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Getting the Job Done Right: Essential Skills for Regulatory Oversight J. W. Verret \| March 01, 2012 Several key debates this year will focus on the economic impact of federal regulations. The Mercatus Center at George Mason University is pleased to offer a series of courses designed to help congressional staff better understand the regulatory process. The first course uses examples from newly-minted financial markets regulations to review: -The stages involved in developing and finalizing a regulation -How to find and use information about a regulation -The best tools to help policy makers make the case for or against a change in regulation…	Behind the Numbers: Understanding the President's FY 2013 Budget Submission to Congress Jason J. Fichtner \| February 23, 2012 In this video from the Mercatus Center's Capitol Hill Campus program, Dr. Jason Fichtner addresses the following questions: -How do we assess the president's fiscal year 2013 budget proposal to Congress? -Are there really spending cuts? -Do we have extra money to spend from ending the war in Iraq? -How does the president suggest Congress cuts $1.2 trillion required by the sequester? -Are your taxes going to increase next year? -Will the health care bill actually save money?
Creating a Shovel-Ready Economy: Lessons from the Recovery Act Garett Jones \| January 11, 2012 In this presentation, Mercatus Senior Scholar Garett Jones provides a useful framework for promoting economic growth in 2012.	Benefits, Costs, and Other Important Stuff - Demystifying Regulatory Analysis Jerry Ellig \| November 09, 2011 Jerry Ellig explains the economic concepts behind the basic buzzwords of regulatory analysis—such as "benefits," "costs," "market failure," and "cost-effectiveness"—and why they matter. Concepts are illustrated through examples from actual regulatory analyses conducted by federal agencies and university scholars.
A Sustainable Approach to Entitlement Reform Charles Blahous, Jason J. Fichtner, Alice M. Rivlin, Robert Reischauer \| October 25, 2011 Any credible plan to significantly improve the nation's fiscal outlook must address the greatest drivers of future debt: Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security. But while the need for entitlement reform is no longer in question, policy makers are far from consensus on how, or even when, to begin.	Changing the Budget Process to Promote Fiscal Responsibility Veronique de Rugy, David M. Primo \| October 06, 2011 Many point to the past months' rancorous debates and subsequent credit downgrade as an indication the federal budget process is "broken." But if its principle aim is to control spending, has it ever really worked?

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Bruce Yandle

Bruce Yandle is a distinguished adjunct professor of economics with the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. His primary research interests are public choice, regulation, and free market environmentalism. He is dean emeritus of the Clemson College of Business and Behavioral Sciences.

Garett Jones

Garett Jones is a senior scholar at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. His primary research interests include macroeconomics, monetary economics, and the microfoundations of economic growth.

Veronique de Rugy

Veronique de Rugy is a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. Her primary research interests include the federal budget, homeland security, taxation, tax competition, and financial privacy issues.

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Keith Hall discusses Unemployment at Capitol Hill Campus

Keith Hall | February 19, 2013

Keith Hall discusses unemployment, or what he refers to as joblessness.

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Capitol Hill Campus: The Pathology of Privilege: The Consequences of Government Favoritism

Matthew Mitchell | May 14, 2013

Despite the ideological miles that separate them, activists in the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street movements agree on one thing: both condemn the recent bailouts of wealthy and well-connected banks. But when it comes to government-granted privileges to particular firms or industries the bailouts were just the tip of the iceberg.

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Getting the Job Done Right: Essential Skills for Regulatory Oversight J. W. Verret \| March 01, 2012 Several key debates this year will focus on the economic impact of federal regulations. The Mercatus Center at George Mason University is pleased to offer a series of courses designed to help congressional staff better understand the regulatory process. The first course uses examples from newly-minted financial markets regulations to review: -The stages involved in developing and finalizing a regulation -How to find and use information about a regulation -The best tools to help policy makers make the case for or against a change in regulation…	Behind the Numbers: Understanding the President's FY 2013 Budget Submission to Congress Jason J. Fichtner \| February 23, 2012 In this video from the Mercatus Center's Capitol Hill Campus program, Dr. Jason Fichtner addresses the following questions: -How do we assess the president's fiscal year 2013 budget proposal to Congress? -Are there really spending cuts? -Do we have extra money to spend from ending the war in Iraq? -How does the president suggest Congress cuts $1.2 trillion required by the sequester? -Are your taxes going to increase next year? -Will the health care bill actually save money?
Creating a Shovel-Ready Economy: Lessons from the Recovery Act Garett Jones \| January 11, 2012 In this presentation, Mercatus Senior Scholar Garett Jones provides a useful framework for promoting economic growth in 2012.	Benefits, Costs, and Other Important Stuff - Demystifying Regulatory Analysis Jerry Ellig \| November 09, 2011 Jerry Ellig explains the economic concepts behind the basic buzzwords of regulatory analysis—such as "benefits," "costs," "market failure," and "cost-effectiveness"—and why they matter. Concepts are illustrated through examples from actual regulatory analyses conducted by federal agencies and university scholars.
A Sustainable Approach to Entitlement Reform Charles Blahous, Jason J. Fichtner, Alice M. Rivlin, Robert Reischauer \| October 25, 2011 Any credible plan to significantly improve the nation's fiscal outlook must address the greatest drivers of future debt: Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security. But while the need for entitlement reform is no longer in question, policy makers are far from consensus on how, or even when, to begin.	Changing the Budget Process to Promote Fiscal Responsibility Veronique de Rugy, David M. Primo \| October 06, 2011 Many point to the past months' rancorous debates and subsequent credit downgrade as an indication the federal budget process is "broken." But if its principle aim is to control spending, has it ever really worked?