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GGRF Deployment by USEPA: a BIG Challenge in U.S. Fiscal Federalism
NEMWI Releases Report on Deploying Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund Capital Beginning in 1977, the Northeast-Midwest Institute has...

Tom Cochran
Nov 1, 20232 min read
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Bernanke's Strong Macro-econ 101 case for State & Local Fiscal Aid
Topping even Jay Powell in the clarity sweepstakes and writing in the Op-Ed section of today's New York Times, former two-term Fed...

Tom Cochran
Jul 15, 20202 min read
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The State & Local Fiscal Tsunami Rolls In, Drowning Front Line Governments in Red Ink
The Urban Institute's Tax Policy Center has just released its Monthly State Tax Revenue Highlights covering state revenue trends in the...

Tom Cochran
Jul 2, 20201 min read
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And Now the House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis Weighs In
And I do mean WEIGHS in (get it? nudge, nudge, wink, wink) with the release of its 538-page majority staff report plan to for "a Clean...

Tom Cochran
Jul 1, 20201 min read
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Paper on lessons from the Great Recession by Oates and Van Horn published by Atlanta Fed
This excellent new paper by former Assistant Secretary of Labor, Jane Oates, and Rutgers-based Workforce Development policy maven, Carl...
Tom Cochran
Jun 18, 20201 min read
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Kaden Joins Cochran in proposing new regional action agenda-setting process and conference
While the presidential election and the COVID-19 pandemic have dominated the news cycle for months, a story with deep long-term regional...
Tom Cochran
Jun 10, 20203 min read
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Federal Reserve Board's Municipal Liquidity Facility
Further to the issues involving the FRB’s Municipal Liquidity Facility on which I’ve commented previously, I’m attaching an excellent...
Tom Cochran
Jun 10, 20201 min read
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State-By-State Distribution of PPP Loans
The Washington Post has published an interesting story on the only state-owned bank left in the US (The Bank of North Dakota) because it...
Tom Cochran
May 26, 20201 min read
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