Myrtle Beach, SC, Orlando, FL and Washington, D.C. January 2, 2022—Thinking Outside the Boxe has released the transcripts of the question and answer session from its 2021 Annual Symposium. Participants included correspondents from Sydney, Australia; Owatonna, Minnesota; Myrtle Beach, South Carolina; and Sheffield, Jamaica.

Topics included the withdrawal from Afghanistan, federal spending and inflation, consistent content-moderation standards, semiconductor and critical-mineral supply chains, remote work and regional inequality, public-health emergency declarations, national standards for election administration, pandemic learning loss, the choice between tighter money and continued stimulus, ESG criteria and capital allocation, global public-health institutions, the decline of urban commercial activity, transfer programs and labor-force participation, regulation of AI and biotechnology, and congressional limits on emergency and national-security authorities.

The transcript is available at www.ThinkingOutsideTheBoxe.com.

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