Archive: News
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Downes comments on AT&T-Time Warner merger in Variety feature
Larry Downes responds to the potential merger of AT&T and Time Warner in a Variety feature article by Ted Johnson, AT&T-Time Warner Merger: Is the Battle With DOJ or President Trump? Downes sta
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CBPP hosts forum on NAFTA renegotiation status
On November 8, 2017, the Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy convened a panel discussion of the status of the current North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) negotiations and the
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Larry Downes: “Will modern Luddites smash tech’s future?” (Washington Post)
It’s become hip lately to bash the tech industry, and especially those of us who work in Silicon Valley. Current technologies, including social media and news sites, as well as emerging innovatio
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Carol Corrado’s publication wins Indigo Prize for designing a new indicator to measure GDP
Senior policy scholar Carol Corrado and her co-authors have won the Indigo Prize for their publication Improving GDP: Demolishing, Repointing or Extending? The Indigo Prize is awarded to the entr
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CBPP hosts forum on Massive Broadband Network Densification: Unleashing the Opportunities of 5G
The Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy (CBPP) hosted the fifth annual spectrum technology and policy forum in partnership with the Wireless Technology Association: Massive Broadb
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Larry Downes: “A Legislative Solution For Net Neutrality May Be Close” (Forbes)
In May, at a Senate Committee hearing on broadband infrastructure at which Larry Downes testified, ranking Democrat Bill Nelson (D-Fla.) signaled strong support for a legislative solution to
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Larry Downes comments about the implications of a potential merger between Sprint and T-Mobile in Bloomberg BNA feature
In a feature Bloomberg BNA about the possibility of Sprint Corp. merging with T-Mobil US Inc., Larry Downes begged the question, "Can Sprint, can T-Mobile, last that long, and are they willing an
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Burton releases EPV: “A Sanguine Assessment of North American Freight Railroads”
The CBPP published an economic policy vignette, "A Sanguine Assessment of North American Freight Railroads," on behalf of Professor Mark L. Burton of University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
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Robert Shapiro critiques the Council of Economic Advisers’ tax cut estimates in NY Times feature
CBPP Senior Policy Scholar Robert Shapiro responded to Mr. Trump's Council of Economic Advisers' estimate of average household income savings due to corporate tax cuts. Shapiro is cited in The Ne
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Robert Shapiro comments about U.S. treasury secretary’s fears of “tax cuts or market will dive” in CNN Money feature
Money.cnn.com featured CBPP senior policy scholar Robert Shapiro's reaction to U.S. treasury secretary Mnuchin's address to Congress. Mnuchin stated that Congress needs to take heed on the Trump
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