Bank Lending and Interest on Excess Reserves
Public finance fellow Thomas Hogan analyzes the relationship between bank lending and the Federal Reserve's policy of paying…
February 7, 2018 3351 Results
Venezuela’s Oil Mythologies Have Hindered Its Development
Cultural myths — and by extension, the suppositions they inspire — have played a major role in shaping Venezuela's…
February 5, 2018 
Refinement of the Affordable Care Act
Vivian Ho, director of the Center for Health and Biosciences, examines some of the major reasons critics dislike the…
January 31, 2018 
Trump Policy in the Middle East: ISIS
This brief on the Trump administration's approach to the battle against ISIS is the first of a three-part series on America…
January 29, 2018 
Anti-Qatar Embargo Grinds Toward Strategic Failure
The list of 13 demands presented in June 2017 by Bahrain, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates suggests a…
January 22, 2018 
Latin America Initiative | Commentary
Corruption, Impeachment and a Pardon: A Political Crisis in Peru Days after Peru's Congress nearly impeached the country's president, Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, he pardoned his authoritarian…
January 18, 2018 
Employment Among Patients Starting Dialysis in the United States
Nonresident scholar Kevin Erickson is a co-author of a study that examined trends in employment among patients initiating…
January 18, 2018 
Measuring Female Labor Force Participation in the GCC
This brief explores how a quirk in the measurement of women’s labor force participation and the demographic peculiarities of…
January 18, 2018 
A Primer on Gross Receipts Taxes
At least four states are currently considering a gross receipts tax (GRT) to improve revenues, yet Texas legislators have…
January 9, 2018 
Geopolitical Dimensions of U.S. Oil Security
The United States appears less exposed to geopolitical risks affecting its oil supply than at any time since the early 1970s…
January 4, 2018