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How Much Will We Spend on Health Care?
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2016-10-10)
This atypical election cycle has diverted attention from the growing evidence that premiums for health insurance sold on the exchanges are rising while options have declined. Health expenditures are also again growing ...
Rethinking Federal Debt: What Do We Really Owe?
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2016-08-01)
Ever since the Federal Reserve began its series of Quantitative Easing Federal Reserve assets have increased fourfold. During this same period federal deficits have increased the level of publicly held debt by 260%. There ...
Paying for Medicare Now and in the Future
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2016-03-01)
Medicare celebrated its golden anniversary this past year. The program now provides insurance coverage for over 50 million Americans, and accounts for 20 percent of the nation's health care spending. Its shares of the ...
The Federal Reserve, the Great Recession and the Lost Inflation
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2016-07-01)
Ever since the Federal Reserve began its series of Quantitative Easing, traditional monetary economists have been predicting levels of inflation that would rival the inflation of the late 1970’s and early 1980’s. The ...
A Primer on Measures of Government Financing Shortfalls and Liabilities
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2016-08-01)
This note presents measures of financing shortfalls and liabilities, both for an individual government program such as Social Security and for government financing as a whole. At the level of individual programs, the widely ...
Is the Federal Reserve Independent?
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2016-05-09)
The power to coin money and regulate the value thereof is constitutionally delegated to Congress, preventing true Federal Reserve independence. This issue of PERCspectives on Policy, by PERC Director Thomas Saving, discusses ...
Migration Nation
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2016-01-01)
Every year thousands of Americans move across county lines. In general, non-migrants experience higher average incomes than their migrant counterparts. This issue of PERCspectives on Policy explores how migrants and ...
Health Care Spending in the United States: What is Next?
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2016-12-01)
Health care spending will always command public policy attention given the prominence of government payers in this market and the role played by the tax system in subsidizing health insurance purchases. But, with President-elect ...
Federal Liabilities: 2016 Update
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2016-08-01)
The 2015 Financial Report of the United States Government (FRUSG) identifies total federal liabilities of $21.5 trillion as of September 30, 2015. The debt held by the public, $13.2 trillion, comprises 61% of these ...