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October 19, 2021
AEIdeas

House reconciliation bill struggles with Biden’s flawed $400,000 tax pledge

by Alan D. Viard

Joe Biden made a sweeping and misguided pledge not to raise taxes on anyone earning less than $400,000 per year. Although the pledge may be a good sound bite, it is a flawed policy constraint. To facilitate tax reform and fiscal discipline, Democrats should abandon the pledge.

EconomicsPolitical EconomyTax ReformUS Economy
Blog Post
October 19, 2021
AEIdeas

Is the spike in federal revenue permanent?

by Kyle Pomerleau

The Congressional Budget Office projects a spike in federal tax receipts for the 2021 fiscal year. However, some of the estimated revenue growth could be temporary as taxpayers adjust income and expenses to avoid expected tax increases.

EconomicsTax ReformUS Economy
Blog Post
October 19, 2021
AEIdeas

Corrupt parents generate energetic condemnation, but a USC shakedown artist? Mostly yawns

by Frederick M. Hess

A parent buying his kid’s way into school draws sweeping diatribes about privilege. Fair enough. But it’s hard to square that outrage with the disinterest that greets a campus shakedown artist selling access to elected officials.

EducationHigher Education
Blog Post
October 19, 2021
AEIdeas

A fraught linkage: US-China trade policy and the US-EU Trade and Technology Council

by Claude Barfield

The Biden administration recently unveiled its China trade and investment policy, and participated in the first US-EU Trade and Technology Council meeting. But substantive results were inconclusive in both cases, leaving major questions unanswered for America’s global allies.

Digital TradeEconomicsTechnology and Innovation
Blog Post
October 18, 2021
AEIdeas

New survey data raises questions about the expanded Child Tax Credit

by Angela Rachidi

Child Tax Credit payments are not well targeted because a sizeable share of families reported that they saved the payments or that the payments were not that important in meeting their day-to-day expenses.

Poverty Studies
Blog Post
October 18, 2021
AEIdeas

A new look at wealth concentration in America

by James Pethokoukis

A new working paper suggests wealth is less concentrated among the top 0.1 percent than previously estimated, raising questions about the revenue-raising potential and administrative difficulty of wealth taxes.

EconomicsPethokoukisUS Economy
Blog Post
October 18, 2021
AEIdeas

New England liberal arts colleges may look good in pictures, but they are dangerous to American civility

by Samuel J. Abrams

New data show students at liberal arts colleges are the most repressive when it comes to issues of free speech. Too many liberal arts schools have clearly failed to teach their students about the critical import of viewpoint diversity.

Politics and Public OpinionPollsSociety and Culture
Blog Post
October 18, 2021
AEIdeas

Is China quitting the economic race?

by Derek Scissors

The conventional reaction to new Chinese GDP statistics is that China’s economy is surprisingly sluggish. Actually, China’s economy has been this sluggish, but the Chinese Communist Party previously refused to admit it. The big story is it’s just possible they may no longer care.

AsiaForeign and Defense Policy
Blog Post
October 15, 2021
AEIdeas

All hands on deck: Neurodiversity and the future of work

by Brent Orrell

In the context of today’s post-pandemic labor shortage, one persistently excluded pool of talent is neurodivergent individuals — those on the autism spectrum as well as those with ADHD, bipolar, dyslexia, and several other intellectual and developmental profiles.

Poverty Studies
Blog Post
October 15, 2021
AEIdeas

5 questions for Arthur Turrell on fusion energy

by James Pethokoukis | Arthur Turrell

Arthur Turrell looks to the future of energy, explaining recent scientific advances in fusion reactors and discussing fusion’s advantages over nuclear fission and renewables like solar and wind power.

EconomicsEnvironmental and Energy EconomicsPethokoukis
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Economics

Blog Post
October 19, 2021
AEIdeas

House reconciliation bill struggles with Biden’s flawed $400,000 tax pledge

by Alan D. Viard

Joe Biden made a sweeping and misguided pledge not to raise taxes on anyone earning less than $400,000 per year. Although the pledge may be a good sound bite, it is a flawed policy constraint. To facilitate tax reform and fiscal discipline, Democrats should abandon the pledge.

EconomicsPolitical EconomyTax ReformUS Economy
Blog Post
October 19, 2021
AEIdeas

Is the spike in federal revenue permanent?

by Kyle Pomerleau

The Congressional Budget Office projects a spike in federal tax receipts for the 2021 fiscal year. However, some of the estimated revenue growth could be temporary as taxpayers adjust income and expenses to avoid expected tax increases.

EconomicsTax ReformUS Economy
Blog Post
October 19, 2021
AEIdeas

A fraught linkage: US-China trade policy and the US-EU Trade and Technology Council

by Claude Barfield

The Biden administration recently unveiled its China trade and investment policy, and participated in the first US-EU Trade and Technology Council meeting. But substantive results were inconclusive in both cases, leaving major questions unanswered for America’s global allies.

Digital TradeEconomicsTechnology and Innovation
Blog Post
October 18, 2021
AEIdeas

A new look at wealth concentration in America

by James Pethokoukis

A new working paper suggests wealth is less concentrated among the top 0.1 percent than previously estimated, raising questions about the revenue-raising potential and administrative difficulty of wealth taxes.

