SAN ANGELO, TX — Romina Boccia, director of budget and entitlement policy at the Cato Institute in Washington, D.C., will give a special guest presentation at Angelo State University on Thursday, Nov. 9, at 5:30 p.m. in the Houston Harte University Center, 1910 Rosemont Drive.
Sponsored by the Texas Tech University Free Market Institute at Angelo State University, Boccia's presentation will take place in the University Center's C.J. Davidson Conference Center and is free and open to the public.
In her presentation titled "Government Debt and the Impact on Growth," Boccia will discuss how countries that borrow as much as the U.S. government experience negative effects, such as lower economic growth and higher interest rates, that affect everything from mortgages to business formation and expansion to auto loans. When government debt grows too far out of control, countries may face fiscal or debt crises, during which banks collapse, unemployment skyrockets, and everyday goods and services become unaffordable.
Boccia will also explain how U.S. fiscal policy got so far out of balance - and what can be done to solve the debt problem before it suffocates the economy.
Angelo State presents Guest Presentation on National Debt
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At the Cato Institute, Boccia specializes in federal spending, the budget process, the economic implications of rising debt, and Social Security and Medicare reform. She writes a weekly column titled "The Debt Dispatch" and is a contributing author for the Cato Institute book "A Fiscal Cliff: New Perspectives on the U.S. Federal Debt Crisis." She previously served as director of the Grover M. Hermann Center for the Federal Budget at the Heritage Foundation, where she was the principal author of its flagship budget plan, "Blueprint for Balance," which heavily influenced President Trump's 2017 budget submission to Congress.
Boccia has also advised members of the U.S. Congress and executive branch on deficit-reduction and growth-oriented policies for more than a decade, and she has testified before the U.S. House and Senate, as well as the Maryland state legislature. She earned her bachelor's and master's degrees in economics from George Mason University.
The TTU Free Market Institute at ASU aims to advance research and teaching related to the free enterprise system and the institutional environment necessary for it to function well and to support the missions of the ASU Norris-Vincent College of Business. The institute also develops and operates student and public programming to benefit ASU students and the San Angelo community.
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