Four ways to speed up productivity growth (Anna Malinovskaya, Louise Sheiner, Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2016/09/20/four-ways-to-speed-up-productivity-growth/

Hutchins Roundup: Fiscal consolidations, health spending, and more (Anna Malinovskaya, Louise Sheiner, Brookings)

Studies in this week’s Hutchins Roundup find that attempts by advanced economies to reduce debt after the global financial crisis contributed to a permanent decline in their GDP, the global financial crisis increased health care spending, and more.

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/up-front/posts/2016/07/07-hutchins-roundup

Keeping the U.S. Fiscal Ship afloat (Louise Sheiner, David Wessel, Adrianna Pita, Brookings)

"We sought out to make this game because we think that the national debt is an important issue that budget experts talk about all the time but it is very hard for the general public to really understand, so we thought to do it in a way that is more entertaining and more fun.”— Louise Sheiner

http://www.brookings.edu/research/podcasts/2016/05/keeping-us-fiscal-ship-afloat

Hutchins Roundup: Unemployment benefits, total factor productivity, and more (Anna Malinovskaya, Louise Sheiner, Brookings)

Studies in this week’s Hutchins Roundup find that an increase in the duration of unemployment benefits had little effect on the unemployment rate, changes in the structure of the economy have severed productivity trends from the business cycle, and more.

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/up-front/posts/2016/04/14-hutchins-roundup