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David Wessel – In the 30 years I spent at The Wall Street Journal, I tried a lot of ways to explain dense but important fiscal, financial, or monetary policies to people who know they’re important but never get to the end of any newspaper story on the subject. One topic is always hard to …
New York Times – F.B.I. Chief Urges Justice Dept. to Reject Wiretap Claim – “The F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, asked the Justice Department this weekend to publicly reject President Trump’s assertion that President Barack Obama ordered the tapping of Mr. Trump’s phones, senior American officials said on Sunday. Mr. Comey has argued that the …
Cauffman, Caroline and Smits, Jan M., The Sharing Economy and the Law: Food for European Lawyers (2016). Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law 23 (2016), pp. 903-907. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2925779 “Over the last five years, the sharing economy has enjoyed a real boom. One important example of this is the creation of numerous …
News release, March 1, 2017: “Chairman Nunes and Ranking Member Schiff have approved the Scope of Investigation for the inquiry by the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence into the Russian active measures campaign targeting the 2016 U.S. election. While the detailed, six-page scoping document remains classified, the investigation will seek to answer the following questions: …
“National Summary – This report was prepared at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York based on information collected on or before February 17, 2017. This document summarizes comments received from contacts outside the Federal Reserve System and is not a commentary on the views of Federal Reserve officials. Overall Economic Activity – Reports from …
“Today, the U.S. Census Bureau released monthly construction spending for January 2017 as well as revised estimates for 2016. Total construction spending in 2016 was estimated at $1,164 billion. This represents a 4.7 percent increase from 2015. Sectors that showed the largest percentage increases were: Lodging (25.4 percent). Office (25.1 percent). Commercial (11.3 percent). Private …
Spending on Infrastructure and Investment Posted by Chad Shirley on March 1, 2017 – “The federal government spends hundreds of billions of dollars every year on infrastructure and other investments, either directly or through grants to state and local governments. During testimony that CBO’s Director gave at the beginning of February on the outlook for …
CRS report via FAS – A New Authorization for Use of Military Force Against the Islamic State: Issues and Current Proposals, updated February 21, 2017 – Matthew C. Weed, Specialist in Foreign Policy Legislation, February 21, 2017. “This report focuses on the several proposals for a new authority for the use of military force [AUMF] …
Via InsideGov: U.S. Federal Budget Collection – includes estimates for Donald Trump Barack Obama Bill Clinton Calvin Coolidge Donald Trump Dwight Eisenhower Franklin D. Roosevelt George H. W. Bush George W. Bush Harry S. Truman Herbert Hoover Jimmy Carter John F. Kennedy Lyndon Johnson Richard Nixon Ronald Reagan Theodore Roosevelt Warren G. Harding William H. …
Hoxby, Caroline M., The Returns to Online Postsecondary Education (February 2017). NBER Working Paper No. w23193. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2924283 “This study analyzes longitudinal data on nearly every person who engaged in postsecondary education that was wholly or substantially online between 1999 and 2014. It shows how much they and taxpayers paid for the education …
National Academies Press: “More than 40 million people living in the United States were born in other countries, and almost an equal number have at least one foreign-born parent. Together, the first generation (foreign-born) and second generation (children of the foreign-born) comprise almost one in four Americans. It comes as little surprise, then, that many …
Understanding the Economic Impact of the H-1B Program on the U.S. – John Bound, Gaurav Khanna, Nicolas Morales – NBER Working Paper No. 23153. Issued in February 2017. “Over the 1990s, the share of foreigners entering the US high-skill workforce grew rapidly. This migration potentially had a significant effect on US workers, consumers and firms. …
