Tag: AEI

(Deterrence) Producing fear in the enemy’s mind: How to adapt Cold War deterrence for gray-zone aggression (AEI)

Elisabeth Braw Deterrence is based on psychology rather than specific tools and seeks to change adversaries’ cost-benefit calculations to convince them not to engage in...

(USA) Why nearly everyone hates cost sharing (even though there’s less in the health care forest than in the employer-plan trees) (AEI)

Overall out-of-pocket spending (OOPS) as a share of total national health care expenditures in the United States has consistently declined over the past six...

(USA) The Paycheck Protection Program and unemployment benefit claims (AEI)

Michael R. Strain I recently highlighted two new papers on the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP). The evidence on PPP’s effects is continuing to grow, and I want...

(USA) That Senate parliamentarian did Democrats a favor. Now it’s time for centrists to step up and do the same (AEI)

James Pethokoukis More trouble ahead for President Biden’s $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief/stimulus bill? Last week, the Senate parliamentarian told lawmakers that the plan’s proposed increase in the...

(USA) A lot of Trump supporters want someone else to carry Trumpism’s banner into 2024 (AEI)

Marc A. Thiessen Donald Trump’s loyal base remains intensely loyal. A straw poll of participants in the 2021 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) found 97 percent approve...

(USA) The coming ACA expansion will be permanent (AEI)

James C. Capretta The COVID-19 response bill moving briskly through Congress contains the largest expansion of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) since the law was enacted...

(USA) 8,000 districts point to 5 trends in instructional offerings (AEI)

Nat Malkus It’s been almost one year since schools first shuttered, and the debate on how they should respond to the ongoing pandemic is as...

(USA) Wealth taxes come with a wealth of worrisome potential trade-offs (AEI)

James Pethokoukis President Biden’s campaign tax plan was full of tax increases, some $3 trillion worth. But a wealth tax wasn’t one of them. https://www.aei.org/economics/wealth-taxes-come-with-a-wealth-of-worrisome-potential-trade-offs/  

(USA) Pick your Child Tax Credit (AEI)

Alex Brill, Kyle Pomerleau, Grant M. Seiter The Child Tax Credit (CTC) is all the rage these days. Democrats and Republicans both are advancing proposals to increase...

(USA) Democrats’ Stealth Plan to Enact Universal Basic Income (AEI)

Robert Doar, Matt Weidinger The Covid stimulus would give checks to parents, with no strings attached. UBI for everyone is next. https://www.aei.org/op-eds/democrats-stealth-plan-to-enact-universal-basic-income/

(USA) Trump’s protectionist failure (AEI)

Phil Gramm, Pat Toomey Tax cuts and deregulation spurred the boom. Tariffs delivered neither economic growth nor key states. https://www.aei.org/op-eds/trumps-protectionist-failure/

(USA/Latin America) Do US institutions still inspire? The case of Latin America (AEI)

Ryan C. Berg, Haroldo Montealegre The tragic events that unfolded in January at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., has given rise to elegies of American...

(China) Rule of law: Beijing style (AEI)

Gary J. Schmitt On Sunday, Hong Kong authorities charged 47 of its citizens for violating the National Security Law — a Beijing measure unilaterally imposed...

(USA) Who will lead the world in artificial intelligence? (AEI)

Elaine McCusker, Emily Coletta A new report emphasizes why it is urgent that the Department of Defense and Congress work together to modernize the way defense programs...

(USA) Biden’s challenge (AEI)

Jay Cost According to the RealClearPolitics average of the national polls, President Joe Biden’s approval rating stands at 55%, a fine position overall but not...

(Vaccine Development/Digital Tools) Digital tools helped enable COVID-19 vaccine trials. What are the lessons learned? (AEI)

David Shaywitz Digital tools played a critical role in accelerating the development and evaluation of COVID-19 vaccines, according to leaders at the companies driving this...