Tag: AEI

(USA) Addressing the long-run fiscal gap will require difficult choices (AEI)

Alan D. Viard On March 5, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) updated its long-run budget outlook, providing policymakers and the public with another reminder of the nation’s...

(Pandemic/Global Economy) The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on global industrial production (AEI)

Steven B. Kamin and John Kearns The COVID-19 pandemic has triggered the sharpest downturn in the world economy since the Great Depression, with global GDP projected...

(USA/North Korea/China) Biden’s great North Korea mistake: Pushing China to ‘solve the problem’ (The National Interest, AEI)

Michael Rubin Speaking at a press conference last week during his and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin’s visit to South Korea, Secretary of State Antony...

(USA) Could Biden’s coronavirus stimulus overheat the US economy? (AEI)

Desmond Lachman Today’s favorable employment and GDP numbers, pointing to a U.S. economy well on the mend, have to raise a couple of basic questions. https://www.aei.org/op-eds/could-bidens-coronavirus-stimulus-overheat-the-us-economy/

(USA) A Grand Strategy of Democratic Solidarity (AEI)

Hal Brands, Charles Edel On March 12, 1947, Harry Truman addressed a joint session of Congress with a very specific proposal: emergency aid for Greece and...

(Innovation/Technology) What the leaked FTC memos on Google really teach us (AEI)

Mark Jamison Politico did well for itself in producing five articles based on leaked internal Federal Trade Commission (FTC) documents related to the agency’s decision...

(USA) Public health experts are confusing Americans in the name of wokeness (AEI)

Marc A. Thiessen When I was a Pentagon speechwriter, I would sit down with four-star generals for a briefing on their plans to reorganize the...

(USA) Can’t we stop yammering about paradigm shifts? (AEI)

Michael R. Strain President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion economic relief and stimulus law has been hailed on the progressive left as the beacon of a new era...

(USA) The importance of Biden’s first budget (AEI)

James C. Capretta The Biden administration’s first budget will be clarifying when it is finally unveiled. Rarely has so much consequential tax and spending policy...

(USA) Fixing income-driven repayment for federal student loans (AEI)

Jason D. Delisle, Preston Cooper The income-driven repayment (IDR) plan allows all federal student loan borrowers to limit payments to a small share of their incomes...

(Europe/Venezuela) Europe’s last chance: How the EU can (and should) become the indispensable actor in Venezuela’s democratic restoration (AEI)

Ryan C. Berg, Jorge González-Gallarza The EU’s current policy approach toward Venezuela is insufficient to contribute meaningfully to a political transition in the country and protect...

(USA) Does Bernie Sanders think Elon Musk is a policy mistake, too? (AEI)

James Pethokoukis When presented with left-wing (typically, it seems, but maybe that’s changing) complaints about American billionaires — the US has the most in the...

(USA) Headed for $900 billion in unemployment benefits (AEI)

Matt Weidinger In the roughly 18 months between when the pandemic struck in March 2020 and when the latest round of expanded unemployment benefits included...

(USA) COVID-19 and the fast-moving workforce revolution (AEI

Brent Orrell Before the pandemic, a majority of Americans worked the standard “grind”: 9-to-5, five days a week, plus hours more of commuting. https://www.aei.org/workforce/covid-19-and-the-fast-moving-workforce-revolution/

(Defense) The 2020s tri-service modernization crunch (AEI)

Mackenzie Eaglen This decade, the US military is facing a massive spending spike to pay for modernization bills across the Army, Navy, Air Force, and...

(Korean Peninsula) ‘Denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula’: Pyongyang’s trick language for keeping its nukes (AEI)

Nicholas Eberstadt Sometimes words matter greatly in foreign affairs. A key instance of the crucial importance of seemingly innocuous semantic distinctions is on display right...