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October 8, 2024
Harris Housing Subsidies: A Recipe for Repeating Past Mistakes
…supply and demand subsidies has often led to unintended market distortions. Take, for example, the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968, which provided easy credit and generous subsidies. While…
October 3, 2024
Six Ideas to Fix Higher Education in 2025
…students in high-quality programs such as law or medicine could easily secure financing from the private market. But privatizing graduate student loans would end the federal subsidy that expensive graduate programs of…
October 3, 2024
The New “Old Girls Network” in the American Workplace
…like suicide, drug overdoses, and alcohol-related deaths, along with higher risks of workplace injuries. Of particular concern is the decline of marriage rates among these men, a key marker for…
October 3, 2024
Protectionism is Failing and Wrongheaded: An Evaluation of the Post-2017 Shift toward Trade Wars and Industrial Policy
…trade and of allowing markets to shape US industrial and employment composition. But the protectionism of the Trump and Biden administrations has not succeeded and likely will not succeed at…
October 2, 2024
AOC’s “Social Housing” Dead End
…is not to get government to replace the private housing market—which has enabled 65 percent of Americans to become homeowners—but for government to stand aside and let the private market work….
October 2, 2024
Higher Education: Making Education Beyond High School Work for All
…century labor market. For low-income students especially, college has been sold as a path to the middle class. As a result, the share of the population 25 and older with…
September 30, 2024
Our Academic Productivity After the Council of Economic Advisers
…White House Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) laid a substantial foundation for subsequent academic articles. We found a marked increase in our research productivity post-service, evidenced by publications in economics…
September 27, 2024
Justice at Any Cost?
…who identify as lgbtq+, and often youth with significant behavioral challenges as well.” Even if a few insurers return to the market, the foster-care system will be hopelessly distorted. The…
September 25, 2024
The Costs of Inaction: Economic Risks from Housing Unaffordability
…and a homeless crisis in many areas. Nationally, we have had a sellers’ housing market since 2012 and we remain in a strong sellers’ market today, especially at the low…
September 23, 2024
Toward a Potential Grand Bargain for the Nation
…of recommendations that we believe, on balance, would greatly strengthen the country and improve people’s lives. We believe in the importance of a market economy. Free markets have led to…