Laura Tyson, a former chair of the US President's Council of Economic Advisers, is a professor at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Commentaries by Laura Tyson
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America’s Healthy Path to Fiscal Health
BERKELEY – Over the last five years, the growth of health-care spending in the United States has slowed dramatically – to the lowest rate in…
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Why Give Corporations a Tax Break?
BERKELEY – US President Barack Obama has called for additional revenue as part of a balanced plan to reduce future budget deficits. But he i…
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America’s Sequestered Recovery
BERKELEY – The United States is confronting another round of cuts in federal government spending, this time threatening to trim at least 0.5…
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Meeting America’s Growth Challenge
BERKELEY – The United States continues to recover from its deepest economic slump since the Great Depression, but the pace of recovery remai…
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Fiscal Challenges and Fiscal Follies
BERKELEY – Where is America’s economy headed in 2013? Will the recovery continue at its frustratingly slow pace? Or will it accelerate as th…
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Inside America’s Tax Battle
BERKELEY – America’s recent presidential election answered the question of whether an increase in revenues will be part of the country’s lon…
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Closing America’s Jobs Deficit
BERKELEY – The latest data on employment in the United States confirm that the American economy continues to recover from the Great Recessio…
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Mitt Romney and America’s Four Deficits
BERKELEY – The United States is beset by four deficits: a fiscal deficit, a jobs deficit, a deficit in public investment, and an opportunity…
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The Benefits of Chinese FDI
BERKELEY – In a rare act of bipartisanship, the United States Congress recently passed legislation to encourage more inward foreign direct i…
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Obama versus Romney on Jobs
BERKELEY – The United States has just completed its third year of economic recovery, but the unemployment rate remains above 8%, and there a…
America’s Healthy Path to Fiscal Health
Chuck Mcormick: health spending is down for one reason . It is too expensive to use. The co pays are too much so people do not bother, which makes eventual health cost more. Spending is down , but people are broke an…
America’s Healthy Path to Fiscal Health
Frank O'Callaghan: There is a horrific silence on the subject of health in the US. The debate centers on the money rather than on health issue. Is there any purpose to policy other than enrichment of insurance compan…