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The stakes could not be higher for minority youngsters, for whom a decent education is often their one best chance for a better life.
July 23, 2020 via Fox News via Hoover Daily Report
The UK has a critical role to play in countering aggression.
July 23, 2020 via Spectator via Hoover Daily Report
Hoover Institution fellow Steven Davis testifies before the House Financial Services Committee on “The Heroes Act: Providing for a Strong Economic Recovery from COVID-19." Davis's testimony is here.
July 23, 2020 via Committee on Financial Services, U.S. House of Representatives via Hoover Daily Report
To the notion of ”evergreen” stories (in journalistic parlance: a topic that never grows old): is California governable?
July 24, 2020 via undefined via California on Your Mind
The health of the two presidential candidates.
July 23, 2020 via undefined via Matters of Policy & Politics
This note presents a preliminary approach to the design of an across-the-curve credit spread index (AXI). The index is a measure of the recent average cost of wholesale unsecured debt fund- ing for publicly listed U.S. bank holding companies and their commercial banking subsidiaries.
July 23, 2020 via Darrell Duffie via Hoover Daily Report
California’s been through its fair share of challenges in recent times, but nothing quite like the present pandemic crisis, the containment of which entered a critical stage in mid- to late-July as state and local officials turned to new restrictions to slow the spread of the COVID-19 virus across the Golden State.
July 23, 2020 via undefined via Eureka
Change is coming to California following the double whammy of a pandemic eruption and police reform protests. Responses to the extraordinary dual events will initially flow into California’s current cultural and political liberal tide—a move toward more government involvement in our lives and more spending.
July 23, 2020 via undefined via Eureka
All-star authoritarians are a ruble a dozen in Russia these days. Vladimir Putin leads the pack, of course, but there are plenty of local and regional tough guys running their neighborhoods and governments like mob bosses. Many of them are direct offshoots of Putin’s United Russia party, some are even worse.
July 23, 2020 via Miami Herald via Hoover Daily Report
I just finished watching an excellent 45-minute discussion led by my Hoover colleague Scott Atlas. The two participants he questioned were Hoover colleagues Russ Roberts and Ayaan Hirsi Ali.
July 23, 2020 via Econlib via Hoover Daily Report
The country now finds itself on a treacherous new stage. “America First” won’t cut it.
July 24, 2020 via The New York Times via Hoover Daily Report
Measures of economic uncertainty derived from statistical models are not well suited to quickly capture shifts associated with sudden, surprise developments like the COVID-19 crisis, thus necessitating forward-looking measures. This column considers several such forward-looking indicators of economic uncertainty for the US and UK before and during the COVID-19 pandemic.
July 24, 2020 via VoxEu.org (Centre for Economic Policy Research) via Hoover Daily Report
Hoover Institution fellow Scott Atlas discusses COVID-19 and what we now know about the virus. Based on what we know Dr. Atlas says schools need to open and the lock-downs need to end.
July 23, 2020 via Fox News via Hoover Daily Report
Hoover Institution fellow Victor Davis Hanson talks about his National Review article "Today’s Revolutionaries Aren’t Like Their ’60s Predecessors."
July 23, 2020 via The John Batchelor Show via Hoover Daily Report
Hoover Institution fellow Victor Davis Hanson talks about his National Review article "Trump’s Reactive Engagement."
July 23, 2020 via The John Batchelor Show via Hoover Daily Report
Hoover Institution fellow Condoleezza Rice interviews Fei-Fei Li, who co-leads Stanford’s Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, about the future of AI in an event co-sponsored by HAI and Hoover.
July 23, 2020 via Stanford HAI via Hoover Daily Report
Hoover Institution fellow Lanhee Chen discusses how to get our children safely back in school amidst the coronavirus.
July 24, 2020 via Townhall via Hoover Daily Report
Hoover Institution fellow John Yoo discusses the St. Louis couple's handguns and why they are even being prosecuted when they have a right to defend themselves under the Castle Doctrine.
July 24, 2020 via Fox News via Hoover Daily Report
Hoover Institution fellow Chester Finn discusses the flawed effort to revamp NAEP’s reading framework.
July 22, 2020 via Education Gadfly (Thomas B. Fordham Institute) via Hoover Daily Report
I first encountered Michael Shellenberger’s work in 2007 as a freshman in college. Back then, Shellenberger identified as a progressive and, together with my now-colleague Ted Nordhaus, had co-authored The Death of Environmentalism and co-founded the Breakthrough Institute, the ecomodernist think tank where I am now deputy director.
July 23, 2020 via National Review via Hoover Daily Report
As the US presidential election draws near, the conflict between America and China will escalate, impairing global trade which is "extremely important" for emerging markets like India and Brazil that are re-opening amid COVID-19 pandemic, former RBI governor Raghuram Rajan has said.
July 24, 2020 via The Times of India via Hoover Daily Report
Notable quotables from Victor Davis Hanson, Laura Hollis, Joe Biden, and more.
July 23, 2020 via Patriot Post via Hoover Daily Report
At the dawn of the 20th century, Nebraskans put up political mavericks like George Norris and William Jennings Bryan. Recently, Nebraskans sent Democrats Jim Exon, Bob Kerrey and Ben Nelson to the Governor’s Mansion and then the U.S. Senate. Like everything, political landscapes change. Today, Nebraska is predominately Republican. In the future, partisanship will shift from right to left, to moderates versus extremists.
July 23, 2020 via Omaha World-Herald (NE) via Hoover Daily Report
Experts disagreed on whether another round of stimulus should extend the highly controversial expanded jobless benefits, according to testimony provided before the U.S. House Committee on Financial Services on Thursday (July 23).
July 23, 2020 via PYMNTS via Hoover Daily Report
Coronavirus impact: The economist said that even if a COVID-19 vaccine is found as early as quarter four, economic damages would still occur.
July 23, 2020 via Business Today via Hoover Daily Report
Essays on Japanese migration to the United States from an international and historical perspective, considering impacts from social and political events on both sides of the Pacific
April 14, 2020 via undefined via Hoover Institution Press
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