... the U.S. federal government responsible for the civil space program, has taken full advantage of these advanced technologies. Its Langley Research Center sits on a 764-acres campus (about the size of ...More
EJ Insight2023-11-01
... to the US Federal Reserve’s decision to hold rates steady in September, our outlook has differed from the consensus on two key points. Firstly, we believe inflation and interest rates will stay higher ...More
EJ Insight2023-10-31
... ven after federal transfers had lapsed. Other new work shows how World War II-era investments in American defense-industry plants resulted in permanent increases in regional employment and in a persis ...More
EJ Insight2023-10-20
When COVID-19 sent the economy into a tailspin in 2020, it resulted in 2.4 million excess retirements, according to research from the Federal Reserve of St. Louis in the United States. But many of the ...More
EJ Insight2023-09-27
Bank capital is back in the financial headlines. In late July, US banking regulators, led by the Federal Reserve, announced plans to finalize the so-called Basel 3 reforms (which banks like to call Ba ...More
EJ Insight2023-09-27
... 0.02% of federal-government spending – or less than 50 cents per American per month. For comparison, there are nearly 700 higher-education institutions in the US with endowments over $1 billion. Broa ...More
EJ Insight2023-09-20
... e Atlanta Federal Penitentiary, where he was serving a ten-year sentence for violating the Sedition Act of 1918 by delivering a speech opposing the United States’ involvement in World War I. Running a ...More
EJ Insight2023-09-12
... e Atlanta Federal Penitentiary, where he was serving a ten-year sentence for violating the Sedition Act of 1918 by delivering a speech opposing the United States’ involvement in World War I. Running a ...More
EJ Insight2023-09-11
... on the US Federal Reserve’s monetary policy. The introduction of the euro could have diminished the dollar’s dominance if eurozone member states had agreed to allow their financial instruments to be l ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-28
... receiving federal grants from the Department of Energy. As it stood, such allegations were demonstrably false - the open letter by 170 faculty members pointed to how Gang was acting in accordance with ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-28
... t, the US Federal Reserve will need to be prepared to go further to bring inflation down to an acceptable range. Copyright: Project Syndicate -- Contact us at [email protected] ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-18
... te the US Federal Reserve and other central banks’ aggressive monetary tightening, real interest rates remained significantly negative until late 2022. Moreover, long-term rates increased more moderat ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-16
... urtailing federal regulators’ powers. Instead of allowing for flexibility in achieving carbon-reduction goals, the EPA is taking a more direct approach, essentially mandating that existing coal plants ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-15
... re of the Federal Reserve to anticipate inflationary pressure and act preemptively. The Fed waited until March 2022, when headline inflation was running at nearly 8%, to begin raising interest rates. ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-14
... .1 The US Federal Reserve controls the short end of the curve. While three-month rates are a little higher, the market controls the ten-year rates, which are around 3.7%. The curve is significantly in ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-11
Last week the U.S. Department of Justice charged Donald Trump with attempting to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. It was the second Federal indictment against him in two months. ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-10
