Daily Policy Digest
Economic Issues
| Obama's Death by Jobs The economic picture given to us by key administration and congressional personnel and leaders is so different from reality that it looks as if it were from a parallel universe... |
| Parched in the West but Shipping Water to China, Bale by Bale Alfalfa is a water-guzzling crop, and the amount that was exported to China in 2012 is enough to supply the annual consumption of around 500,000 American families... |
| How to Think About QE3 Quantitative easing is a relatively new experiment the Federal Reserve is embarking on; thus, examination must be drawn from the intervention in central banks in the markets for foreign currency... |
| Fannie and Freddie's Huge Profits Raise Questions for Future of Mortgage Finance Between 2008 and 2011, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac recorded $91 billion in credit losses on mortgages; but in 2012, this figure fell to just $14 billion... |
| How to Stop the Global Subsidies Race Instead of pursuing policies that inhibit free trade, global antisubsidy rules and national countervailing duty laws need to be reformed... |
| The JOBS Act: Reducing the Regulatory Burden on Small Businesses The JOBS Act should improve small business access to start-up capital by reducing the burden of some federal regulations, says Brian Bodine, a graduate student fellow with the National Center for Policy Analysis... |
| Asset Bubbles and Supply Failures Housing prices have a difficult time falling to new equilibrium prices primarily because of high loan-to-value mortgages and costly foreclosures... |
| The Dodd-Frank Act versus the Rule of Law The Dodd-Frank Act increases the instability of financial institutions, rather than reducing it, says Roger Koppl, a senior fellow with the National Center for Policy Analysis... |
| The Impact of Federal Regulations on U.S. Manufacturing The U.S. manufacturing sector has slowly decreased its share of the gross domestic product from 27 percent in 1957 to 12.2 percent in 2011... |
| The Food Stamp Recovery In 2012, 47 million people receive Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits -- nearly 15 percent of the population, or one in seven Americans... |
