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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 ...
The Federal Reserve In Two Crises
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2020-11-16)
The country has experienced two economic crises in the first two decades of the 21st century, but there are significant differences between the 2008 crisis and the 2020 crisis caused by the pandemic. In this policy study, ...
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 ...
A Presentation on the Coronavirus and The Economy, Updated 6/25
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2020-06-25)
This presentation focuses on the coronavirus pandemic and its impact on College Station-Bryan and the state of Texas. The attached presentation includes information on: Updated national unemployment insurance claims for ...
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 Pandemic Misery Index
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2021-03-18)
The Covid-19 pandemic has brought with it both human and economic loss. The Pandemic Misery Index, or PMI, is a simple metric that measures the effectiveness of pandemic-related public policies by combining the unemployment ...
Federal Liabilities: 2019 Update
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2019-05-17)
The Financial Report of the United States Government (FRUSG), released at the end of March, identifies total federal liabilities of $25.4 trillion as of September 30, 2018. The debt held by the public, $15.8 trillion, ...
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 ...
Texas Pension Woes
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2021-04-12)
The unfunded liabilities from Texas’ many state and local defined benefit pension plans, or the amount a pension fund’s assets cannot cover its liabilities, have snowballed over time and have recently reached unprecedented ...
Business Impact of Covid-19 Pandemic, Bryan-College Station Survey Results
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2020-07-15)
This survey includes responses from businesses in the Bryan-College Station area on the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on operations, employment, and financial situations. The survey, created by staff at the Private ...