Taxes and Public Spending
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Bessent says the U.S. can grow its way out of the debt crunch. What would it take?
Joshua Rauh, SIEPR senior fellow, tells the Wall Street Journal that reforming Social Security and Medicare is crucial to addressing the country's fiscal problems.
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What's behind the big surge in US government bond yields
Bloomberg podcast, "Odd Lots," turns to Darrell Duffie, SIEPR senior fellow and presenter at the recent Jackson Hole Fed meeting, for insights into what's driving global bond yields to their highest levels since 2008 and what policymakers can and can't do to bring them back down.
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Some states banned the use of food stamps to buy soda. Did it work?
The New York Times, writing about government efforts to lower sugar consumption, references new research by SIEPR's Hunt Allcott concluding that a nationwide ban on using SNAP funds to buy sugary drinks would provide about $1.1 billion a year in economic benefits, mostly through lower healthcare spending.
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The Treasury market’s coveted status as a safe haven is fading
New research by SIEPR Senior Fellow Hanno Lustig, showing that growing doubts that U.S. Treasuries are a "safe" asset, figures prominently in the Wall Street Journal's coverage of a surprise Trump administration move to try to lower the U.S. government's borrowing costs.
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A mandatory $1 coin report? Here’s why the government can’t focus
In a Washington Post essay, SIEPR Senior Fellow Daniel Ho explains how obsolete laws exacerbate government inefficiency and how his Stanford RegLab team is using AI to eliminate costly "policy sludge."
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How AI is helping states cut through decades of red tape
SIEPR Senior Fellow Daniel Ho and a Stanford team of researchers scanned 500 million words of state law to reveal the stunning growth of reporting requirements, and are now giving governments a tool to clean them up.
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At SIEPR, the Fed’s Philip Jefferson reflects on the central bank’s “delicate balancing act”
The Federal Reserve vice chair talks about the policy challenges of navigating economic shocks at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research.
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Fax and telegram? New York’s archaic requirements get an A.I. overhaul.
In The New York Times, pioneering AI research methods by SIEPR Senior Fellow Daniel Ho and his Stanford RegLab team are featured in a story about a New York State initiative to cut through red tape across government agencies.
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It failed in France. It would be a disaster in California.
Joshua Rauh, SIEPR senior fellow, argues in a New York Times op-ed against a California ballot initiative to levy a one-time tax on the state's resident billionaires.
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With millions expected to lose coverage, states look for new ways to prevent medical debt
Neale Mahoney, SIEPR director and a leading scholar on medical debt, discusses on the Tradeoffs podcast research into strategies for helping patients manage health care costs.
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Can’t pay medical bills? Trump officials suggest getting a loan
Neale Mahoney, SIEPR's Trione Director, tells the New York Times that a Trump administration proposal to allow patients to take out loans from health insurers to pay for their rising medical costs "seems to be hugely out of touch with where people are" given strained household budgets.
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The fired labor economist who couldn't get unemployment
SIEPR's Erika McEntarfer, former head of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, details her own failed attempt to file a claim in a NPR segment on the dysfunction in state-run unemployment insurance programs.
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The ‘assimilate or go home’ crowd could use a history lesson
A Bloomberg opinion columnist details the extensive research by SIEPR's Ran Abramitzky in challenging the latest political rhetoric around U.S. immigrants, including the claim that they don’t work hard, follow the law or integrate into American society.
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Partners in prime: The Fed and Treasury’s new relationship
SIEPR’s Darrell Duffie tells The Economist that, even if the Federal Reserve starts to play a smaller role in financial markets, the central bank will step in to avert a crisis. “But even with all guns blazing it can’t stop Treasury-market dysfunction. It can only make it less bad," Duffie said.
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How to protect the economy from the ghosts of 1979
Kevin Warsh, confirmed last week as Federal Reserve chair, is wise to reexamine the central bank's models and overall approach as stagflation risks grow, explains SIEPR Senior Fellow John Cochrane in The Washington Post.
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Why U.S. test scores are in a ‘generation-long decline’
The New York Times interviews Sean Reardon, a Stanford Graduate School of Education professor and SIEPR senior fellow, on his new research showing declines in student achievement began in 2013, long before the pandemic and after two decades of gains.
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The child care crisis: SIEPR shines a light on solutions
Sky-high child care costs are contributing to America’s affordability crisis. A recent SIEPR policy forum focused on policies for bringing down costs while ensuring quality care.
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The great hesitation
In a New York Times op-ed, SIEPR Senior Fellow Amit Seru warns that political dysfunction is seeping into American capitalism. Trump's erratic policies are the key reason, but Biden shares some blame, too.
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When the world stops syncing
On the first anniversary of President Trump's "Liberation Day" declaration, SIEPR's Steve Davis tells Politico Magazine that one potentially lasting consequence of the breakdown in global cooperation is that U.S. companies have fewer reasons to innovate.
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Pain at the pump: What spiking gas prices mean for consumers, the US economy
A new analysis by scholars at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research into the implications of higher gas bills is making waves. Here, two of the authors explain why.
