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Whether or not Hurricane Sandy had a connection to climate change, climate change will make future Hurricane Sandys more common, imposing enormous costs on cities.
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The recent deceleration in U.S. health-care costs appears to be at least partially structural, and not entirely due to a still-lackluster economy. That offers some hope that the slowdown will continue. Still, more needs to be done to encourage the trend.
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For a country that prides itself on a robust private sector, the U.S. lags behind many other nations in using the private sector to finance, build and operate infrastructure. From 1990 to 2006, for example, public-private partnerships financed five times as much transportation infrastructure in the U.K. as in the U.S. -- even though the U.S. economy is more than six times larger than that of the U.K.
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News that the White House will propose a new cost-of-living index in the budget it releases this week has brought joy to deficit scolds and consternation to defenders of Social Security.
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White House Budget Director Peter Orszag was poised to become the first member of Barack Obama’s Cabinet to leave, as early as this summer. Then came an appeal from the president insisting that he reconsider.
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Better-educated Americans increasingly live longer than everyone else, and children from higher-income families in the U.S. are getting more education than other people. These are two of the most disturbing trends in the U.S., and it’s entirely plausible that they are related.
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White House Budget Director Peter Orszag plans to leave President Barack Obama ’s Cabinet before the White House begins preparing its next budget, administration officials said.
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The idea that we should reform the way we handle allegations of medical malpractice is enjoying a new vogue.
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With economic growth still sluggish, efforts to rein in federal deficit spending should be delayed until the U.S. is better positioned to handle a contraction in government spending, according to Citigroup Inc.’s Peter Orszag.
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Losing momentum in the economic recovery, not rising inflation, is the biggest threat as the U.S. seeks to rebound from the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, according to Citigroup Inc.’s Peter Orszag.
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