Archive: 2015

November 2, 2015 The Marshall J. Seidman Lecture in Health Policy at Harvard University Thank you. I am truly honored to be presenting the 15th annual Marshall J. Seidman Lecture, following in the steps of a number of my mentors and friends. I…

October 13, 2015 Luncheon Speech, Annual Meeting of the National Association for Business EconomicsThe Brookings Institution Thank you. I am delighted to be back at NABE. My goal today is to make the case for a set of changes to federal budget…

October 11, 2015 We Should Avoid Across-the-Board Cuts to Social Security and Medicare(published in The Washington Post in slightly edited form) Benefits for older Americans—especially through Social Security and Medicare—account for the largest…

September 17, 2015 Keynote Speech, Second Annual Conference of the MIT Center for Finance and PolicyThe Brookings Institution Thank you. I am delighted that the MIT Center for Finance and Policy has attracted such terrific researchers and is…