Gerard Alexander

At the February 2010 Bradley Lecture, AEI visiting scholar Gerard Alexander will examine why liberal intellectual self-assurance has yet to be undermined by numerous policy failures since the 1960s, why today's society is short on mechanisms that might convey those lessons--even from a few decades ago, and why pervasive dismissal of conservative social knowledge remains a powerful obstacle to more sophisticated policy debates. [READ MORE]

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Experts will discuss whether the euro will survive the brewing Greek economic crisis in the aftermath of the worst postwar global economic recession, and the implications of the current economic difficulties in Spain, Ireland, and Portugal for the survival of the eurozone in its present form. Panelists include AEI's John H. Makin and Desmond Lachman, University of Maryland's Carmen M. Reinhart, and others. [READ MORE]

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At the luncheon press briefing that follows two closed sessions, members of the Shadow Financial Regulatory Committee, a group of publicly recognized independent experts on the financial services industry including AEI visiting scholar Charles W. Calomiris, will issue one or more statements and answer questions relating to the topics discussed. [READ MORE]

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Why a Public Plan Is Unnecessary to Stimulate Competition
By Christopher J. Conover, Thomas P. Miller
AEI working paper, January 2010

Duke University’s Christopher J. Conover and AEI resident fellow Thomas P. Miller challenge the claim that a public option is necessary to stimulate competition in the health insurance market. Miller and Conover argue that maintaining and strengthening the existing competition in private insurance markets is a far more reliable strategy for achieving quality health care at an affordable cost than creating a dominant public plan that could undermine such competition and its beneficial effects. [READ MORE]

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AEI visiting scholar Allan H. Meltzer (Carnegie Mellon University) argues that the exit strategy outlined by Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke to prevent future inflation will not work and suggests instead that the Fed announce a policy for preventing inflation that reduces the enormous stock of excess reserves, such as by selling securities. [READ MORE]

James Q. Wilson, a member of AEI's Council of Academic Advisers, remarks that the plan to put five terrorists on trial in Manhattan has raised profound questions, such as why New York City and law enforcement agencies there should bear the burden of a trial foisted on them by U.S. attorney general Eric Holder. [READ MORE]

The President's Bank Reforms Don't Add Up
By Peter J. Wallison
Wall Street Journal, January 24, 2010

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AEI's Peter J. Wallison argues that President Barack Obama's financial reform proposals may be good populist politics but are not responsible policy. According to Wallison, the solution to long-term problems in the banking industry is not to narrow the activities of bank holding companies, but to broaden them. [READ MORE]

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(Basic Books, May 2010)

Many Americans have forgotten the evils of twentieth-century socialism and the predations of America’s own Great Society welfare-state programs. But as AEI president Arthur C. Brooks reveals in The Battle, the forces for socialism are back with a vengeance. They have the full arsenal of government, money and power, and they are using our economic insecurity to introduce breathtaking increases in the reach of the state. They are playing for keeps, and if they win, America will be changed forever--not just economically, but culturally. [READ MORE]

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