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Investing in Future Generation: Relating Debt Reduction and Environmental Protection
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2016-12-01)
Governments often engage in activities that affect the welfare of future generations in opposite directions. Long-term projects aimed at protecting the environment benefit future generations, whereas increasing government ...
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 ...
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 ...
Statistics of Income County-to-County Migration Data: An Overview
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2016-03-01)
The aim of this document is to present some basic information and general trends in the data used to create the PERC county-to-county migration overview map. As such, the analysis is limited only to variables used on the ...
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 ...
The Corporate Financing Effects of the Temporary Tax Deduction for Repatriated Dividends
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2016-07-01)
With the intent of stimulating domestic investment and employment, the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004 included a provision under section 965 that allowed for a one-time tax deduction on repatriated dividends. In ...