EconomicsPethokoukisUS Economy
Blog Post
October 15, 2021
AEIdeas

5 questions for Arthur Turrell on fusion energy

by James Pethokoukis | Arthur Turrell

Arthur Turrell looks to the future of energy, explaining recent scientific advances in fusion reactors and discussing fusion’s advantages over nuclear fission and renewables like solar and wind power.

EconomicsEnvironmental and Energy EconomicsPethokoukis
Blog Post
October 14, 2021
AEIdeas

House reconciliation bill would remove misguided tax penalty on students with drug records

by Alan D. Viard

Under current law, any student with drug felony convictions is barred from claiming the American Opportunity credit. Congress should remove the drug-felony bar so the tax credit credit can provide opportunity to Americans with drug convictions who are pursuing higher education.

EconomicsTax Reform
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Foreign and Defense Policy

Blog Post
October 18, 2021
AEIdeas

Is China quitting the economic race?

by Derek Scissors

The conventional reaction to new Chinese GDP statistics is that China’s economy is surprisingly sluggish. Actually, China’s economy has been this sluggish, but the Chinese Communist Party previously refused to admit it. The big story is it’s just possible they may no longer care.

AsiaForeign and Defense Policy
Blog Post
October 06, 2021
AEIdeas

Facebook: Being 21st-century national infrastructure demands responsibility

by Elisabeth Braw

Social networks are part of critical national infrastructure and should be treated as such. An industry that can influence people’s individual behavior and, indeed, the way in which democratic societies conduct public discourse and elect their leaders must clearly follow more stringent rules.

Foreign and Defense Policy
Blog Post
October 05, 2021
AEIdeas

Another Biden policy IOU on China

by Derek Scissors

United States Trade Representative Katherine Tai rightly noted that China’s global economic distortions have hurt American workers and firms for decades, then outlined a completely inadequate response. We shouldn’t accept it.

AsiaForeign and Defense Policy
Blog Post
September 27, 2021
AEIdeas

Will Biden also accept Chinese IP theft?

by Derek Scissors

Chinese courts have declared that their firms can’t be sued anywhere in the world for theft of intellectual property. This is just one, recent event in decades of intellectual property theft and coercion by China and utter American failure to respond.

AsiaForeign and Defense Policy
Blog Post
September 23, 2021
AEIdeas

More empty talk on export controls

by Derek Scissors

If the Bureau of Industry and Security can’t restrict China from gaining certain foundational and emerging technologies for its military, for driving American companies out of business, and for repressing human rights, the bureau is harming the country.

AsiaForeign and Defense Policy
Blog Post
September 21, 2021
AEIdeas

Beyond AUKUS: 5 practical recommendations

by Zack Cooper

The AUKUS deal announced last week will aid Australia’s defense and could also help to stabilize the deteriorating military balance in Asia and reassure some countries of America’s commitment. The US should capitalize on this momentum.

AsiaDefenseForeign and Defense Policy
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Tech Policy

Blog Post
October 19, 2021
AEIdeas

A fraught linkage: US-China trade policy and the US-EU Trade and Technology Council

by Claude Barfield

The Biden administration recently unveiled its China trade and investment policy, and participated in the first US-EU Trade and Technology Council meeting. But substantive results were inconclusive in both cases, leaving major questions unanswered for America’s global allies.

Digital TradeEconomicsTechnology and Innovation
Blog Post
October 15, 2021
AEIdeas

What’s going on at the Federal Trade Commission? Highlights from a conversation with Bilal Sayyed

by Shane Tews | Mark Jamison

Under Chairwoman Lina Khan’s leadership, the Federal Trade Commission is undergoing process reforms that will make the commission less democratic by allocating more power to the chair herself. AEI’s Shane Tews and Mark Jamison hosted an “Explain to Shane” discussion with Bilal Sayyed to hear his thoughts.

Technology and Innovation
Blog Post
October 14, 2021
AEIdeas

‘Restoration’ of 2011 patent reform bill faces headwinds

by Michael Rosen

A proposed bill to revitalize the 2011 America Invents Act has energized both strong support and opposition from interest groups. Passage in its current form is thus highly uncertain.

Intellectual PropertyTechnology and Innovation
Blog Post
October 13, 2021
AEIdeas

So Big Tech massively investing in itself is worrisome now?

by James Pethokoukis

Big Tech’s critics in Washington view America’s most successful firms as anticompetitive crony capitalists, but the tech giants stay on top because they are some of the most innovative companies in the US — and their investments in research and development should be celebrated.

EconomicsPethokoukisTechnology and Innovation
Blog Post
October 13, 2021
AEIdeas

Markets are addressing Facebook’s problems

by Mark Jamison

Despite Facebook’s recent problems, antitrust regulators struggle to show that Facebook has actual market power, and competition is rising to provide the discipline that regulation has failed. More regulation and antitrust prosecutions are thus unnecessary.

Technology and Innovation
Blog Post
October 12, 2021
AEIdeas

The coming fusion revolution: My long-read Q&A with Arthur Turrell

by James Pethokoukis | Arthur Turrell

Arthur Turrell explains the science behind fusion energy, predicting that this technology could be supplying abundant, clean power in the near future. Discussing the advantages of renewables and the difficulties fission power has faced, Turrell explores the politics and economics of nuclear power.

EconomicsEnvironmental and Energy EconomicsPethokoukisTechnology and Innovation
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