Report April 2010

The April Report highlights a brief by Institute scholars that finds that social sector investment generates more jobs than infrastructure spending or investing in green energy. The issue also includes a summary of our latest Strategic Analysis, which concerns the various policy actions required to emerge from the current recession.

NEW PUBLIC POLICY BRIEF

• Why President Obama Should Care about “Care”: An Effective and Equitable Investment Strategy for Job Creation

NEW STRATEGIC ANALYSIS

• Getting Out of the Recession?

NEW PUBLIC POLICY BRIEFS

• No Going Back: Why We Cannot Resolve Glass-Steagall’s Segregation of Banking and Finance
• The Trouble with Pensions: Toward an Alternative Public Policy to Support Retirement
• Toward True Health Care Reform: More Care, Less Insurance

NEW POLICY NOTE

• Observations on the Problem of “Too Big to Fail/Save/Resolve”

NEW WORKING PAPERS

• The Euro and Its Guardian of Stability: The Fiction and Reality of the 10th Anniversary Blast
• The Global Crisis and the Future of the Dollar: Toward Bretton Woods III?
• Is Reregulation of the Financial System an Oxymoron?
• Is This the Minsky Moment for Reform of Financial Regulation?
• The Global Financial Crisis and the Shift to Shadow Banking
• Decomposition of the Black-White Wage Differential in the Physician Market
• Recent Trends in Household Wealth in the United States: Rising Debt and the Middle-Class Squeeze—An Update to 2007

INSTITUTE NEWS

Upcoming Events

• The 19th Annual Hyman P. Minsky Conference on the State of the US and World Economies, April 14–16, 2010
• The Hyman P. Minsky Summer Seminar, June 19–29, 2010

PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS

• Publications and Presentations by Levy Institute Scholars
• Recent Levy Institute Publications