Volatility

An essay at The Hill on what to make of market volatility: What’s causing the big drop in the stock market, and the bout of enormous vola...

Sumner on teaching economics

Scott Sumner has a terrific post on teaching economics . (HT Marginal Revolution) The core ideas of economics are extremely counterintuitiv...

Homeless

Christopher Rufo at the New York Post has an interesting article on homeless problems in Seattle. The analysis rings true of many other are...

Flood insurance will be tough to find during federal government shutdown

During the federal government shutdown that started Dec. 21, the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) will not sell new flood insurance p...

Imagine what we could cure -- full oped

A  WSJ oped  with J J Plecs, formerly of  Roam Analytics , which does a lot of health related data work. This is the full oped now that 30 d...

Ideas for Increasing Your Case Acceptance Numbers

Thinking about buying a condo? Here’s what you should know about insuring it

We talk to consumers a lot about homeowner and renter insurance, but condos are a type of housing that have unique insurance considerations...

Series on recession and financial crisis

Over the last few weeks we have had a series of discussions at Hoover on the 10th anniversary of the financial crisis and recession. This...

Understanding the Unfilled Hours on your Practice Advisor Report

Avoid being the victim of package theft

December is the season for shopping for gifts, which means it’s also prime Grinch season for car break-ins and thefts. Theft from a house ...

Canadian Debt

Corey Garriott, Sophie Lefebvre, Guillaume Nolin, Francisco Rivadeneyra and Adrian Walton at the Bank of Canada have issued a thoughtful and...

Brexit and democracy

Tyler Cowen has a very interesting Bloomberg column on Brexit . Essentially, he views the UK getting this right -- which I agree it does not...

Canadian non-QE

Friday at Hoover we will have a series of events reexamining the lessons of the financial crisis and recession. (There is a public event her...

Taylor on China and Trade and Ideas

Tim Taylor, also reviewing Summers on China , makes a few excellent points. Growth comes from within. Trade is not conquest. The formula ...

Sumner on China; Trade in ideas

Scott Summer, also reviewing Summers on China , makes a few excellent points. Growth comes from within. Trade is not conquest. The formul...

A First-of-the-Year Task To Put On Your Schedule

Summers on China

(Continues from my last post on China trade ) Larry Summers has a good  Financial Times oped  on the same subject, titled "Washington...

Flowers not tariffs

I wrote a little commentary on trade for The Hill, which they titled " The US should give China Flowers not Tariffs ." Chocolates ...

Financing innovation

I went to the Financing of Innovation summit at Stanford GSB last Thursday. (Sorry, I can't seem to find a full program online.) Here i...

Opinions change

Source:David Brady and Mo Fiorina My Hoover colleagues David Brady and Mo Fiorina gave a recent talk updating some of their work o...

Tips to avoid Medicare card scams

Medicare has been mailing new Medicare ID cards to Washington state beneficiaries since September and scammers are taking advantage of thi...

End of Year Tasks: Part 3

Financial reform video

Capital, more capital. I did a video interview for the Chicago Booth Review , summarizing a few talks I'm giving this fall. At some po...

ASU forecast luncheon

On Wed Nov 28 I will be giving a talk at the ASU Forecast Luncheon in Phoenix. Blog readers will likely be bored, as I'm going to unapo...

Imagine what we could cure

A WSJ oped with J J Plecs, formerly of Roam Analytics , which does a lot of health related data work. The discovery that cigarettes cause ...

End-of-Year Tasks: Part Two

Regulatory cost disease

A post on Marginal Revolution is so good, I have to quote in its entirety before commenting. From my time in both the military and healthc...