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    Flipping The House: What '94, '06, '10 Turnout Tells Us
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    Flipping The House: What '94, '06, '10 Turnout Tells Us

    Much of the press coverage of the 2018 House elections has focused on identifying the most competitive House races and attempting to predict their results. Some academic models have also adopted this tactic, basing their conclusions on an analysis of highly contested districts. Still others run regressions using a combination of presidential approval ratings, generic congressional ballot surveys, and other miscellaneous factors such as disposable income.

    November 6, 2018 by David Brady, Brett Parker via Real Clear Politics via Hoover Daily Report
    The Shaky Case For Birthright Citizenship
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    The Shaky Case For Birthright Citizenship

    The Fourteenth Amendment is more complicated than it appears.

    November 5, 2018 by Richard A. Epstein via undefined via Defining Ideas
    The Safe Bet For This Midterm Is On The Democrats
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    The Safe Bet For This Midterm Is On The Democrats

    Unlike presidential elections, it is usually quite easy to predict who will win the midterms. Despite the role of local issues and candidates, they are in large measure referendums on the president’s job performance and, as such, perfect opportunities for Americans to display their characteristic fickleness. Having elected someone president, Americans are collectively ready to punch him on the nose after just 24 months. 

    November 5, 2018 by Sir Niall Ferguson via The Boston Globe via Hoover Daily Report
    The Issues That Tore Us Apart
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    The Issues That Tore Us Apart

    Slavery was the issue that blew up America in 1861 and led to the Civil War. But for the 85 years between the nation’s founding and that war, it had seemed that somehow America could eventually phase out the horrific institution and do so largely peacefully.

    November 6, 2018 by Victor Davis Hanson via National Review via Hoover Daily Report
    Area 45: What Challenges Face California’s New Governor With Lee Ohanian
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    Area 45: What Challenges Face California’s New Governor With Lee Ohanian

    Lee Ohanian on Hoover’s new online journal and what challenges confront the Golden State’s next governor.

    November 5, 2018 interview with Lee Ohanian via undefined via Matters of Policy & Politics
    Analysis and Commentary
    Economic Freedom, Part 3
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    Economic Freedom, Part 3

    The attempt to develop a rigorous, quantitative measure of economic freedom may strike some as a presumptuous undertaking. The effort requires agreement on the conceptual dimensions of economic freedom, the indicators or data that fit or reflect each of the several dimensions of economic freedom, and the generation of a number (or numbers) that sums up all of the different dimensions, thereby permitting comparative ratings on the degree of economic freedom that exists both in the aggregate for each of the different dimensions of economic life in every country in the world at any point in time.

    November 6, 2018 by Alvin Rabushka via Thoughtful Ideas via Hoover Daily Report
    Electricity Policy Reform: Economic Policy Challenges Facing California’s Next Governor
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    Electricity Policy Reform: Economic Policy Challenges Facing California’s Next Governor

    Californians like to think of themselves as environmentally conscious and forward-thinking. The state’s energy and environmental policies reflect these sentiments. With the passage of SB 100, California has one of the nation’s most ambitious renewable energy goals for its electricity supply industry. The California Solar Initiative rebate program has led to more rooftop solar capacity in the state than the total rooftop solar capacity installed in the next eight highest-capacity states.

    October 28, 2018 by Frank A. Wolak via Hoover Institution via Analysis
    Murphy On Nordhaus Versus The UN
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    Murphy On Nordhaus Versus The UN

    In light of Nordhaus’s calculations shown above, the apparently urgent need for “climate action” is not so urgent. It now looks more analogous to economists discovering the theoretical possibility of an “optimal tariff” but still understanding that free trade is the safest rule of thumb.

    November 5, 2018 by David R. Henderson via EconLog via Hoover Daily Report
    Interviews
    Victor Davis Hanson - What Are The Contradictions Of The Caravan?
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    Victor Davis Hanson - What Are The Contradictions Of The Caravan?

    Hoover Institution fellow Victor Davis Hanson discusses his American Greatness article "When Laws Are Not Enforced, Anarchy Follows."

    November 2, 2018 interview with Victor Davis Hanson via The Lars Larson Show via Hoover Daily Report
    Richard Epstein On The John Batchelor Show
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    Richard Epstein On The John Batchelor Show

    Hoover Institution fellow Richard Epstein discusses the US pulling out of the Paris Agreement and climate change.

    November 5, 2018 interview with Richard A. Epstein via The John Batchelor Show via Hoover Daily Report
    RBI Needs To Play Like Rahul Dravid: Raghuram Rajan Opens Up On Public Spat, Section 7 And The NBFC Crisis
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    RBI Needs To Play Like Rahul Dravid: Raghuram Rajan Opens Up On Public Spat, Section 7 And The NBFC Crisis

    Hoover Institution fellow Raghuram Rajan discusses the role of the central bank.

