AEI's J.D. Kleinke examines the magnitude, symbolism, and likely impacts of the accounting rule included in the Accountable Care Act to regulate the administrative costs and profits of the health insurance industry.

Some consumers and businesses might see a little extra cash this summer as a result of the 2010 health care law. The Kaiser Family Foundation recently reported an estimated $1.3 billion in rebates will be delivered from health insurers who spent more than the law allotted on administrative expenses and profits.

Few recognize just how troubled this government agency really is. When measured against the accounting system used by private mortgage insurers, the FHA is deeply insolvent, with a capital shortfall of tens of billions of dollars. If it were a private firm, state regulators would immediately shut it down. 

While markets are again correctly obsessing over Italy and Spain’s poor economic growth prospects, as reflected in markedly higher government bond yields for those two countries, they seem to have taken their eye off two upcoming political events that could usher in a new and more serious phase of the...

Portugal could avoid Greece's horrible fate if it were to draw the right lessons from the Greek experience.

Ever since its founding in 1948, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea has maintained an aggressive and bellicose international security posture. Today, fully two decades after the end of the Cold War, North Korea's external defense and security policies look arguably more extreme and anomalous than ever.

Even the most prominent critiques of teacher preparation typically seem to presume that teacher recruitment--whether it incorporates clinical preparation or what not--ought to be geared toward new college graduates gearing up for the same old jobs. There are smarter, better ways to approach the challenge at hand.

A potential European banking crisis would spill over to the US financial system, which has very close links to the European banking system.