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Would boosting wages
actually increase hires?
Yahoo Finance: Peter Passell |
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National debt not enough
to warrant sequestration
Yahoo Finance: Joel Kurtzman |
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Sequester may cost lives
as it delays medical R&D
OP-ED: Margaret Anderson |
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A Matter of Degrees: The Prosperity of Educational Attainment on Regional Economic
Ross DeVol, I-Ling Shen, Armen Bedroussian and Nan Zhang |
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Unleashing the Power of the Bio-Economy
The United States could replace 20 percent of petrochemical consumption with bio-based products over the next decade -- while creating jobs and capturing a large share of the global renewable chemical market. The key is acting soon, before the current technological and agricultural edge is lost to other nations. Among products made with biochemicals are disposable tableware, printer ink and skin-care lotions, along with numerous compounds for industrial use.
To generate ideas for spurring the industrial side of biotechnology, the Milken Institute, in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, convened experts from the public and private sectors in a Financial Innovations Lab -- the Institute's signature miniature think-tanks for generating solutions to specific challenges.
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Will JOBS Act leave the crowd behind? 
Daniel Gorfine and Ben Miller
Yahoo! Finance |
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'Diaspora bonds' can help expand global economy
Foreign Policy: Peter Passell
foreignpolicy.com |
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Program to cut emissions is flawed but fixable
U.S. News: Peter Passell
usnews.com |
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Protect Medical Research from Automatic Budget Cut
Need Cures? Who Ya Gonna Call?
Margaret Anderson
Huffington Post |
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Should Big Banks Be Broken Up? A Debate
Simon Johnson, Harvey Rosenblum, Phillip Swagel, and Peter Wallison debate these issues and related questions. |
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Trading Losses: A Little Perspective on a Large Problem
James R. Barth and Donald McCarthy |
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Personal videos illustrate urgency of faster cures
TIME=LIVES - Your Stories |
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Contra Costa County: A Blueprint for Growth
Can Contra Costa County rival the Silicon Valley?
Armen Bedroussian, Kevin Klowden, and Haoran Zhu with I-Ling Shen |
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MIKE MILKEN: WSJ OP-ED
Investing in science, reaping rewards
Mike Milken
The Wall Street Journal |
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TIMEEQUALSLIVES.ORG
Personal videos illustrate urgency of faster cures |
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5 Non-Partisan Job Creation Ideas That Could Actually Work
5 non-partisan job creation ideas
Ross C. DeVol
theatlantic.com |
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Appetite for technology makes us fat, study say
Waistlines of the World: The Effect of Information and Communications Technology on Obesity
Anusuya Chatterjee and Ross C. DeVol |
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Egypt Needs a Budget Fix
Egypt has a shot at the sort of prosperity enjoyed by the Asian tigers. But this will require both structural reforms and a cultural shift.
Peter Passell and Robert Hahn
U.S. News & World Report |
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Heart of TV biz leaves L.A. to grab tax breaks
Just two of 23 new one-hour TV dramas will be shot in L.A. County, as producers seek tax credits elsewhere. Crews and Hollywood-related businesses struggle. |
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Should leaders still seek "magic 8" percent growth?
Tong (Cindy) Li
Yahoo! Finance: The Exchange |
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EMU -- Is it time to drop the M?
Keith Savard |
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Prices, not policies, alter U.S. energy landscape
Joel Kurtzman: WSJ Opinion |
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The U.S. Housing Market in 2014:
How Much Financing Is Needed, and Who Will Supply It
In our latest Current Views, Institute experts James R. Barth and Tong (Cindy) Li, along with Daniel E. Nolle, a senior financial economist at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, look at the future of housing finance, and explain why expanded private lending will need to be part of it. |
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Let's make financial regulators work for us
In this RealClearMarkets.com editorial feature by James Barth, Gerard Caprio Jr. and Ross Levine, the authors argue that regulators are subject to home-crowd bias in favor of the institutions they're supposed to oversee. A solution could be in creating an independent watchdog, a "Sentinel," to keep a close eye on regulators. They discuss this in detail in their book "Guardians of Finance: Making Regulators Work for Us", excerpted in the Milken Institute Review. |
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A promising pilot to help housing
In an editorial feature in the Wall Street Journal, "It’s Better to Rent Than to Foreclose," Institute senior fellows James Barth and Peter Passell praise a new program that could save millions of American families from losing their homes. It could also help both banks and neighborhoods. So, what's in the way of a national rollout? |
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