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Act 1: If housing is too expensive, allow the supply curve to operate. In a surprising bit of excellent economics, Conor Dougherty writes "Build Build Build Build..."in Sunday's New York Times.
February 16, 2020 via Grumpy Economist via Hoover Daily Report
Don’t dismantle or radically reform the Electoral College.
February 17, 2020 via undefined via Defining Ideas
Why concerns about American wealth disparities are vastly overblown.
February 14, 2020 via undefined via The Grumpy Economist
How hard should it be to earn a high school diploma? The way high school diploma requirements are currently evolving across the United States virtually ensures that the nation will continue to backslide in social equity, economic well-being and international competitiveness.
February 17, 2020 via The Hill via Hoover Daily Report
In place of Angela Merkel as ‘the leader of the free world,’ we now live in a world ruled by male authoritarians.
February 17, 2020 via Boston Globe via Hoover Daily Report
Here is what Democratic candidate for president Michael Bloomberg said in 2016 at Oxford, in what he apparently offered up as an ad hoc history of labor, agriculture, and industry, leading up to his own sophisticated era, as reported in the New York Post: “I could teach anybody, even people in this room, no offense intended, to be a farmer,” Bloomberg told the audience at the Distinguished Speakers Series at the University of Oxford Saïd Business School.
February 18, 2020 via National Review via Hoover Daily Report
He has helped create the perception that the Justice Department is politicized.
February 17, 2020 via The Dispatch via Hoover Daily Report
The frightening visions of the new peak progressives will ensure the reelection of Donald Trump, as well as either the likely end of themselves—or else a collective dystopian nightmare.
February 16, 2020 via American Greatness via Hoover Daily Report
As competing powers gnaw at the last bleeding morsel of Syria—Idlib province on the Turkish border—what’s remarkable isn’t that these offspring of ancient empires are fighting, but that they’ve been fighting each other for millennia. No bursts of genocide or epochs of oppression could finish off the major players engaged: Arabs, Turks, Persians and, not least the last inheritors of Byzantium (represented by Vladimir Putin, self-proclaimed defender of Orthodox Christianity).
February 18, 2020 via undefined via Military History in the News
For all of the agonizing within Joe Biden’s inner circle over how to cure what ails the former vice president’s anemic presidential run – fourth place in Iowa, fifth place in New Hampshire, presumably another setback in Nevada this weekend – there’s an obvious fix: roll out Barack Obama’s endorsement post haste.
February 18, 2020 via Real Clear Politics via Hoover Daily Report
Have you noticed the Democrats’ new message? It’s “go big or go home.” Elizabeth Warren says we need “big structural change.” Bernie Sanders agrees, saying no “half measures.” Nearly all the candidates have jumped on the bandwagon, favoring Medicare for all, free college and a massive Green New Deal.
February 18, 2020 via Townhall Review via Hoover Daily Report
Dear Governor Newsom, Back in December, the high school football team in El Monte, a working-class immigrant suburb in the San Gabriel Valley, rode buses 13 hours and 750 miles to Crescent City, a poor town in California’s northwestern corner. Until the last minute, there had been doubt whether the team could make the trip.
February 10, 2020 via undefined via Eureka
Philosopher and author Peter Singer of Princeton University talks about his book, The Life You Can Save with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Singer argues that those of us in the developed world with a high standard of living can and should give/forgo some luxuries and donate instead to reduce poverty and suffering in poor countries.
February 16, 2020 via EconTalk via Hoover Daily Report
A distinguished research fellow at the Hoover Institution, Macke Raymond (pictured), joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss Raymond’s new paper that looks into rising high school graduation rates, and the gap between those high-school graduation requirements and the entry requirements for state universities.
February 18, 2020 via The Education Exchange via Hoover Daily Report
The alternative is to make honesty and humility prerequisites for membership in the community of economists. The easy part is to challenge the pretenders. The hard part is to say no when government officials look to economists for an answer to a normative question. Scientific authority never conveys moral authority.
February 17, 2020 via EconLog via Hoover Daily Report
If you wore [sic] born and grew up in the U.S., Canada, Australia or any other country considered “developed,” there are probably a lot of things you take for granted on a daily basis. Things like clean drinking water, big grocery stores, and even mirrors. But for people who grew up in developing countries and then left, many aspects of life in the developed world might come as a shock.
February 14, 2020 via EconLog via Hoover Daily Report
Movies from India, soap operas from Turkey, bands from Korea—their avid global fan base threatens America’s pop-culture supremacy.
February 12, 2020 via The Wall Street Journal via Hoover Daily Report
Hoover Institution fellow Niall Ferguson discusses the reasons why for the past few centuries, Western Civilization has dominated the world both culturally and economically.
February 17, 2020 via Prager U via Hoover Daily Report
Hoover Institution fellow Richard Epstein discusses his Defining Ideas article "Rent Control Laws Are Unconstitutional."
February 14, 2020 via The John Batchelor Show via Hoover Daily Report
Hoover Institution fellow Richard Epstein discusses his Defining Ideas article "Rent Control Laws Are Unconstitutional."
February 14, 2020 via The John Batchelor Show via Hoover Daily Report
Hoover Institution fellow Lanhee Chen discusses the week's political happenings, including the seemingly warm embrace of Michael Bloomberg by many in the Democratic establishment and Bill Barr's push-back against presidential tweets.
February 14, 2020 via Armstrong & Getty via Hoover Daily Report
Hoover Institution fellow John Yoo discusses what seems like a double standard concerning high level officials in law enforcement and President Trump's supporters.
February 15, 2020 via Fox News via Hoover Daily Report
Hoover Institution fellow John Yoo discusses the Barr/Trump/Stone controversy.
February 18, 2020 via Ricochet via Hoover Daily Report
When Francis Fukuyama wrote his essay (‘The End of History and the Last Man’) back in 1992, he argued that the idea of Western liberal democracy stood accepted and entrenched and while there might be ‘events’ here and there disproving the rule, they were not to be confused with ‘history’.
February 15, 2020 via The News via Hoover Daily Report
As I expected, many readers reacted heatedly to last week’s column on a proposal to reduce teacher retirement plans so that teachers who produced the best results could be paid more. Hanushek and company are even more hopeful than I am that the very difficult adjustments in the pension and compensation system could ever happen.
February 13, 2020 via The Washington Post via Hoover Daily Report
The strongest argument for socialism is that it sounds good. The strongest argument against socialism is that it doesn’t work.
February 16, 2020 via The Patriot Post via Hoover Daily Report
The organic industry is built upon a gigantic lie The industry doesn’t just advertise how good, pure, and natural it is, but also how bad, dirty and unnatural non-organic food is supposed to be by comparison.
February 17, 2020 via Canada Free Press via Hoover Daily Report
The 1980s novel and movie “The War of the Roses” recounted an ugly divorce between two apparently loving partners in an affluent household, a seemingly perfect marriage.
February 15, 2020 via The Washington Times via Hoover Daily Report
Guests at the Friends of the College of the Desert Library author luncheon were treated to a wonderful celebration of 50s: These were the 50 years of existence for the COD campus library, the 50 years of the Friends organization and the 50th anniversary of the Friends author luncheon.
February 14, 2020 via Desert Sun via Hoover Daily Report
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