At this AEI event, Baroness Emma Nicholson of the AMAR International Charitable Foundation will discuss the role of public-private partnerships in delivering essential services after a regime change.

Many on the political left decry the disappearance of defined-benefit pension plans from the private sector and strive mightily to maintain them for public-sector employees. The people who put defined-benefit plans and policies in place assumed there would always be someone able to pay for them.

The Cold War is an increasingly distant memory in American military minds, except in the minds of the arms control community, and in particular those who seek the elimination of nuclear weapons. Alas, our president is a member in good standing of this community—indeed, an organizer.So, too, it...

Comparing the American housing finance system to other countries makes clear that one thing remarkable and indeed unique in the world about American housing finance was the dominant and disproportionate role played by government-sponsored enterprises

The variety of international experience suggests that there is every reason to think broadly and openly about the possibilities for developing a better, post-GSE U.S. housing finance system for the future.

The ongoing sovereign debt crisis in Europe continues to weigh heavily oncredit markets and political systems throughout the developed world. 

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