Les économistes américains ont des avis convergents sur plusieurs points:

• 87.5 percent agree that "the U.S. should eliminate remaining tariffs and other barriers to trade."
• 85.2 percent agree that "the U.S. should eliminate agricultural subsidies."
• 85.3 percent agree that "the gap between Social Security funds and expenditures will become unsustainably large within the next fifty years if current policies remain unchanged."
• 77.2 percent agree that "the best way to deal with Social Security's long-term funding gap is to increase the normal retirement age."
• 67.1 percent agree that "parents should be given educational vouchers which can be used at government-run or privately-run schools."
• 65.0 percent agree that "the U.S. should increase energy taxes."

• 90.1 percent disagree with the position that "the U.S. should restrict employers from outsourcing work to foreign countries."