Daily Policy Digest
| The Risky Mortgage Business: The Problem with the 30-Year Fixed-Rate Mortgage Because the government protects large financial institutions that provide mortgages, there is less regulation, which allows lenders to make risker decisions that often end up hurting the taxpayer... |
| The Hated Property Tax: Salience, Tax Rates and Tax Revolts In 1970, property taxes comprised 3.3 percent of gross domestic product (GDP); by 2000, they comprised only 2.5 percent of GDP... |
| Companies Prepare for Health Law By January 1, 2014, employers with 50 or more workers will have to pay penalties if they don't cover full-time employees with health insurance... |
| A Bipartisan Nation of Beneficiaries Nearly 55 percent of Americans have received government benefits from a major entitlement program... |
| High-Profile Studies Overrate Going to College and Picking the Right Major Only 58 percent of new college students that started in 2004 graduated in six years... |
| Trillion-Dollar Deficits Are Sustainable for Now, Unfortunately Even with a trillion-dollar budget deficit, it is unlikely that the United States will experience a debt crisis similar to what other countries like Greece and Spain did... |
| Another Ho-Hum Year for the Economy Likely in 2013 The Federal Reserve expected growth between 2.3 percent to 3 percent; however, it now expects 2012 to close with annual growth no better than 1.8 percent... |
| India and the United States: How Individuals and Corporations Have Driven Indo-U.S. Relations Whereas most foreign policy discussions focus on government policies and diplomatic initiatives, relations between India and the United States have been driven substantially by corporations and individuals... |
| Why ObamaCare's Health Care Cost Controls Won't Work With regard to financial incentives, there is little evidence that pay-for-performance reduces overall health costs... |
| A Resistance Movement Rises Up Against ObamaCare The Congressional Budget Office expects at least 6 million people to pay the initial $95 fine rather than purchase health insurance... |
