2+ week, 5+ day ago   (220+ words) At a recent hearing of the Senate Finance Committee on “Exploring Process Approaches for Addressing Social Security Solvency,” Ranking Member Senator Wyden said the following in his opening statement: Senator Wyden appears to be referencing Senator Whitehouse’s April 2023 bill, the…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (290+ words) A recently released memo signed by Deputy Secretary Feinberg on “Supplier Cost and Pricing Transparency” may be the worst and most damaging piece of defense acquisition and industrial policy written in the last 50 years. It essentially returns defense contracting to…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago   (362+ words) Finally, social media platforms have expressive First Amendment rights to curate, organize, display, and serve lawful third-party content to users as “expressive products,” as the Court recognized in Moody v. NetChoice. Users and platforms thus both have First Amendment interests....

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (419+ words) In The Sun Also Rises, when one of Hemmingway’s characters was asked how he went bankrupt, he replied “first gradually and then suddenly”. As 30-year US bond yields climb to their highest level since 2007 in response to the country’s unsustainable…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (267+ words) Our latest estimate for Operation Epic Fury is $38.6 billion. Table 1 shows the cost drivers by category, along with an estimate for Operation Southern Spear and a lump-sum amount for repair of bases and facilities in the Middle East. To lend…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (315+ words) In a few weeks, Americans across the country will mark the nation’s 250th birthday. A time of celebration, yes, but also a time to reflect on the founders’ contributions and how their work informs us today. To this end, AEI inaugurated…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago   (79+ words) The smartphone is a meticulously engineered security architecture, and the European Commission's Draft Measures under the Digital Markets Act now threaten its integrity. BY Shane Tews ON 1 Jun 26 Shane is joined by Aubrey Wilson to discuss whether AI can be…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago   (288+ words) I am thrilled to announce that AEI Senior Fellow and health economist Dr. Benedic Ippolito has been appointed to the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC). He will bring this expertise and a broad knowledge of the Medicare program to his…...

3+ mon, 4+ week ago   (561+ words) That raises three practical questions: What is regulatory independence? Does it matter? And if it weakens, what else should change? This is why debates over whether a president can fire commissioners miss the larger point. Removal protections are only one…...

5+ mon, 5+ day ago   (197+ words) There are, however, two troubling cases: The administration has also installed at least one officer with a conspicuous experience deficit in a legally critical role, and elevated another whose advancement pattern looks less like career development and more like political…...