Clark Center Forum

Around 24 million Americans buy healthcare insurance through the marketplace established under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), and, until the 31st December last year, the majority of those purchasers received a subsidy via a tax credit. But now those subsidies have been allowed to lapse. As the Wall Street Journal reported this week: Millions of […] 

 

Over the past three months, alongside the regular coverage of the Clark Center’s polls and other news, On Global Markets has been reporting on the discussions held at the Clark Center Economic Experts Conference 9/10 October. Most of those sessions were held under the Chatham House Rule. The final session of the Clark Center’s Economic […] 

Throughout the second half of 2024 and for much of 2025, whenever global investors were surveyed on the biggest risks to asset prices, ‘geopolitics’ tended to come towards the top of the list.  The first two weeks of 2026 have seen a US intervention in Venezuela, mass protests and threats of foreign intervention in Iran, […] 

This US survey examines (a) The US intervention in Venezuela will have no measurable impact on the world oil price over the next 12 months; (b) The US intervention will lead to a substantial increase in the profitability of US energy companies over the next five years; (c) The US intervention will lead to a substantial increase in economic growth in Venezuela over the next five years 

This European survey examines (a) The US intervention in Venezuela will have no measurable impact on the world oil price over the next 12 months; (b) The US intervention will lead to a substantial increase in the profitability of US energy companies over the next five years; (c) The US intervention will lead to a substantial increase in economic growth in Venezuela over the next five years 

Over the past two months, alongside the regular coverage of the Clark Center’s polls and other news, On Global Markets has been reporting on the discussions held at the Economic Experts Conference 9/10 October. Most of those sessions were held under the Chatham House Rule. The development of artificial intelligence (AI), in its various guises, […] 

The regulation of Big Tech, the internet, and digital markets in general is a realm of transatlantic diversion. The last decade has seen the European Union (EU) press ahead with its General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) – which brought about strict laws on data handling – and enact the Digital Markets Act, which designated some […] 

This European survey examines (a) The potential for consumer privacy to be compromised by digital platforms’ use of personal data is sufficient to justify regulations that assign consumers some kind of default control rights over their data; b) To date, EU efforts to regulate use of personal data - primarily the General Data Protection Regulation, GDPR - have been largely ineffective at protecting consumers; b) To date, EU efforts to regulate use of personal data - primarily GDPR - have imposed substantial costs on European businesses, slowing innovation and growth 

The proposed Trump Accounts (https://trumpaccounts.gov/) will provide an initial savings deposit of $1,000 from the US Treasury to eligible children born between 2025 and 2028, and allow up to $5,000 a year in additional private contributions; (a) The proposed Trump Accounts will substantially improve long-term wealth accumulation; (b) The proposed Trump Accounts will substantially reduce income inequality among future generations (c) The proposed Trump Accounts will substantially increase support for free-market capitalism over socialism