American businessperson; Tully M. Friedman Professor of Economics and Wohlford Family Hoover Institution Senior Fellow at Stanford University; director at Oracle
With the election behind us, one PPP — Public Policy Polling — might fade into the background for a while while another — public-private partnerships — attracts new attention. Richard…
Michael Boskin, economics professor at Stanford University and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, analyzes what’s ahead if the current progressive mindset and its associated big-government policies continue to hold…
ObamaCare — the worst is yet to come. This, according to Stanford Economics Professor Michael Boskin. In the nearer term, a political iceberg looms next year. Insurance companies usually submit…
This forum has noted on more than one occasion an interesting book from University of Chicago economist Luigi Zingales titled A Capitalism for the People: Recapturing the Lost Genius of…
Another day older and deeper in debt? With apologies to Tennessee Ernie Ford, a slightly modified version of the chorus to his most famous song drifted through my mind as…
This week’s Carolina Journal Online Friday interview features a conversation with Stanford and Hoover Institution economist Michael Boskin about returning federal fiscal and monetary policy to a sustainable path. Kellie…
State lawmakers are trying to figure out how to plug a multibillion-dollar hole in the state budget. Joseph Coletti offers an update on that process ? including his own recommendations…
If you haven?t had a chance to watch Michael Boskin?s John W. Pope Lecture for N.C. State University, you might enjoy the following excerpt of a CarolinaJournal.tv interview with Boskin.…
The U.S. needs to shift its long-term policies away from increased government involvement in the economy, if we want to see a return to historic growth patterns. That was one…
Today’s WSJ features an excellent article by Stanford economics professor Michael Boskin on how politicians and other agenda pushers are so eager to use numbers to mislead people. Boskin gives…
Are a recipe for recession, argues Professor Michael Boskin here. High taxes and protectionism are a nasty mix, and Boskin hasn’t even considered many other aspects of Obama’s authoritarian, central…