E392. Matters Of Policy & Politics: Healthcare Reform: In Need of...
Noticeably absent from both the floors of Congress and the presidential campaign trail: innovative ideas for lowering healthcare costs, easing the system’s regulatory burdens and offering patients...
View ArticleE393. Matters Of Policy & Politics: California Update: Riders on the Storm |...
California’s first tropical storm in over eight decades exposes both physical and emotional frailties; the Golden State’s governor continues his shadow presidential campaign; and not a living...
View ArticleE394. Matters Of Policy & Politics: Silicon Triangle: Semiconductors and...
Can America re-create a vibrant domestic semiconductor industry and, if so, what does that portend for an already strategically-vulnerable Taiwan? Glenn Tiffert, a Hoover Institution distinguished...
View ArticleE396. Matters of Policy & Politics: Road to the White House: Is This The...
Does a repeat of the last presidential election take America into uncharted waters (an octogenarian incumbent vs. a predecessor on trial), or is it proof of Yogi Berra’s “déjà vu all over again” – as...
View ArticleE397. Silicon Triangle: H.S. Philip Wong on the Implications of Technology...
To read “Implications of Technology Trends in the Semiconductor Industry” by H.S. Philip Wong and Jim Plummer, click the following link:...
View ArticleE398. Matters Of Policy & Politics: California Update: “Lee Was Wrong”, Jerry...
As Sacramento’s bill-signing season commences, Republican infighting is coming to Southern California, and does “Cincinnatus” need to return to office? Hoover senior fellow Lee Ohanian and...
View ArticleE399. Silicon Triangle: Matt Turpin On Mitigating China’s Nonmarket Behavior...
Matt Turpin discusses the intensifying competition between the US and China over dominance in the semiconductor industry. He discusses the strategies and policies the US is employing, such as export...
View ArticleE400. Silicon Triangle: Glenn Tiffert on Why China Struggles to Produce...
China’s challenges in developing its semiconductor industry despite massive government subsidies. Tiffert explains that factors like lack of talent, economic inefficiencies, corruption, and reliance on...
View ArticleE401. Matters Of Policy & Politics: Inflation, Disinflation, and Spending:...
The good news: inflation isn’t what it was a year ago. The bad news: Americans still pay more for shelter, food, and energy – and may hold lawmakers accountable for the high costs in the next election....
View ArticleE402. Matters Of Policy & Politics: Ukraine and Russia: Empires, Genocide and...
The Russia-Ukraine war is less about resources and more about empire, history, and two nations’ self-conceptions. Or so contends Norman Naimark, a Hoover Institution senior fellow and Stanford...
View ArticleE403. Silicon Triangle: Mary Kay Magistad on the Future of US-China...
Read “Scenarios for Future US-China Competition” here: https://www.hoover.org/sites/default/files/research/docs/SiliconTriangle_Chapter1_230828.pdf Mary Kay Magistad and Kharis Templeman discuss four...
View ArticleE404. Matters Of Policy & Politics: California Update: Bills That Lived or...
In Sacramento, the State Capitol’s annual bill-signing season ends, with California governor Gavin Newsom deciding the fate of hundreds of pieces of legislation. Hoover senior fellow Lee Ohanian and...
View ArticleE406. Matters Of Policy & Politics: Michael Boskin: Defense Budgeting for a...
Add to an already uncertain world: America’s uncertain ability to adequately budget for its national and global security needs – those needs more apparent given the US’s current involvement in two...
View ArticleE405. Matters Of Policy & Politics: Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative |...
Though arguably one of the most celebrated economists of the past century, there’s much to still be learned about the late Milton Friedman – his embrace of free markets and capitalism, his oft-times...
View ArticleE407. Matters Of Policy & Politics: California Update: SF Cleans Up, LA Melts...
A tale of not two but three California cities: what some have suggested was a hypocritical sanitizing of San Francisco ahead of this week’s APEC summit; the question of who and what caused a fire...
View ArticleE408. Matters Of Policy & Politics: California Update: 2023 Ends on a Sour...
What did we learn in 2023? California governor Gavin Newsom’s forays into national politics may have hurt his popularity back home; San Francisco’s pre-summit emergency clean-up proved that urban...
View ArticleE409. Matters of Policy & Politics: Iowa and Beyond: Three’s a (Republican)...
On the eve of Iowa’s presidential caucuses and the start of the 2024 primary season, what’s the inevitability of a Biden-Trump rematch? David Brady and Douglas Rivers, Hoover Institution senior fellows...
View ArticleE410. Matters of Policy & Politics: American Lion, Near East Hyenas: US...
A new year begins with a familiar story – Middle East turmoil – and two plots twists of late: US forces striking Yemen’s Houthi rebels while trying to safeguard Red Sea maritime traffic; and Iran...
View ArticleE411. Matters Of Policy & Politics: California Update: DiFi’s Void, Deficit...
Four US Senate candidates gathered for the first televised debate in advance of California’s March 5 primary; the state’s alarming budget deficit exposes fundamental problems with spending and taxes;...
View ArticleE412. Matters Of Policy & Politics: California Update – Mental Vs. Fiscal...
California’s Proposition 1, a $6.38 billion bond addressing mental health treatment across the Golden State, seems destined for voter approval. Is it sound policy – and a sound expense for a state...
View ArticleE413. Matters Of Policy & Politics: Rep. Mike Gallagher on Congress, China...
Unusual for a member of Congress, the 40-year-old Wisconsin Rep. Mike Gallagher is retiring later this year after only four terms in the House of Representatives. In a wide-ranging interview, Gallagher...
View ArticleE414. Matters of Policy & Politics: California Update – Proposition 1 Wasn’t...
California’s Super Tuesday primary yielded a few surprises, including a low turnout that nearly doomed governor Newsom’s pet ballot measure and a San Francisco electorate moving rightward on local...
View ArticleE416. Matters Of Policy & Politics: California Update: Southbound Economy,...
Recent economic news out of California isn’t all that “golden:” 400,000 jobs shed and the nation’s highest unemployment rate; and the Golden State soon to be demoted from fifth to six in terms of...
View ArticleE415. Matters of Policy & Politics: Revisiting Freedom’s Cause: David...
Evidence points to generations of Americans increasingly less informed as to their republic’s origins and system of checks and balances, so it is not surprising that more Americans are less engaged in...
View ArticleE417. Matters Of Policy & Politics: America’s Economic Riddle | Bill Whalen...
President Biden’s campaign swing through Pennsylvania this week is notable for two things – three days devoted to one “swing” state, and a nuanced message regarding the US economy that’s heavy on...
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