Throughout his campaign, Bernie Sanders has stressed that he wants America to be more like Scandinavia. No surprise there, given that the presidential hopeful is a self-proclaimed Democratic socialist. In an interview with ABC’s “This Week,” the Vermont Senator said “In those countries, by and large, government works for ordinary people in the middle class, rather […]
The U.S. economy grew at an anemic rate of less than 1 percent in the last quarter of 2015. While the unemployment rate has dipped below 5 percent, the all-important labor-force participation rate is at a historic low of just 62.7 percent. More than 90 million able-bodied adults are either not currently in the labor […]
Recent turbulence in the international financial markets suggests that the global economy may see a significant downturn running up to the November elections. That in turn could have major implications for the US economic recovery, as well as the election. Our 2016 presidential candidates must weigh the following five issues, and be able to provide cogent policy solutions […]
This year’s Republican presidential race has generated an unusual number of unusually bad ideas — Donald Trump on Muslims, Ted Cruz on carpet bombing, Marco Rubio on male footwear. It has also has produced one of the best: Jeb Bush’s 4 percent plan. No, that wasn’t his desired share of the vote in the Iowa […]
Presidential campaigns are a free-for-all when it comes to platitudes, promises, and pronouncements. Candidates and their supporters – in some cases, the White House – say what they need to say to garner votes, seemingly without considering the rigor or the implication of their arguments. Presidential hopefuls tend to focus on the state of the […]