Taxes and Public Spending
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"The US needs a 'New New Deal,' or a set of expansive government programs and reforms to help cash-strapped, jobless Americans and struggling businesses," says Matthew Jackson.
April 21, 2020
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Amit Seru argues that debt relief is a crucial factor in how fast the economy can recover, and urges the government to take action...
April 15, 2020
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The IRS's dispersal of stimulus checks "is a massive operation, and let's hope they know what they're doing since people need that money," says SIEPR Senior Fellow Anat Admati.
April 15, 2020
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"Looking beyond today鈥檚 public-health imperatives, the US must develop an economic strategy that does not override markets," according to Michael Boskin and John Taylor.
April 13, 2020
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SIEPR Senior Fellow Amit Seru shares insight on some of the ways that private-equity firms purchasing a company can sometimes lead to layoffs.
April 06, 2020
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"Speeding the development of vaccines and effective drug therapies by vastly increasing the rewards for businesses would decisively limit the economic damage," says Hanno Lustig.
March 31, 2020
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"Now that the Cares Act is law, policy makers need to find ways to impose restrictions on how the money is deployed," says SIEPR Senior Fellow Amit Seru.
March 30, 2020
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鈥淭his is really going to be a recession unlike anything we have ever seen before,鈥 said Mark Duggan, who is both the director of SIEPR and a SIEPR Senior Fellow.
March 26, 2020
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SIEPR Senior Fellow Ed Lazear discusses the need for liquidity, relief for small businesses, and potential recovery rate.
March 26, 2020
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"There is no reason that the federal government should spend upward of $50 billion to bail out airlines [...]"
March 26, 2020
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"The US must take steps to limit job-destroying regulations and avert growth-sapping tax increases 鈥 before it鈥檚 too late," says SIEPR Senior Fellow John Taylor.
March 26, 2020
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An open letter drafted by 乐鱼体育 professors says the coronavirus stimulus package should benefit workers 鈥 not corporations and their wealthy shareholders.
March 26, 2020
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"The government should provide what economists call liquidity [...]," says SIEPR Senior Fellow Ed Lazear.
March 24, 2020
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John Taylor鈥擲enior Fellow at SIEPR and the Hoover Institution鈥攄iscusses policy response to the coronavirus economic crisis.
March 19, 2020
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"Thousands of rules need to bend to help thousands of businesses and millions of people," says SIEPR Senior Fellow John Cochrane.
March 17, 2020
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SIEPR Senior Fellow John Taylor discusses the outlook for Federal Reserve monetary policy amid the coronavirus outbreak.
March 13, 2020
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Michael Boskin, professor of economics and Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and SIEPR, discusses the president's strategy for re-election.
February 21, 2020
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The I.R.S. sent a letter to 3.9 million people and a new study co-authored by Faculty Fellow Jacob Goldin shows that these letters may have saved approximately 700 lives.
December 10, 2019
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What are the implications of California鈥檚 pension debt? Joe Nation, Project Director of the Pension Tracker Project, shares his thoughts.
September 24, 2019
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SIEPR Summit highlights trade, tech and THC
As ominous as some of the topics were at the SIEPR Economic Summit, they are among some of today鈥檚 most pressing policy questions.
March 12, 2019