Floored! - How a Misguided Fed Experiment Deepened and Prolonged the Great Recession
In October 2008, as the U.S. economy plunged, the Federal Reserve began paying interest on banks' reserve balances. The resulting switch to a "floor system" of monetary control, in which changes in th...
29 Tammi 201958min
Taxing Wars: The American Way of War Finance And the Decline of Democracy
Taxing Wars explores how a country decides to pay for wars and how that decision shapes how the public and the military experience the conflict.Dr. Kreps explores how the way that the United States ha...
28 Tammi 20191h
The Inequality of the Equality Act: Concerns from the Left
Who could be against a law that promises equality and bans discrimination? Parents who’ve already experienced grief, despair, and witnessed medical harms as they attempted to get help for their gender...
28 Tammi 20191h 11min
Freedom and Prosperity: The 2019 Index of Economic Freedom
The Index of Economic Freedom (www.heritage.org/index) celebrates its 25th Anniversary in 2019!The Index evaluates government policies and economic conditions in 186 countries. Since its inception in ...
25 Tammi 20191h 15min
The D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program at 15: Impacts, Experiences, and the Path Forward
In 2004, the first students began participating in the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program – a private school choice program serving low-income families in Washington, D.C. This year marks 15 years o...
23 Tammi 20191h 6min
Blockchain: What it Is and How it Can Help Prevent Identity Theft
Last year alone, 16.7 million individuals suffered some form of identity theft. This crime exposes victims to many difficulties in their daily lives, ranging from the inability to participate in our e...
23 Tammi 20191h 14min
The Way Forward for the U.S. in a Post-INF World
On December 4, 2018, after five years of failed attempts to get Russia to return to compliance with the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty obligations and verifiably destroy its 9M729 miss...
23 Tammi 20191h 24min
Economic Equality is Unjust
Conservatives, classical liberals and libertarians celebrate the fact that people have unequal (or diverse) talents, preferences, risk averseness, attachments and cultures because these are the centra...
22 Tammi 20191h 1min
