Plus some concerning trends for U.S. financial regulation and new podcast episodes on important economic issues.
What’s in store for education policy this year With the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, controversies around angry school board meetings, and the upcoming midterm elections, the United States is in for an eventful year in education policy. Scholars from the Brown Center on Education Policy identify the stories they’ll be following in 2022. Read more |
Who should regulate: Chairs or majorities of the board In the world of financial regulation, an advantage of the board structure is encouraging consensus-driven policy subject to majority rule, while an advantage of a single, long-term agency head is achieving politically difficult regulatory outcomes. Aaron Klein writes that a careful examination of recent trends shows trouble on the horizon for regulators of all shapes and sizes. Read more |
What Merrick Garland said about Jan. 6 “In the end, this speech addressed some issues usefully, detailed a coherent and attractive vision of the department’s attitude towards democracy protection—and left a lot of questions unanswered. Some of these questions probably cannot responsibly be answered. But others can and should,” argue Quinta Jurecic, Andrew Kent, and Benjamin Wittes about U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland’s speech this week. Read on Lawfare |
Econ podcasts to listen to this weekend The top economic issues in 2022. How is the U.S. economy performing? What is the current outlook on inflation? David Wessel joins the Brookings Cafeteria podcast to answer these questions and more. Jan. 6 and the U.S. economy. Much of the conversation on the one-year anniversary of the Jan. 6 insurrection has focused on the health of U.S. democracy, but the incident also had economic impacts that should not be overlooked. Wendy Edelberg discusses on a new episode of the Marketplace podcast. |
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