Environmental Regulation and Electric System Reliability
The electric power sector in the United States faces a changing market environment, one that features reduced or flattened demand, low natural gas prices, new environmental regulations, and continued uncertainty about the future regulation of carbon.
Building a Strong Foundation for America's Health Care System
The ubiquitous access to once-unimaginable flows of information defines our age, and the everyday lives of millions of Americans, both in the workplace and at home. Yet, our health care system...has been paradoxically immune to the informational and networking revolutions transforming so much of American life.
Task Force on Ensuring Stable Natural Gas Markets
Natural gas is one of America’s most important energy resources. Comparatively clean burning and less carbon intensive than oil or coal, it is used as a fuel in a wide variety of applications throughout the economy and as a chemical feedstock in the industrial sector. Until recently, however, U.S. supplies of natural gas were also perceived as relatively limited.
Task Force on Ensuring Stable Natural Gas Markets – Executive Summary
The full Task Force report describes in detail the evolution of the U.S. natural gas market over the last half century and the specific causes behind more recent episodes of price variability in this market. Several points from that discussion are worth highlighting as part of this summary because they provide the context and rationale for Task Force findings and recommendations:
Committee for Economic Development: This Way Down to a Debt Crisis
Senior Vice President and Director of Research Dr. Joe Minarik of the Committee for Economic Development was the leading author of "This Way Down to a Debt Crisis." Minarik served as a member of the BPC's Debt Reduction Task Force. The BPC is proud to feature CED's report because it is instructive in thinking about how a debt crisis could occur.
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Strengthening Connections Between Transportation Investments and Economic Growth
This paper elaborates upon and deepens the ongoing policy discussion of relationships between investments in transportation infrastructure and the nation’s short- and long-term economic well-being.
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