Public Policy and World Affairs

The budget bill, signed on November 2nd, increases spending by $80 billion over a two-year period and is offset by an estimated equal…

On Thursday, October 15th, we sponsored the Ben Bernanke discussion, hosted by Town Hall Seattle. The event was held in Campion Hall on…

Broadly speaking, the program known as Social Security was initially proposed by Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Committee on Economic Security in June 1934. The…

In the wake of the 2008 global financial crisis, much of the developed world, including the United States, is flirting with over-indebtedness. Rather…

The federal banking system traces its origins to 1791, when Congress, at the urging of Alexander Hamilton, established the First Bank of the…