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...This is known as “Stein’s law”, after the late Herbert Stein, former chair of Richard Nixon’s Council of Economic Advisers....
...Trump himself has said “I don’t want to be Herbert Hoover,” meaning he doesn’t want to preside over a major downturn, which even he must know wouldn’t be pushed away with the usual Republican prescription...
...While Herbert Hoover, US president at the time, remained captured by anti-regulatory forces, FDR made financial reform and spreading the benefits of capitalism more widely a centrepiece of his 1932 campaign...
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...His list includes Jordan, the eugenicist Stanford president; Herbert Hoover, the Republican president and founder of Stanford’s Hoover Institution, the think-tank that helped to shape Ronald Reagan; and...
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...US presidents from Herbert Hoover to Barack Obama have sojourned at New York’s opulent Waldorf Astoria....
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...Economists, notably John Cochrane of the Hoover Institution, have formalised the link between fiscal policy and inflation....
...George W Bush said he could “get a sense of his soul” and found Putin “straightforward and trustworthy”....
...If the Democrats had won the 1928 presidential election . . . well, then Herbert Hoover would’ve come in as president in 1933 and would’ve had absolutely no idea what to do....
...The fact that a book on neoliberalism starts with Herbert Hoover, the president whose failure paved the way for Roosevelt’s success, rather than Friedrich Hayek, will throw some readers (like me)....
...He even goes so far as to cite Andrew Mellon, the treasury secretary of Herbert Hoover, who notoriously advised his boss to “liquidate labour, liquidate stocks, liquidate the farmers, liquidate real estate...
...But also key was US president Herbert Hoover’s greatest legacy, the Hoover Dam, built between 1931 and 1936 situated less than hour away by car from Las Vegas....
...In fact, he’s the first American president since Herbert Hoover to lose the White House, the House and the Senate in just four years....
...Franklin Delano Roosevelt is the most famous “Builder Back Better”, but Herbert Hoover had his public works projects....
...There are US presidents, such as Cleveland, Truman, both Roosevelts and Hoover, the author of a book on angling who wrote: “Fishing reduces the ego in presidents and former presidents, for at fishing most...
...In 2000 Bush became the first non-incumbent Republican since Herbert Hoover to win West Virginia. In 2012, Obama lost every single county in the state to Mitt Romney....
...Martin Van Buren, Millard Fillmore, Ulysses S Grant, Grover Cleveland, Herbert Hoover and Roosevelt all tried to recapture the White House after leaving office. Only one — Cleveland — succeeded....
...In April 1951, in what FBI Director J Edgar Hoover called “the trial of the century”, Ethel Rosenberg and her husband Julius were found guilty of conspiracy to commit espionage and sentenced to death by...
...The Buy American Act, first introduced by Herbert Hoover in 1933, requires US government agencies to buy US-made goods from US companies and manufacturers....
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