I finally felt the need to write a PPR-style response to this DP opinion piece, because…well, it’s just so inaccurate. Let’s dive right in. The Woes of Debt-to-GDP Ratios First, debt-to-GDP ratios. These are all the rage nowadays because Reinhart-Rogoff supposedly proved that countries that pass the 90% mark have reached some dire point-of-no-return. That’s not entirely true. Yale’s Robert [...]
By: Samuel Ruddy As John Kerry makes his way to becoming the next Secretary of State, one of the most important and informative events of the confirmation process has passed and is starting to fade out of memory: the vilification of Susan Rice. Her testimony in front of Congress about the September 11, 2012 attacks on the American embassy in [...]
By: Chad Klitzman Snails are very interesting creatures. Notorious for their languid personalities, snails have long been symbols of laziness and, in Christian text, symbols of the fourth deadly sin, sloth. This piece is not about snails, nor is it about the fourth deadly sin. This piece is about the postal service and how communication via the postal service is [...]
By John Cheo LET’S TAKE a walk down memory lane. Remember the kid in middle school with whom no one would form a team for a group project because he sounded, acted, dressed, or smelled weird? Or the kid in high school to whom an invitation to the coolest party would not be extended on similar grounds? Open, voluntary association [...]
By: Benjamin Droz Today’s world does not have a welcome mat for high school graduates. In fact, it seems that the more one looks into the job market, the less accessible it appears. A college degree is increasingly important for the careers that allow Americans to live at a middle class level and raise a family in any degree of [...]
By: Jonathan Fried By 2020, our gross national debt will breach $20 trillion. This is not a popular reality; few want America to hold debts exceeding 100% of its GDP, and many, particularly conservatives, see debt reduction as our top national priority. A fierce debate now exists regarding the United States’ fiscal maneuverability and the point at which the public [...]
By: Isaac A. Blancas “Queremos independencia desde austeridad de España,” translated as “we want independence from Spain’s austerity.” This was only one of the many chants that rang out across the Cortes Generales, Spain’s main parliamentary institution, during the mass protests earlier in September. The austerity measures are among the most contentious issues that define the current European sovereign-debt crisis, [...]
By: Gregory Segal In the summer of 2012, the eyes of the country looked toward the Supreme Court as it debated the Affordable Care Act. Given this recent focus on the Court, conversation regarding its functionality has become more prevalent. However, this discourse is lacking: while people usually identify problems with the court, proposals of specific ways to resolve these [...]
By: Anthony Cruz 1) Birth: For all of those who didn’t know, Kim Jong Il was a god. He is shown by Soviet records to have been born in 1941 in the Soviet Union while his father was in exile. However, his official biography states that he was born in Korea proper at a military camp on North Korea’s Mt. [...]
Ron Haskins is a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, where he is the Co-Director of the Center on Children and Families, and Budgeting for National Priorities. He was a longtime welfare policy advisor to Republicans on the House Ways and Means Committee, and he played a pivotal role in drafting the 1996 Welfare Reform law. After his service in [...]
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