BERKELEY – As the first wave of America’s baby boomers begins to retire, the retirement system is revealing its flaws. More than half of all…

BERKELEY – Over the last five years, the growth of health-care spending in the United States has slowed dramatically – to the lowest rate in…

BERKELEY – US President Barack Obama has called for additional revenue as part of a balanced plan to reduce future budget deficits. But he i…

BERKELEY – The United States is confronting another round of cuts in federal government spending, this time threatening to trim at least 0.5…

BERKELEY – The United States continues to recover from its deepest economic slump since the Great Depression, but the pace of recovery remai…

BERKELEY – Where is America’s economy headed in 2013? Will the recovery continue at its frustratingly slow pace? Or will it accelerate as th…

BERKELEY – America’s recent presidential election answered the question of whether an increase in revenues will be part of the country’s lon…

BERKELEY – The latest data on employment in the United States confirm that the American economy continues to recover from the Great Recessio…

BERKELEY – The United States is beset by four deficits: a fiscal deficit, a jobs deficit, a deficit in public investment, and an opportunity…

BERKELEY – In a rare act of bipartisanship, the United States Congress recently passed legislation to encourage more inward foreign direct i…

BERKELEY – The United States has just completed its third year of economic recovery, but the unemployment rate remains above 8%, and there a…

BERKELEY – Fiscal profligacy did not cause the sovereign-debt crisis engulfing Europe, and fiscal austerity will not solve it. On the contra…

BERKELEY – The United States now has the highest statutory corporate-income tax rate among developed countries. Even after various deduction…

BERKELEY – At a recent conference in Washington, DC, former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers said that US policymakers should focus on produ…

BERKELEY – As countries around the world struggle to lay the foundations for stronger sustainable growth in the future, they would do well t…

BERKELEY – This year began with a series of reports providing tantalizing evidence that economic recovery in the United States is strengthen…

NEW YORK -- In weeks and years past, each of us argued that Russia was pursuing a policy of regime change toward Georgia and its pro-Western…