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When can we rely on the predictions and projections of experts, and when are policymakers simply forced to deal with uncertainty? In the latter event, how should uncertainty be handled? I recently discussed these questions, ....
Many Americans believe that the middle class has been left behind — that wage growth has slowed down, life expectancies have stagnated, and civil society has deteriorated. To what extent are these fair diagnoses? And ....
So much of our policy debates rely on predictions, projections, and probabilities. What will the results of the upcoming election be? How will this policy affect economic growth? How big of a threat is climate ....
This note summarizes my presentation for the AEI Event, “The Debt Challenge of Emerging Market Economies”, October 28, 2020.[1] How likely are emerging market (EM) economies to default? Even before the coronavirus pandemic, many of ....
In my recent podcast chat with Kevin Davies, executive editor of The CRISPR Journal and author of the recently released Editing Humanity: The CRISPR Revolution and the New Era of Genome Editing, it wasn’t until ....
My AEI colleagues Derek Scissors, Michael Mazza, and I have already made the economic and strategic case for the US to negotiate a free trade agreement with Taiwan. With Joe Biden’s victory in the US ....
A modest prediction: In post-pandemic America, populists and progressives will point to Operation Warp Speed’s role in COVID-19 vaccine development as a powerful example of effective industrial policy. And almost certainly to argue for more ....
America has long been seen as a nation of the middle class, but increasingly Americans believe that the middle class has been left behind. The pandemic has amplified this narrative, with many observers concerned that ....
By Stan Veuger and Jeffrey Clemens Friday’s data on the October employment situation provides a sobering reminder of the ongoing need for sound economic policy in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Labor market indicators remain ....
Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, the long-term economic outlook for the American economy was unimpressive. Maybe not by, say, European standards, but certainly by historical American standards. The CBO’s pre-pandemic forecast from June 2019 saw ....