he did not express such doubts when he was peddling the dossier to a skeptical press.
October 29, 2018 via Ricochet via Hoover Daily Report
Primary education in Nevada is in a pitiful state, with no obvious path of exit or reform. Clark County has the fifth-largest school district in the nation and some of the lowest-performing schools. Clearly, some major transformation in educational policy is needed to shake up the system. But instead of meeting the challenge, state and local politics are filled with gridlock and confusion.
October 27, 2018 via Las Vegas Review-Journal via Hoover Daily Report
Economist and author Michael Munger of Duke University talks about his book, Tomorrow 3.0, with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Munger analyzes the rise of companies like Uber and AirBnB as an example of how technology lowers transactions costs. Users and providers can find each other more easily through their smartphones, increasing opportunity. Munger expects these costs to fall elsewhere and predicts an expansion of the sharing economy to a wide array of items in our daily lives.
October 28, 2018 via EconTalk via Hoover Daily Report
Hanna Skandera, Editor-in-chief of The Line and former Secretary of Education for New Mexico, sits down with Paul E. Peterson to discuss the four-day school week and Pathway 2 Tomorrow, a call for innovative proposals to broaden education.
October 29, 2018 via The Education Exchange via Hoover Daily Report
The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) multiemployer pension insurance program faces projected insolvency, driven by systemic underfunding of multiemployer pension plans. To address this brewing crisis, Congress has established a joint select committee to develop multiemployer pension reforms.
October 19, 2018 via Mercatus Center via Hoover Daily Report
One of the most surprising parts of Adam Smith’s An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations is his Chapter Seven of Book Four, titled “Of Colonies.”In it, Smith discusses the effects of colonization by governments in Europe. Of particular interest is Smith’s discussion of the effects of the British government’s treatment of the thirteen colonies in North America.
October 26, 2018 via Econlog via Hoover Daily Report
Hoover Institution fellow Richard Epstein discusses whether Michael Avenatti should stand trial for his role in the Kavanugh hearings, international law and the Jamal Khashoggi murder, and President Trump's options to stop the migrant caravan from Central America from entering the US.
October 27, 2018 via Law Talk via Hoover Daily Report
Hoover Institution fellow Lanhee Chen discusses the congressional elections.
October 28, 2018 via Bloomberg via Hoover Daily Report
Hoover Institution fellow Lanhee Chen discusses the state of the economy ahead of the midterm elections.
October 29, 2018 via CNBC via Hoover Daily Report
As the midterm elections approach, a new survey says a majority of Americans do not feel their financial situation has improved since Donald Trump was elected president in 2016.
October 28, 2018 via Market Watch via Hoover Daily Report
Have you heard any good news lately? In the clamor of furious partisans, furious weather, and furious rhetoric, it doesn’t seem like it. Random conversations on the bus or in the checkout line, if they go beyond cute shoes or that book I’m holding, often end with sighs and head-shaking. Prices going up, kids don’t listen, can’t afford my mortgage, worried about my health coverage. Wall Street banksters, rotten Republicans, demon Democrats—the world’s a mess.
October 25, 2018 via World Magazine via Hoover Daily Report
North and South Korea continued joint military talks Friday in the truce-village of Panmunjom. The talks took place as the Joint Security Area (JSA) began implementing new protocols designed to reduce tension, while North Korea continued criticizing the United States’ push for continued sanctions.
October 26, 2018 via VOA News via Hoover Daily Report
Sunday next but one, 11th November 2018, will be the hundredth anniversary of the end of what we now know as the First World War. Those who died did not know, and would scarcely have believed, that "the war to end all wars" would be followed only 21 years later by the Second World War.
October 28, 2018 via Politics Web via Hoover Daily Report
Chancellor Angela Merkel's junior coalition partners gave her conservatives until next year to deliver more policy results, threatening to end their alliance if there is no improvement after both parties suffered in a regional election on Sunday.
October 27, 2018 via US News via Hoover Daily Report
This coming Friday, I’ll be giving the luncheon (keynote) speech at an event at the University of Texas in Dallas. The title of my talk: “How Freedom Solves People’s Problems.” I chose the title a couple of months ago. In working on the talk last week, I realized that the language is too passive. It makes it sound as if freedom solves people’s problems without their doing anything. That often does happen: the price of computing power has fallen like a stone without any input from me. But often people need to use their freedom to solve their problems. So my actual talk will be on “How Freedom Helps People Solve Problems.”
October 28, 2018 via EconLog via Hoover Daily Report
While California is an economic powerhouse, people living in the Golden State would enjoy brighter futures and hundreds of billions of dollars in cost savings if market-oriented policy reforms were adopted and regulations eased, suggests a new Hoover Institution report.
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