Daily Policy Digest
| Using the Free Market to Expand Access to Electricity Worldwide electricity demand is projected to grow by 2.2 annually, driven by developing countries and electric car expansion... |
| Balancing State Balance Sheets States, acting as a financial investor, should hold and manage a diversified portfolio of assets that increase the resilience and flexibility of that state to adjust to periodic systemic financial risk... |
| Peak Oil Production Still Ahead Global crude oil extraction between 2001 and 2011 rose by 10.8 percent to just 5 million metric tons shy of the 4 billion metric mark... |
| Why Men Are More Likely to Drop Out of College Men without college degrees face better job prospects than equivalently educated women, at least in the short term... |
| U.S. Roads in Good Shape Between 1989 and 2008, all states lowered their highway fatality rates and 40 states reduced their percentages of deficient bridges... |
| Foreign Discount Generic Drugs Lacking in Quality and Oversight Fifty-four percent of Americans distrust Indian drugs and 70 percent distrust Chinese drugs... |
| Dividing Fracking Regulation Efficiently There is no evidence that hydraulic fracturing operations cause serious or widespread contamination of drinking water within or across political boundaries... |
| The Future of Free Market Health Care There is a way to use health insurance exchanges to both reform our health care entitlements and reduce premiums for those with private insurance... |
| Digital Shift Swells Profits for Electronic Medical Record Industry Allscripts Healthcare Solutions, a firm that lobbied heavily for government support of digital medical records, witnessed its annual sales more than double from $548 million in 2009 to $1.44 billion in 2012... |
| Capping Tax Expenditures a Substitute for Raising Taxes By limiting tax savings from all deductions and the two major tax exclusions to 2 percent of an individual's adjusted gross income, the deficit could be reduced by $220 billion in 2013... |
