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In his recent Title II announcement, President Obama failed to hold accountable all players in the Internet ecosystem. Here, Roslyn Layton explains the implications of such a discrepancy.
Dilma Rousseff was reelected as president of Brazil on October 25th. Her second term in office will add four years to the status quo of the Workers’ Party, which has been in charge of the country since the election of President Luiz Inácio “Lula” da Silva in 2003.
In August 2015, Rick Hess of AEI’s Education Policy Studies team will hold the second “Ed Policy Academy” for graduate students in the social sciences, public policy, business, and law. This summer institute gives promising graduate students an opportunity to explore the contours of current education debates with an intimate group of leading scholars.
The Ivanpah solar plant has produced about one-quarter the energy promised. Now the owners of the project have applied for a half-billion-dollar grant to pay off a large portion of its original federally guaranteed loan.
Is Medicare adequately meeting the needs of seniors, or are there ways that its core attributes could be improved? The MedCHAT project sponsored by Center for Healthcare Decisions provides compelling evidence that average citizens would re-design Medicare if they could.
Piketty’s Capital creates an alternative universe where the rich consist of rentiers born with a silver spoon in their mouths and big-business CEOs who serve themselves raises with the same. This image of the rich is convenient for the Left, but inaccurate. Leaving out entrepreneurs leads Piketty astray in several places.
While adding tens of thousands of pre-K slots in a matter of months makes for good headlines, unfortunately for New York City it does not make for good pre-K.
Too often, deflation is treated as if it were always and everywhere a good thing. Bad deflation, however, results when demand runs chronically below the economy’s capacity to supply goods and services, leaving an output gap. That prompts firms to cut prices and wages; that weakens demand further.