    November 6, 2018 interview with Raghuram Rajan via The Economic Times via Hoover Daily Report
    Lanhee Chen: What To Make Of The Midterm Polling
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    Lanhee Chen: What To Make Of The Midterm Polling

    Hoover Institution fellow Lanhee Chen discusses the importance of turnout in the late stages of the midterm elections.

    November 4, 2018 interview with Lanhee J. Chen via Fox News via Hoover Daily Report
    In the News
    US Civil War ‘Coming’: Russia Seizes On Talk Of US Split — But Did It Help Generate That In The First Place?
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    US Civil War ‘Coming’: Russia Seizes On Talk Of US Split — But Did It Help Generate That In The First Place?

    Russia is convinced the next US Presidential election will spark a new civil war. And they should know. Moscow has been secretly manipulating US political opinions now for years.

    November 4, 2018 quoting Sir Niall Ferguson via The Mercury via Hoover Daily Report
    The Hottest Midterm Race Is Milton Friedman Versus Marc Benioff
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    The Hottest Midterm Race Is Milton Friedman Versus Marc Benioff

    Of all the high-profile political contests on the ballot this week—Ted Cruz versus Beto O'Rourke in Texas, Stacey Abrams versus Brian Kemp in Georgia, Dean Heller versus Jacky Rosen in Nevada—the one that may be the most consequential, long-term, is Marc Benioff versus Milton Friedman.

    November 5, 2018 quoting Milton Friedman via Reason via Hoover Daily Report
    Rent Control: An Old, Bad Idea That Won't Go Away
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    Rent Control: An Old, Bad Idea That Won't Go Away

    The Bradley Cooper-Lady Gaga remake of A Star Is Born isn't the only thing from the 1970s making a comeback this year. After most states passed laws blocking rent control in the 1980s and '90s, there's now a push to reintroduce it from coast to coast.

    November 5, 2018 quoting Thomas Sowell via Governing via Hoover Daily Report
    Putin’s Information Wars
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    Putin’s Information Wars

    The information wars of Vladimir Putin are mainly a United States problem, Stephen Kotkin, a professor of history and international affairs at Princeton University said on November 1 at the Cato Institute.

    November 5, 2018 quoting Stephen Kotkin via Accuracy in Academia via Hoover Daily Report
    Midterm Elections Vulnerable To Cyberattacks, Experts Fear
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    Midterm Elections Vulnerable To Cyberattacks, Experts Fear

    U.S. cybersecurity experts are bracing for possible attempts to attack the midterm election by Russia or another adversary hoping to engineer a disruption that casts doubt on the integrity of the vote. Interference may range from altering websites used by state and local election authorities, to spreading propaganda through social media, to hacking at polling places intended to complicate the casting of ballots.

    November 5, 2018 quoting Herbert Lin via The Eagle via Hoover Daily Report
    If The Chinese Look To The West For A Democratic Model, What Are We Showing Them?
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    If The Chinese Look To The West For A Democratic Model, What Are We Showing Them?

    China may be close to achieving something “never before tried at any time in history,” the scholar Nicholas Eberstadt said last week. That new creation: “market totalitarianism.” No country has ever achieved vibrant, entrepreneurial prosperity while denying its people political freedom. And there’s good reason for that, or so we’ve always thought.

    November 4, 2018 mentioning George P. Shultz, Hoover Institution, Hoover Institution Editor, Hoover Institution Library & Archives via The Washington Post via Hoover Daily Report
  1. RBI Needs To Play Like Rahul Dravid: Raghuram Rajan Opens Up On Public Spat, Section 7 And The NBFC Crisis
  2. Economic Freedom, Part 3
  3. Flipping The House: What '94, '06, '10 Turnout Tells Us
  4. The Issues That Tore Us Apart
  5. Richard Epstein On The John Batchelor Show
  6. The Shaky Case For Birthright Citizenship
  7. Area 45: What Challenges Face California’s New Governor With Lee Ohanian
  8. Putin’s Information Wars
  9. Rent Control: An Old, Bad Idea That Won't Go Away
  10. The Hottest Midterm Race Is Milton Friedman Versus Marc Benioff
  11. Midterm Elections Vulnerable To Cyberattacks, Experts Fear
  12. The Safe Bet For This Midterm Is On The Democrats
  13. Murphy On Nordhaus Versus The UN
  14. US Civil War ‘Coming’: Russia Seizes On Talk Of US Split — But Did It Help Generate That In The First Place?
  15. Lanhee Chen: What To Make Of The Midterm Polling
  16. If The Chinese Look To The West For A Democratic Model, What Are We Showing Them?
  17. Victor Davis Hanson - What Are The Contradictions Of The Caravan?
  18. Electricity Policy Reform: Economic Policy Challenges Facing California’s Next Governor
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