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    My Hoover colleague Russ Roberts just finished a nice video on inequality. Among other takeaways, he stresses that the people who were rich in 1980 are not the same people or even families who are rich now. It is not true that "the rich got richer." He also tracks individuals through time, and poor individuals got richer to. There is a lot more economic mobility in the US than the standard talking points.

    May 16, 2019 by John H. Cochrane via The Grumpy Economist via Hoover Daily Report
    Our Modern ‘Satyricon’
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    Our Modern ‘Satyricon’

    Sometime around A.D. 60, in the age of Emperor Nero, a Roman court insider named Gaius Petronius wrote a satirical Latin novel, “The Satyricon,” about moral corruption in Imperial Rome. The novel’s general landscape was Rome’s transition from an agrarian republic to a globalized multicultural superpower.

    May 15, 2019 by Victor Davis Hanson via American Greatness via Hoover Daily Report
    What We Learned About 70% Tax Rates 50 Years Ago
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    What We Learned About 70% Tax Rates 50 Years Ago

    Milton Friedman explains what happened when federal tax rates actually reached seventy percent over fifty years ago. As tax rates go up, taxpayers have more of a reason to avoid paying those taxes. Loopholes go hand-in-hand with higher tax rates, which is why lower rates on a broader base of income leads to a more equitable system.

    May 16, 2019 featuring Milton Friedman via undefined via PolicyEd
    A Progressive Plan That Aids Loan Sharks
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    A Progressive Plan That Aids Loan Sharks

    Capping interest rates on credit cards will hurt the poor most

    May 15, 2019 by David R. Henderson via undefined via Defining Ideas
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    New American Schools: A Short, Opinionated History, Part II
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    New American Schools: A Short, Opinionated History, Part II

    This essay is part of the The Moonshot for Kids project, a joint initiative of the Fordham Institute and the Center for American Progress. This is the second of three parts. The first ran last week, and the third will appear in the next issue of the Education Gadfly Weekly.

    May 15, 2019 by Chester E. Finn Jr. via Thomas Fordham Institute via Hoover Daily Report
    Why California May Be The Cure For What Ails Harry And Meghan
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    Why California May Be The Cure For What Ails Harry And Meghan

    This December marks 52 years since a British queen made Southern California her new home—not an actual monarch, mind you, but the legendary ocean liner Queen Mary that remains to this day a tourist attraction in Long Beach.

    May 15, 2019 by Bill Whalen via undefined via California on Your Mind
    The Baby Bust Goes To School
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    The Baby Bust Goes To School

    It’s not easy to surprise demographers, given the long timelines with which they work. But back in 2007, when the number of babies born in the United States hit the all-time high of 4.32 million, topping even the baby boom peak, few could foresee the baby bust that was about to come.

    May 16, 2019 by Michael J. Petrilli via Education Next via Hoover Daily Report
    Sanders And AOC's Elitist Credit Card Caps
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    Sanders And AOC's Elitist Credit Card Caps

    Senator Bernie Sanders and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have announced plans to introduce legislation that would limit the interest rate that credit card companies are allowed to charge customers. Although there is currently no federal limit, some state governments have limits. Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez propose capping the annual rate of interest on credit card debt at 15 percent.

    May 15, 2019 by David R. Henderson via EconLog via Hoover Daily Report
    Interviews
    Victor Davis Hanson On Notre Dame, Trump, Civil War, And More!
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    Victor Davis Hanson On Notre Dame, Trump, Civil War, And More!

    (10:33) Hoover Institution fellow Victor Davis Hanson talks about his book The Case for Trump, as well as Notre Dame Cathedral, the possibility of another US Civil War, political issues, and much more.

    May 15, 2019 interview with Victor Davis Hanson via The All New Dennis Miller Option via Hoover Daily Report
    Michael Spence: Auto Tariff Delay 'Good News' For China Trade Talks
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    Michael Spence: Auto Tariff Delay 'Good News' For China Trade Talks

    Hoover Institution fellow Michael Spence discusses how the US delaying tariffs on auto imports plays into trade negotiations with China.

    May 15, 2019 interview with Michael Spence via Yahoo Finance via Hoover Daily Report
    Politics As War: A Conversation With David Davenport
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    Politics As War: A Conversation With David Davenport

    Hoover Institution fellow David Davenport, coauthor with Gordon Lloyd of How Public Policy Became War, discusses how we lost “the cool, deliberate sense of the community” in making public policy and instead turned to the metaphor of war as the basis for political action.

