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AEI’s Ryan Streeter hosts the Legatum Institute for the launch of their US Prosperity Index. Panelists will explore the findings of the state-by-state index and discuss the unique challenges posed to individual states.
Please join AEI for a presentation on the highlights of “A Roadmap to Reducing Child Poverty,” followed by a panel discussion with report authors Ron Haskins and Robert Moffitt on the realistic prospects for the report’s proposals to improve children’s lives.
Some argue that President Trump’s Federal Reserve Board nominations have been too political when the country needs technocrats at the Fed’s helm. Should a PhD be required for Fed governors, or is this just a disguised political argument to derail perfectly qualified candidates?
A buffer zone will not appease Turkey but rather encourage Erdogan to demand more. A wiser policy would be for Washington to embrace the Kurdish administration in northeastern Syria and endorse federalism in Syria’s future.
Goldman Sachs now believes even more strongly that “technological change is not fully reflected in the real output statistics.” From a bottom-up perspective, there’s all that missing growth from free digital goods. From a top-down perspective, Goldman economists note that the “growth of domestically generated profits and incomes (GDI) is outpacing that of GDP, a departure from earlier decades.”
Alas, the end of the Spitzenkandidaten system comes at too high a cost for Central Europe. For many in the West, Visegrád is no longer worth engaging with.
It is suspect to argue that the link between pay and productivity is broken. Suspect, but politically convenient for populists for whom telling a story of total economic failure is a key attack vector on “elites.”
A better option to reduce health care costs is one that regulates the market in a way that allows it to function and deliver better results.
As long as lawmakers respond to rising college costs with commensurate Pell Grant increases, the program is fated to provide aid to families with ever higher incomes.
Most “experts” dismissed candidate Trump’s strategy right up to election night. They got burned. On China, the president looks like he’s dismissing candidate Trump’s strategy, too. It may get unpleasantly hot in the White House in 2020.
Can the state order its culture to a higher good? Should it?
A new FCC effort to curb local government barriers to cable provision promises to further narrow the digital divide.
Both the left and the right generally regard the current higher education accountability regime as unsatisfactory in addressing concerns about student debt and the quality of higher education.
