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I’m here in California. I’ve been a lifelong resident of the state, fifth generation to live in the same house. I had a house in the Sierras, and it almost burned down three years ago during the Aspen Fire, and I’m speaking on the evening when you’ve all heard about the disastrous fire in Los Angeles.
January 9, 2025 via Daily Signal via Hoover Daily Report
What may and what should courts and legislatures do about private restrictions on speech? This has long been a critically significant and contested question, both before the Court and elsewhere.
December 20, 2024 via Harvard Law Review via Hoover Daily Report
Economists’ criticism of free markets is superficial, familiar—and wrong
January 9, 2025 via undefined via Defining Ideas
Instability is growing, Putin’s hybrid war in Europe is heating up and for fear of escalation we have encouraged global nuclear proliferation.
December 21, 2024 via The Guardian via Hoover Daily Report
As many of you know, since I left the government in 2014, I have been writing a monthly newsletter sharing my activities and publications, punctuated by an end-of-year “year in review” edition. With a few hours to spare till 2025, I would like to share some reflections and key memories from 2024.
December 31, 2024 via McFaul's World via Hoover Daily Report
Jon Hartley and David Beckworth discuss David’s career, monetary policy, the history of Nominal GDP targeting as an idea along with its benefits and challenges, the history of inflation targeting along with its recent evolution, the Fed’s recent framework reviews, as well as corridor (scarce reserves) versus floor (ample reserves) systems.
January 10, 2025 via undefined via Capitalism and Freedom in the 21st Century
The Hoover Institution invites you to attend a Book Talk: Building a Ruin: The Cold War Politics of Soviet Economic Reform with Yakov Feygin on Friday, January 10, 2025 from 4:00 – 7:00 PM PT.
January 10, 2025 via undefined via Hoover Daily Report
Consider these European and American binaries.
January 9, 2025 via VDH's Blade of Perseus via Hoover Daily Report
Economist Don Boudreaux has done a nice brief critique of a claim in the latest New Yorker that Milton Friedman and Friedrich Hayek were enthusiastic about apartheid in South Africa.
December 26, 2024 via I Blog to Differ via Hoover Daily Report
As we look back on the past year, we are damn proud of the work we have put out to the community. Of course, this wasn’t us, it was you, the reader, the writer and a handful of podcast guests.
January 8, 2025 via The Connecting File via Hoover Daily Report
Robert Barro, Hoover senior fellow (adjunct) and the Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics at Harvard University, discussed “Markups and Entry in a Circular Hotelling Model.”
January 8, 2025 via undefined via Hoover Daily Report
In 1964, President Lyndon Johnson retaliated against a tax imposed by France’s and West Germany’s governments on chicken exported from the United States.
January 9, 2025 via I Blog to Differ via Hoover Daily Report
Most American cities are zoned for single-family housing. The result is not enough customers within walking distance of a business, and not enough parking for the customers who drive.
December 23, 2024 via EconTalk via Hoover Daily Report
Hoover Institution fellow Niall Ferguson discusses the threats to western civilization.
December 11, 2024 via The American Council of Trustees and Alumni via Hoover Daily Report
Hoover Institution fellow Michael McFaul talks with Ray Suarez about the precarious future of Ukraine and whether President Trump will be able to negotiate a peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine.
January 9, 2025 via On Shifting Ground via Hoover Daily Report
Hoover Institution fellow Drew Endy discusses the concept of mirror life and why a group of researchers felt compelled to call for a halt to mirror life experiments.
January 8, 2025 via Science Friday via Hoover Daily Report
Hoover Institution fellow Victor Davis Hanson discusses talks about deserved and undeserved presidential medals, Biden’s historical legacy, Japanese steel companies in America, how the post-war mentality is out of date, the grooming scandal in England, the British influence on civic culture, Trump’s sentencing, and boutique environmentalism being full of paradoxes.
January 9, 2025 via The Victor Davis Hanson Show via Hoover Daily Report
Hoover Institution fellow Abbas Milani talks about Jimmy Carter's relationship with Iran.
January 10, 2025 via CNN via Hoover Daily Report
Hoover Institution fellow Ayaan Hirsi Ali joins Bari Weiss and Julie Bindel to explain how thousands of young girls, mostly children, were systematically groomed and raped by immigrant gangs across the UK over decades and were systemically ignored by almost everyone including the authorities.
January 9, 2025 via The Free Press via Hoover Daily Report
Hoover Institution fellow Victor Davis Hanson discusses the recent attack in New Orleans, the cyber truck explosion at Trump Tower in Las Vegas, KSM’s commuted death sentence, the WHO’s misguided criticism of Israel, protesting Kash Patel as FBI director, and how California’s homeless problem is still a problem for Gavin Newsom.
January 3, 2025 via The Victor Davis Hanson Show via Hoover Daily Report
Hoover Institution fellow Eric Hanushek calculates that if learning loss is not reversed, the average student’s lifetime earnings will be 6% lower, the equivalent of a 6% income tax surcharge on students’ working lives. And these losses will not be equally distributed as the most disadvantaged will suffer the worst consequences.
January 9, 2025 via Forbes via Hoover Daily Report
Hoover Institution fellow Amit Seru will present the key findings of the 27th Geneva Report on the World Economy, Much Money, Little Capital, and Few Reforms: The 2023 Banking Turmoil on Tuesday 28 January 2025.
January 8, 2025 via Center for Economic and Policy Research via Hoover Daily Report
Hoover Institution fellow Herbert Lin will be joining other speakers in revealing the 2025 Doomsday Clock time at the United States Institute of Peace in Washington, DC. The announcement will occur during a live, in-person news conference at 10:00 a.m. EST/1500 GMT.
January 9, 2025 via The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists via Hoover Daily Report
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