Regulatory Improvement Commission: A Politically-Viable Approach to U.S. Regulatory Reform

Regulatory Improvement Commission: A Politically-Viable Approach to U.S. Regulatory Reform

The natural accumulation of federal regulations over time imposes an unintended but significant cost to businesses and to economic growth. However, no effective process currently... More »

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Privatizing Law and Order

Privatizing Law and Order

The gun lobby is shooting sensible gun legislation full of holes. Already, the Senate has dropped a ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, and... More »

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Natural Gas Vehicles: Driving America to a More Prosperous, Secure and Sustainable Future

Natural Gas Vehicles: Driving America to a More Prosperous, Secure and Sustainable Future

There has been a sea change in public attitudes toward natural gas. Not so long ago natural gas was widely viewed as a “bridge fuel”... More »

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Forging Consensus on Immigration

Forging Consensus on Immigration

The Bipartisan Framework for Comprehensive Immigration Reform released earlier this year by four Democratic and four Republican senators has been the basis of virtually all... More »

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05/17/2013 By Ed Kilgore
Hearings Fish for IRS Misdeeds, Republicans Mull Scandal Strategy, and the House Gang Agrees to Disagree

After a wild week, political news settles down into a dull roar, amidst shifting assessments of Scandalmania “behind the headlines.” 1. The first day of…

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05/17/2013 By Diana G Carew
A Government Takeover of Student Debt Won’t Solve the Problem

If you believe the recent blitz of student debt coverage, private student lenders are to blame for the economic woes of recent college graduates. Lending…

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05/06/2013 By Jason Gold
Rating the Credit Raters

Credit rating agencies (CRAs) are supposed to be hard-eyed accountants whose job is to assess credit risk. But they also got swept up in the…

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05/03/2013 Governing
How the FCC Could Shape a Mobile Data-Driven Economy

Tom Wheeler, President Obama’s nominee to be the next chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), has a critical choice to make if he is confirmed by…

05/02/2013 US News & World Report
Why You Should Ignore the Housing Experts

Housing is center stage in the news and around the water cooler again, with newspaper and magazine stories dissecting minute fluctuations in home prices and...

04/24/2013 US News & World Report
Why the Federal Housing Administration Is Better Off Than You Think

Writing for US News & World Report, Jason Gold notes that the Federal Housing Administration is outperforming most analysts expectations. Normally a small part of...

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04/17/2013
Obama Took His Time In Calling Boston Marathon Attack ‘Terrorism’

McClatchy’s Anita Kumar quotes PPI President Will Marshall on the President Obama’s response to the Boston marathon attack: In his first term, the president was criticized…

04/16/2013 McClatchy Newspapers
America Turns Left On Social Issues, But Not On Government

In his article for McClatchy Newspapers on “Social Issues and Public Opinion”, David Lightman quotes PPI President Will Marshall: Some saw Barack Obama as a…

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05/14/2013 Policy Brief By Michael Mandel
The Rebalancing Of The California Economy: How Internet/Tech Jobs Are Spreading Across The State

Over the last year, California has added jobs faster than the country as a whole, in large part because of the booming Internet/tech sector. Indeed,…

05/09/2013 Policy Memo By Michael Mandel and Diana G Carew
Regulatory Improvement Commission: A Politically-Viable Approach to U.S. Regulatory Reform

The natural accumulation of federal regulations over time imposes an unintended but significant cost to businesses and to economic growth. However, no effective process currently…

04/12/2013 Policy Memo By Will Marshall
The New Politics of Production

It’s easy enough to get progressives to agree that austerity is not the answer to the malaise that pervades the transatlantic world. What’s hard is…

04/09/2013 Policy Memo By Bruce G. Kauffmann
Natural Gas Vehicles: Driving America to a More Prosperous, Secure and Sustainable Future

There has been a sea change in public attitudes toward natural gas. Not so long ago natural gas was widely viewed as a “bridge fuel”…

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