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The U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation reads the Internet so that you don’t have to, sharing a short list of curated blog posts for your Friday reading.
Library Article
June 11, 2013
Is government action a game changer for corporate America?
Blog Post
June 7, 2013
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation reads the Internet so that you don’t have to, sharing a short list of curated blog posts for your Friday reading.
Blog Post
April 30, 2013

A critique of Carmen Reinhart and Ken Rogoff's paper examining debt's effect on growth dominated the economic news over the last week. Reinhart and Rogoff's 2010 offering, Growth in a Time of Debt, compiled lots of data on debt-to-GDP ratios from nations around the globe and found that higher debt ratios, especially those at 90% or above, tended to be associated with slower growth.

Blog Post
April 16, 2013
Washington is in a state of regulatory hyperdrive, can we change the course?
Blog Post
April 5, 2013
Why has America’s economy recovery been so weak?
Blog Post
March 13, 2013
What is the effect of technology on the economy?
Blog Post
February 28, 2013
Rather than get caught up in today’s “government by crisis,” we need to step back and ask a few critical questions about public spending.
Blog Post
February 13, 2013
With nowhere to go but up, we take a look at emerging innovation and opportunities in the Motor City.
Blog Post
February 1, 2013
GDP. Spending. Deficits.
Blog Post
January 30, 2013
Healthcare spending and the nation's debt
Library Article
December 13, 2012
The United States is just weeks away from a $7 trillion fiscal cliff
Blog Post
December 6, 2012
Swimming in the Murky Waters of the Fiscal Cliff
Blog Post
October 16, 2012
Sluggish economic growth and a one-button solution
Blog Post
October 2, 2012
How strong should the economy be?
Blog Post
September 13, 2012
Is the United States stuck in a permanent rut or just a temporary downturn?
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September 6, 2012
Are some scholars right? Are America’s best economic days behind us?
Blog Post
August 7, 2012
Household debt and retirement savings: Are you prepared to leave the workforce?
Blog Post
July 26, 2012
The fate of Europe has a significant impact on how readily some U.S. businesses will be able to secure credit now and in the future.
Blog Post
June 19, 2012
America’s real debt burden totals over $50 trillion. That, according to Deloitte, is one of many untold stories about our government’s liabilities.
Blog Post
March 5, 2012

What do you get when you ask 469 experts from industry, government, academia, and civil society to think up their worst dystopian nightmares?  You get the World Economic Forum's list of the top fifty global risks.  These seeds of disaster lie in wait just under the surface, nurtured by a lack of safeguards in our increasingly interconnected world.  Excited yet?  You should be, because these are the risks that may temper tomorrow's rewards.

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