Brian Seasholes
Brian Seasholes is an expert on wide variety of issues related to wildlife, land-use, and property rights. His areas of expertise include efforts to create property rights to wildlife in …
Alexandra Liddy Bourne
Sandy Liddy Bourne currently serves as vice president for policy and strategy for The Heartland Institute, a national nonprofit research organization based in Chicago. Previously she served as Director of …
Environment Experts
Alexandra Liddy BourneSandy Liddy Bourne currently serves as vice president for policy and strategy for The Heartland Institute, a national nonprofit research organization based in Chicago. Brian SeasholesBrian Seasholes …
Can Cancun Climate Ties Bind?
DALLAS – On the heels of Climategate, the discovery of numerous mistakes in the report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the failure to meet the $100 billion in commitments to developing countries to adapt to climate change and, worse, no consensus to extend the Kyoto Protocol, expectations for this week's United Nations climate summit in Cancun are very low, according to National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA) Senior Fellow H. Sterling Burnett.
In Memoriam: Jimmie Thompson, 1930-2010
Jimmie Thompson, a long-time supporter of the NCPA, passed away last Friday. Jimmie served as a member of the NCPA Board of Directors for many years and was generous with …
Retirement Experts
Andrew J. Rettenmaier, Ph.D.Andrew J. Rettenmaier, Ph.D. is an NCPA senior fellow and a Research Associate at the Private Enterprise Research Center at Texas A&M University. Thomas R. Saving, Ph.D.Dr. …
Make Taxes Visible
Here is an idea that should receive support from just about everyone: the taxpayer savings account (TSA). Instead of the current withholding system, amounts withheld from your paycheck would go into a segregated account that you own. Interest that accumulates would be yours to keep, instead of accruing to your employer or the government.
In Memoriam: Jimmie Thompson, 1930-2010
Jimmie Thompson, a long-time supporter of the NCPA, passed away last Friday. Jimmie served as a member of the NCPA Board of Directors for many years and was generous with …
What the Election Means
The Wall Street Journal – At the end of 2007 America began its economic decline. It started in the Bush administration, continued in the Obama administration, and is likely to be with us many months or even years longer. The federal deficit soared to $1.3 million from $161 billion in 2007. Unemployment in the same period rose to 9.6 percent from 5 percent.
What the Election Means
The Wall Street Journal – At the end of 2007 America began its economic decline. It started in the Bush administration, continued in the Obama administration, and is likely to be with us many months or even years longer. The federal deficit soared to $1.3 million from $161 billion in 2007. Unemployment in the same period rose to 9.6 percent from 5 percent.
Patients Should Pay Their Own Bills
Investor's Business Daily: Covers Devon Herrick's report on why health costs continue to rise.
The Federal Reserve's Quantitative Easing: Questions and Answers
Recently, the Federal Reserve announced plans to resume monetary easing by purchasing $600 billion in U.S. Treasury bonds by June 2011. Bonds purchases give the sellers additional funds in their banks, which adds to banks' reserves and lending ability. The Fed's goal is to expand money and credit and thereby stimulate the economy.
NCPA Study: Government Unfunded Liability Cut in Half by Health Reform
DALLAS, TX – The health reform bill enacted last spring reduces Medicare's unfunded liability by $53 trillion, cutting in half the nation's long-term entitlement debt, according to a new study from the National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA).
Texas Considers Withdrawing from Medicaid
Heath Care News– A closer look at Medicaid changes at the state level from Dr. Herrick
Texas Considers Withdrawing from Medicaid
Heath Care News– A closer look at Medicaid changes at the state level from Dr. Herrick
Lame-Duck Caution
DALLAS – Fearing a lame-duck Congress might attempt to ram through costly and ineffective environmental legislation, action on four environmental initiatives is critical both to improve the U.S. economy and protect the environment, according to NCPA Senior Fellow H. Sterling Burnett.
Medicare Trustees Reports 2010 and 2009: What a Difference a Year Makes
The new federal health care law – the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (or ACA) – uses cuts in Medicare to fund additional federal health care spending on nonseniors. The cuts come from reducing the growth in physicians' Medicare reimbursements using the existing sustainable growth rate (SGR) system and reducing future Medicare payment updates for hospitals and other nonphysician services by the economy-wide increase in productivity.
Why Health Costs Are Still Rising
Prices for medical services have been rising faster than prices of other goods and services for as long as anyone can remember. But not all health care prices are rising. Although health care inflation is robust for those services paid by third-party insurance, prices are rising only moderately for services patients buy directly.
'Governments Don't Create Jobs; Only the Private Sector Creates Jobs.' Really?
FORBES.com – Robert McTeer's commentary on misconceptions about government's role in job creation.
'Governments Don't Create Jobs; Only the Private Sector Creates Jobs.' Really?
FORBES.com – Robert McTeer's commentary on misconceptions about government's role in job creation.
Nov 16, 2010
NCPA Senior Fellow H. Sterling Burnett, Ph.D. will speak to Praxis, Hillsdale College’s economics club, in Hillsdale, Michigan. Dr. Burnett’s topic will be The Politics and Economics of Cap-and-Trade.
Stimulus Plan Hits Risk-Wary Seniors
AARP Bulletin: Senior Policy analyst Pamela Villarreal on dropping interest rates and the impact on seniors' investments.
Letter to Bernanke: Stop QE2
Seeking Alpha – More from Dr. McTeer on why he supports the Fed's latest fiscal moves.
Bob McTeer – QE2
CNBC: Bob McTeer defended the Fed's bond-buying policy on CNBC's Kudlow
Rendell Imposes Lame-Duck Natural Gas Moratorium
Lame duck Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell (D) has placed a moratorium on new natural gas leases on state forests lands. Rendell had previously supported new natural gas leases, but he decided to impose the moratorium after the state legislature declined to implement a hefty new severance tax that he supported.