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[Subscription Required] A new study shows the 2012 tax hike drove high earners from the state.
October 21, 2019 via The Wall Street Journal via Hoover Daily Report
Costly strikes in the Chicago Public Schools and at General Motors stem from a failed model of labor relations.
October 21, 2019 via undefined via Defining Ideas
In turning out woke and broke graduates, they have a lot to answer for.
October 22, 2019 via National Review via Hoover Daily Report
Ike’s idea, codified in a 1992 treaty, is still a good one. The U.S. shouldn’t abandon the pact.
October 20, 2019 via The Wall Street Journal via Hoover Daily Report
Blame our schizophrenic foreign policy.
October 22, 2019 via FrontPage Mag.com via Hoover Daily Report
Ever since the New Deal, Congress has given the executive far too sweeping a mandate to interfere with huge sectors of the market.
October 20, 2019 via The Atlantic via Hoover Daily Report
Private equity buyouts arouse intense interest among investors and business owners as well as policymakers and politicians, but the difficulty of assembling the data needed for a systematic evaluation makes assessing their effects hard. This column uses data on thousands of buyouts in the US to examine the effects on employment, job reallocation, productivity, and worker compensation. The findings suggest that the effects differ greatly by type of buyout, with the credit conditions at the time of buyout, and with the post-buyout evolution of credit conditions and the macroeconomy, casting doubt on the efficacy of ‘one-size-fits-all’ policy prescriptions for private equity.
October 22, 2019 via VoxEu.org (Centre for Economic Policy Research) via Hoover Daily Report
Conservatives’ message was individual liberty and limited government, but it’s been narrowed to a defense of capitalism and free markets. This message is a dead-end for younger voters, especially.
October 22, 2019 via Townhall Review via Hoover Daily Report
Achieving universal access to contraception would save and improve millions of lives, and put societies on a faster track to shared prosperity. With so much at stake, the world should be devoting far more attention and resources to this goal.
October 21, 2019 via Project Syndicate via Hoover Daily Report
The Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, in its June 2010 edition of Region magazine, published a lengthy interview with Robert E. Hall that covers a broad range of economic issues. One discusses tax policy. As most readers of this site know, Bob is my coauthor of four books (1983, 1985, 1995, 2007) and numerous articles on the flat tax.
October 21, 2019 via Flat Tax via Hoover Daily Report
Hoover Institution fellow Larry Diamond talks about the threat China’s model of authoritarian capitalism poses to liberal democracy in the United States and around the world. Economics drives politics, and it’s easy to admire China’s growth while looking past things like increasing surveillance and lack of respect for norms and the rule of law.
October 21, 2019 via New Books Network via Hoover Daily Report
(12:23) Hoover Institution fellow Chester Finn diecusses his new book Learning in the Fast Lane: The Past, Present, and Future of Advanced Placement.
October 21, 2019 via Charlie Brennan (KMOX) via Hoover Daily Report
Hoover Institution fellow John Yoo discusses whether Mick Mulvaney should remain chief of staff as well as the legality of the Democrats' reasons for impeachment.
October 21, 2019 via Fox News via Hoover Daily Report
Hoover Institution fellow Larry Diamond says the single most important takeaway from their study was after three and a half days of talking about political issues — not politicians or candidates — the percentage of people who thought American democracy was doing “reasonably well” doubled.
October 17, 2019 via Here and Now (WBUR) via Hoover Daily Report
Hoover Institution fellow Marko Konalakis interviews David Lampton concerning how Beijing and Washington could diffuse the disruptive tensions of this growing rivalry.
October 22, 2019 via WorldAffairs via Hoover Daily Report
The Left “detests” President Donald Trump for a lot of reasons beyond his winning the 2016 election “and aborting the progressive project,” columnist Victor Davis Hanson wrote.
October 21, 2019 via World Tribune via Hoover Daily Report
[Subscription Required] The American Investment Council has produced digital advertisements and a report to highlight the industry’s positive impact on the U.S. economy.
October 21, 2019 via The Wall Street Journal via Hoover Daily Report
An Indo-US forum held in New Delhi on Monday witnessed an unusual war of words between BJP National General Secretary Ram Madhav and former US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice after the former asserted that India is in a better relationship with China as compared to the US.
October 21, 2019 via The Free Press Journal via Hoover Daily Report
Apparently persuaded by groundless conspiracy theories of foreign meddling, the Kremlin and Russia’s security agencies seem impervious to calls for them to adopt a more relaxed approach to their critics and opposition groups.
October 22, 2019 via VOA News via Hoover Daily Report
With a handful of Republicans criticizing President Donald Trump over his actions on Ukraine, Syria and his initial choice of his own Florida golf resort to host next year’s Group of Seven summit, the Republican president issued this salvo: “The Republicans have to get tougher and fight.”
October 21, 2019 via Las Vegas Review Journal via Hoover Daily Report
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