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Taxing Wealth
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2020-01-29)
During this presidential primary season, several candidates have proposed a tax on the wealthy to fund platform promises. There is certainly appeal for a wealth tax, as these proposed taxes are seen as a tax on someone ...
Pandemic Misery Index: States and Texas MSAs
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2020-09-25)
How does Texas’ response to the coronavirus pandemic compare to that of other states? In this issue of PERCspectives on Policy, Dennis W. Jansen, Carlos I. Navarro, and Andrew J. Rettenmaier discuss which states, and ...
The Pandemic and Texas State Tax Revenue
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2021-01-22)
Government budgets have undergone drastic changes due to the coronavirus pandemic. In this issue, authors Dennis W. Jansen and Andrew J. Rettenmaier share the state of Texas’ tax collections compared to previous years. ...
Great (Inflation) Expectations
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2021-04-28)
As states have begun to ease pandemic-related restrictions, we enter a new economic period that has the potential for rapid economic growth, but also a period of rising inflation. In this edition of PERCspectives on Policy, ...
Market Risk and Retirement Plans
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2022-01-13)
At retirement, the goal of most workers is to be able to pay their anticipated living expenses using their employer-sponsored retirement plan, savings, and Social Security. Today, most workers’ employer-sponsored retirement ...
The Fed’s Slow Realization of the Inflation Problem
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2022-04-12)
For the 30 years prior to the peak of the previous business cycle in February 2020, monthly inflation rates based on the consumer price index averaged 2.4% while the personal consumption expenditures price index averaged ...
It is Time to Fix Social Security
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2022-09-12)
This year, the Social Security program is projected to run a cash flow deficit of $121 billion, one-fifth of the U.S. annual federal deficit, and is expected to be insolvent in 12 years. In this issue of PERCspectives on ...
Retirement Plan Choice and Public Pension Reform
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2021-09-08)
Despite the private sector’s switch to defined contribution retirement plans, traditional defined benefit pension plans remain dominant in the public sector. In this issue of PERCspectives on Policy, authors Dennis Jansen, ...
Energy and the Economy
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2020-05-06)
With many of the most timely measures of economic activity lagging behind the fast moving changes in the U.S. economy, one source of extremely timely data is energy use. Energy use is not only tied to the weather as we ...