Daily Policy Digest
Economic Issues
| Is the Export-Import Bank Another Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac? Among the Export-Import Bank's pet projects that have received enormous amounts of assistance are Solyndra and Enron, signaling the lack of accountability its administration is subject to... |
| Why France Has So Many 49-Employee Companies French labor laws are regulated by the 102-year-old Code du Travail, a 3,200-page rule book that dictates everything from job classifications to the ability to fire workers... |
| What Will My Retirement Account Really Be Worth? Among Americans with pensions, the share with only a traditional defined benefit pension fell from 60 percent to 10 percent between 1980 and 2003... |
| One in Three Young U.S. Workers Are Underemployed Aggregately, young people face a 13.6 percent unemployment rate while the economy as a whole faces mere 8 percent unemployment... |
| License to Work While only one in 20 workers in the 1950s required licensing, that figure has since risen to one in three... |
| Job-Creating Foreign Investment in United States Lags The United States attracted about 17 percent of global investment in 2009; this is down sharply from over 41 percent in 1999... |
| The Moral Case for Capitalism Since 1800, the world's population has increased six fold, yet despite this enormous increase, real income per person has increased approximately 16-fold... |
| Stock Market Reactions to Political Events The implied value of George Bush's 2000 victory was equivalent to a transfer of over $100 billion in market capitalization from the firms in the pro-Al Gore portfolio to those in the pro-Bush portfolio... |
| Beyond Austerity European nations serve as a near-perfect model for how labor markets should not operate if an economy is to gain traction on the road to recovery... |
| California's Class Divide By 2010, California families in the 90th percentile had incomes 12 times higher than the incomes of families in the 10th percentile -- significantly higher than the national ratio... |
