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The Housing Market 'Reset' And The Future Of American Housing Policy, Alan Mallach
The Housing Market 'Reset' And The Future Of American Housing Policy, Alan Mallach
Brookings Scholar Lecture Series
The foreclosure crisis and the collapse in housing prices that have engulfed much of the United States are fundamentally changing the ways in which the American housing market works, challenging many of the assumptions about the role of housing and the housing market that we have held for the past decades. In my lecture, I will discuss how and why those changes are taking place and how they vary across the United States and explore what they mean for American housing policy in the future, and how they are making us reconsider how we think about home ownership, rental housing, …
Deficits And Disaster, Ron Haskins
Deficits And Disaster, Ron Haskins
Brookings Scholar Lecture Series
The nation’s deficit path is unsustainable. The public debt is likely to increase by $1 trillion per year until 2020, and then increase at an ever increasing rate after that. Far from helping the nation address its exploding deficit, the last two administrations and every congress since 2000 have taken actions that have intensified the problem. It is time for Americans to face the high probability that due most fundamentally to their continuing demand for high spending and low taxes, sometime in the next decade or so one or more catastrophes will strike America. This presentation will lay out the …
Innovation And Entrepreneurship: The New Drift In Federal Policy, Mark Muro
Innovation And Entrepreneurship: The New Drift In Federal Policy, Mark Muro
Brookings Scholar Lecture Series
Several defining characteristics will shape the post‐Great Recession economy:The “next” economy will be export‐oriented, lower‐carbon, and innovation‐fueled The next economy will also be metropolitan‐led:Which means regions belong at the center of national innovation and entrepreneurship policy. There is no single American economy, but a network of 366 metropolitan economies that compete with other economic regions around the world
Reclaiming Prosperity: Repositioning Southern Nevada For The Next Economy, Bruce Katz
Reclaiming Prosperity: Repositioning Southern Nevada For The Next Economy, Bruce Katz
Brookings Scholar Lecture Series
The outlines of the next American economy are coming into focus, yet the future remains uncertain in Southern Nevada as America's newest metropolis labors through a major recession. It is time therefore to get back on track and begin laying the foundation for a new and more durable kind of growth in metropolitan Las Vegas and across the Intermountain West. To help with that, urban visionary Bruce Katz advanced a powerful depiction of the next American economy in a major UNLV lecture and articulated a bold agenda for helping Las Vegas reclaim prosperity in the new era.
Las Vegas As The American Milan: Economic Growth In The World Economy, Robert E. Lang
Las Vegas As The American Milan: Economic Growth In The World Economy, Robert E. Lang
Brookings Scholar Lecture Series
Milan as a Metaphor:
- Milan Makes Stuff and is a Tech City
- Milan’s Specialty as a World City is Design and Trade
- Milan is Not a Museum—Unlike Some Other Italian Cities that have Inspired Las Vegas such as Venice and Florence
- Design Needs Flair—We Got Plenty of That and it Plays to a Key Strength
The Next Las Vegas Boom, Robert E. Lang
The Next Las Vegas Boom, Robert E. Lang
Brookings Scholar Lecture Series
The Great Recession—Where are We Now?
- U.S. Employment
- U.S. GDP by Type
- U.S. Household Net Worth
- U.S Retail Sales