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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 ...
Methodology for Constructing an Economic Index for the College Station-Bryan Metropolitan Statistical Area
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2018-10-21)
This paper describes the need for timely GDP information, methodology, and data sources used to create the monthly publication, Economic Indicators.
Federal Reserve Asset Reductions and the Economy
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2019-06-07)
At its September 2017 meeting, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System announced that they would begin to reverse the massive acquisition of assets that began in 2009. What has been the impact of these asset ...
Federal Reserve Monetary Policy in the 21st Century
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2023-07-21)
In the 21st Century, the tools of monetary policy changed fundamentally with the onset of the Great Recession and the Covid-Pandemic, both of which led to significant asset expansions of the Federal Reserve to the tune of ...
Monetary Policy in a Zero or Negative Interest Rate World
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2019-12-20)
The persistence of negative interest rates in the Euro-Zone and Japan coupled with low inflation raises the question of the efficacy of central banking in a negative interest rate world. Given that interest rates have been ...
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 ...
Getting Out of Our Health Insurance Quagmire
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2019-09-03)
Per-capita spending on health care in the U.S. is the highest in the world, and it is not clear that this high spending generates additional health benefits. This high spending, coupled with high and rising health insurance ...
Free Banking Is Back?
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2022-11-15)
While none of the current cryptocurrencies, themselves, currently circulate in general commerce, many crypto exchanges have arisen that exchange the various cryptocurrencies for one another and for titles to U.S. dollars. ...
Money and Banking When Reserves Pay Interest
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2020-04-09)
The Federal Reserve’s decision in 2008 to begin paying interest on bank reserves, particularly excess reserves (the IOER), has changed the role of the banking system and the determination of the nation’s money supply. ...
Navigating the Earned Income Tax Credit
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2017-09-01)
The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) is the federal government's largest means-tested cash assistance program. The popular anti-poverty program's maximum credits and income eligibility ranges have been legislatively increased ...