Results for “National Policy Institute”

…e they exclude the long-term cost of public pension and other post employment benefit (OPEB) liabilities. Note: 1) Per National Conference of State Legislatures, State fiscal years ends in June. $70B aggregate excludes deficits from Puerto Rico ($3B deficits in F2009). 2) Debt-...

…of the article is instructive. Anyone living and working in rural communities knows the playing field is not level. The National Environmental Policy Act has become the preferred tool to delay and iitigate grazing permit renewals for American ranchers. Livestock grazing on public...

…y’s globe-striding posture, while expensive and exhausting and admittedly inefficient, is a crucial element of our rich national power. Yes, we spend 15% of our GDP on security activities, but we reap far more in return: Access to the best minds in the world, a secure life, a cul...

…curity have put the two pillars of the social welfare system on the table for re-examination. The growing weight of the national debt has given urgency to the question of whether the government has become too big and expensive. The tepid nature of the current economic recovery,...

…tor Office, McKinsey & Co. Chm, Hope Street Group.Boards: William and Flora Hewlett Foundation; Pacific Council on International Policy; Center for American Progress. *David Barron*i¢% Professor, Harvard Law School. Fmr Acting AsstuU.s. Attorney General in the office of Legal Co...

… the Chinese leadership are now starting to ask, why bother? They argue that in technology, investment, foreign policy, national security and human rights, the Trump administration has made it clear that it has embarked on a more adversarial position toward China. So why should B...

…030962 on seven core issues: the family, the sanctity of human life, religious liberty, education, sexual exploitation, national sovereignty, and support for Israel." (Emphasis added) Its leader, Penny Nance, has called for Acosta's resignation. Noting that labor trafficking, whi...

…e Slaughter Article S- | Foreign Policy Sinai’s Bedouin run amok in post-Mubarak Egypt Mohamed Fadel Fahmy ance |The National Interest Foreign-Policy Failure Dimitri K. Simes Article 5. NYT Cheney Says He Urged Bush to Bomb Syria in ’07 Charlie Savage Article ®- | Ma'an Ne...

…cy values of the American people. Today’s interdependent global economy requires that trade policy be developed at the national and state level. Many states have recognized the opportunity for realizing significant benefits by seeking to increase trade with Israel. Arizona is on...

…les. Capital accumulation does not exist. Any attempt lowers consumption with no growth to show for it. Keep track of national wealth including human capital by my method here, and also by Petty’s of 1664, 1676 and 1685. What would we think of corporate management that added up...

…ectives not just about each other, but also about the Estonian state and its history, its threat environ- ment, and its national security policies. Since these two Estonias do not fully trust one another, when security developments put pressure on the country they tend to drift t...

40-Year USA Inc. Data Points and Trends “65-05 1965 2005 Change National’ Healthcare Spending as % of GDP 6% > 16% 167% Federal? Healthcare Spending as % of GDP 1 > 5 o Out-of-Pocket Healthcare Spending as % of GDP 3 > 2 - % of Adult Population Considered Obese 13 > 32 146 % of...

…r land? Historians discuss this. Schools never do. Nevertheless, peo- ple are upset because our students don’t know our national myths and some random facts. The real issue in the healthcare debate is that the general public can’t think clearly. That would have a simple explanat...

…U.S. action there. Indeed, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said as much this weekend, noting that Libya was not a "vital national interest." But if Washington is looking for an Arab state in the throes of unrest, one that is key to its regional and national interests, planners mig...

…4 28 32 36 40 Quarters After Recession Trough Data as of December 2016. Source: Investment Strategy Group, Bloomberg, National Bureau of Economic Research. In our 2016 Outlook and our 2016 Insight report, Walled In: China’s Great Dilemma, we stated that China was unlikely to h...