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Avoiding the Mistakes of the Past: Rejecting Protectionism and Embracing the Global Economy
(Mosbacher Institute for Trade, Economics & Public Policy, 2014-08)
The “Great Recession” of 2008 was the greatest global financial crisis since the Great Depression. It led to the bankrupting of businesses, caused credit markets to dry up, imploded the housing market, and led to a near ...
A Time for Political Courage: The Federal Debt Crisis in 2014
(Mosbacher Institute for Trade, Economics & Public Policy, 2014-01)
Like many Americans, Uncle Sam has a bad habit of spending more than he earns. The federal government’s total expenditures exceeded its total revenues in 36 of the last 40 years. In 2012, federal government revenues were ...
The Elitism of Armed Rebellion
(Mosbacher Institute for Trade, Economics & Public Policy, 2012-09)
IT Can Be Done: Reducing Payment Errors in Unemployment Insurance
(Mosbacher Institute for Trade, Economics & Public Policy, 2017-09)
The United States Unemployment Insurance Program is a very complex system where mistakes are inevitable, but information technology and communication innovations at the Department of Labor (DOL) have been successful at ...
Local Government Control: The Case of Municipal Incorporation in The Woodlands Township, Texas
(Mosbacher Institute for Trade, Economics & Public Policy, 2012-10)
Warfare is a “Train Wreck” for Global Supply Chains: What can governments do to mitigate its ill effects?
(Mosbacher Institute for Trade, Economics & Public Policy, 2012-09)
A Smart, Price-Based Energy Policy
(Mosbacher Institute for Trade, Economics & Public Policy, 2017-03)
Energy policy in the United States is fatally flawed both in the process by which problems are identified and in the solutions that are chosen. It relies too heavily on subsidies, tax credits, grants, and mandates, when ...
Shifting the Culture of Quarantine
(2017-02-28)
Quarantine will likely never be a comfortable experience for anyone, but there are concrete steps that can be taken to improve the experience and help shift perceptions of quarantine in the United States from punishment ...
The Role and Importance of the National Security Advisor
(2017)
It is impossible to talk about the role of the National Security Advisor without talking about Brent Scowcroft. It is fair to say that Henry Kissinger was the father of the “ inter-agency system” that is still with us ...
Global Health Security: The Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network
(2017-02-28)
: In the mid-1990s two infectious disease outbreaks – Pneumonic Plague in Surat, India and Ebola in Kikwit, Democratic Republic of Congo (then Zaire) - caused great concern globally. At that time the standard communication ...