    May 16, 2019 by David Davenport via Law and Liberty via Hoover Daily Report
    John Yoo: Comey Or Brennan? Dispute Erupts Over Who Pushed Steele Dossier
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    John Yoo: Comey Or Brennan? Dispute Erupts Over Who Pushed Steele Dossier

    Hoover Institution fellow John Yoo talks about the finger-pointing between high-level government officials over who pushed the unverified Steele dossier that was used in the FISA application to investigate President Trump.

    May 16, 2019 interview with John Yoo via Fox News via Hoover Daily Report
    John Yoo: Executive Privilege And Congressional Oversight
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    John Yoo: Executive Privilege And Congressional Oversight

    Hoover Institution fellow John Yoo discusses the proper balance between congressional oversight and executive privilege.

    May 15, 2019 interview with John Yoo via The Federalist Society via Hoover Daily Report
    In the News
    Ayaan Hirsi Ali Warns Of Islamic Anti-Semitism
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    Ayaan Hirsi Ali Warns Of Islamic Anti-Semitism

    Islamic anti-Semitism is of a “scale and scope” that most people in the West do not understand and is therefore all the more insidious, the controversial critic of the Muslim religion, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, told a capacity audience at the Jewish Public Library (JPL) in Montreal on May 13.

    May 15, 2019 quoting Ayaan Hirsi Ali via The Canadian Jewish News via Hoover Daily Report
    Now You See It, Now You Don’t
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    Now You See It, Now You Don’t

    Back in 2012, I stumbled across figures on the U.S. government’s classification of documents and was stunned. In 2011, 92,064,862 of them had been sequestered and 26,058,678 of those given “top secret” status. (Who even knew that so many documents could be generated by a single government?) And that top-secret figure, in turn, represented a jump of 20,373,216 over all the documents classified in 1995. As such, it offered a striking sense of just how “secure” America’s national security state, including its (by then) 17 intelligence agencies, had become.

    May 15, 2019 quoting Jack Goldsmith via Antiwar.com via Hoover Daily Report
    College Athletes May See A Payday Soon, But The Money Won't Come From The NCAA
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    College Athletes May See A Payday Soon, But The Money Won't Come From The NCAA

    The NCAA’s new working group is tasked with holding back the tide. It is charged with examining rights that would seem inalienable – a college athlete’s claim to his or her own name, likeness and image – while preserving the pretense of amateurism.

    May 14, 2019 quoting Condoleezza Rice via Courier Journal via Hoover Daily Report
    Durham Vs. The Deep State
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    Durham Vs. The Deep State

    Drug stores in deep state neighborhoods around Washington, D.C., reported a run on Maalox after news broke that Attorney General William Barr had appointed Connecticut U.S. Attorney John Durham to investigate the origins of the Trump/Russia collusion hoax.

    May 15, 2019 quoting John Yoo via Patriot Post via Hoover Daily Report
    Critics' Picks: The Best Arts Events In Town This Week
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    Critics' Picks: The Best Arts Events In Town This Week

    Join author Elizabeth Cobbs for a book talk about her newest historical novel, The Tubman Command. A book signing follows the reading.

    May 15, 2019 mentioning Elizabeth Cobbs via Charleston City Paper via Hoover Daily Report
  1. The Baby Bust Goes To School
  2. What We Learned About 70% Tax Rates 50 Years Ago
  3. Two Videos
  4. Politics As War: A Conversation With David Davenport
  5. John Yoo: Comey Or Brennan? Dispute Erupts Over Who Pushed Steele Dossier
  6. Why California May Be The Cure For What Ails Harry And Meghan
  7. Victor Davis Hanson On Notre Dame, Trump, Civil War, And More!
  8. A Progressive Plan That Aids Loan Sharks
  9. Ayaan Hirsi Ali Warns Of Islamic Anti-Semitism
  10. Sanders And AOC's Elitist Credit Card Caps
  11. New American Schools: A Short, Opinionated History, Part II
  12. Our Modern ‘Satyricon’
  13. Critics' Picks: The Best Arts Events In Town This Week
  14. John Yoo: Executive Privilege And Congressional Oversight
  15. Durham Vs. The Deep State
  16. Now You See It, Now You Don’t
  17. Michael Spence: Auto Tariff Delay 'Good News' For China Trade Talks
  18. College Athletes May See A Payday Soon, But The Money Won't Come From The NCAA
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