Daily Policy Digest

Economic Issues

Study: Money Can Buy Happiness

Data show that the relationship between wellbeing and income rises linearly as income rises...

Demographic Decline Has Serious Implications

In the developed world, and even in the developing world, fertility is below the 2.1 total fertility rate needed for populations to remain stable, meaning that populations are declining...

Myths vs. Facts: California's Claims about Texas' Economy

Between 2006 and 2012, California had a net loss of 359,000 jobs while Texas had a net gain of more than 1 million jobs...

The Federal Financial Triangle

The Federal Reserve, by buying long-term mortgage-backed securities and long-term Treasury debt, is creating interest rate risk on its own balance sheet...

Lessons from the Cyprus Bailout

Cyprus should never have proposed a tax on small insured bank deposits, but should have used its financial crisis as an excuse to leave the euro...

Federal Reserve's Huge Balance Sheet Poses Risk

If it follows its current path, the Federal Reserve's balance sheet will not return to its historical norm of around 6 percent of gross domestic product until 2022...

Are Corporate Bonds Worth a Look?

The value of U.S. corporate bonds issued was $1.36 trillion in 2012, says Pamela Villarreal, a senior fellow at the National Center for Policy Analysis...

Student Borrowers Delay Major Purchases as Debt Mounts

In 2012, 22 percent of 30 year olds with a history of student debt had or previously had a mortgage, compared to 24 percent of 30 year olds who never had any student debt...

Seven Reasons the Economy Could Be Headed Into Recession

Since the end of the recession in June 2009 the economy grew 2.4 percent in 2010, 1.8 percent in 2011 and 2.2 percent in 2012, with the fourth quarter sinking to a mere 0.4 percent...

Younger Workers Hit the Hardest by Recovery

During the past decade, workers 55 years old and older have gained 9.3 million jobs, while workers age 25 to 54 lost 3 million jobs and workers age 20 to 24 lost 25,000 jobs...


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