Robert E. Litan

U.S. Internet companies are engaged in a two-front effort to defend the $100 billion they earn from online advertising. Companies such as Google and Facebook have been fighting proposed European Union privacy laws they say would slow innovation. Now, they...

Buried in the 800-plus pages of the Gang of Eight’s Senate immigration overhaul are provisions that may help spark a resurgence of entrepreneurial activity that this country sorely needs. Until the Great Recession of 2008-09, 500,000 to 600,000 new businesses...

DOA, the dreaded acronym for “dead on arrival,” has greeted most White House budgets in recent decades of growing partisanship. There is certainly reason for believing that designation is appropriate for President Barack Obama’s $3.8 trillion budget for fiscal 2014...

Hoops fans will be glued to the TV this weekend and early next week to watch the Final Four, college basketball’s annual culmination of March Madness.  A new Bloomberg Government Insight by senior analyst Patrick Driessen shows how the federal...

Securing the southern border stands as one of the biggest obstacles to immigration overhaul. Most Republicans, before they endorse a substantive legislative solution, want an impenetrable border to stanch the flow of undocumented workers into the U.S. Most Democrats want...

Senator Marco Rubio argues that getting the economy to grow at a sustained rate of 4 percent a year would create millions of jobs and reduce the 10-year deficit by $4 trillion. Bloomberg Government senior economic analyst Christopher Payne crunched...

It’s rare these days in Washington to find even a goal free of bitter partisan division. Fortunately, there is one: faster Internet access over “broadband” networks.  In contrast to electricity, broadband isn’t an all-or-nothing proposition. There are many different broadband...

Budget cuts under sequestration begin Friday, March 1. Bloomberg Government’s extensive coverage during the past several months has debunked many misperceptions about squestration. In a new BGov Insight, BGov’s Senior budget analysts Robert Levinson and Cameron Leuthy identify the Big Seven: ...

Feb. 25 (Bloomberg) — Federal regulators have taken heat for not cracking down enough on Wall Street misdeeds, but Washington’s watchdogs have been baring their teeth plenty when it comes to investigating the business of foreign corruption.             The Foreign...

President Barack Obama says addressing climate change will be a top policy priority during his second term. The Republican-controlled House of Representatives, however, is unlikely to play along. This means the president will be left with a regulation-driven approach to...