Making U.S. vaccines available to all nations as fast as possible will require leadership that defies both progressive and conservative preferences.

April 2021

Every industrialized nation got that way on purpose, with state-led investment a required piece of the process. The U.S. will not be able to get back to…
Didn't we leave that behind in the 19th century?
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The American Jobs Plan is historic in it's scale, but we can't pat ourselves on the back yet.
The failed campaign in Bessemer, Alabama, does not prove that workers don't want a union. It shows that workers see no logic in the labor movement's…
Sometimes it seems as though every time public officials return to talking about productive Hamiltonian public investment, or speak in a balanced way of…
America is finally changing its mind about manufacturing. For the past several decades, Democratic and Republican administrations competed to see who…
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March 2021

All across the political spectrum, those who think about and implement economic policy are rapidly gravitating toward a new consensus. Ideological…
Biden’s plans to spend $3-5 trillion in a recovery package to rebuild the economy sounds very promising. In this series, we’re exploring ideas for him…
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I'm angry in advance at the Biden administration for not preventing the next pandemic--a pandemic which experts warn could be anywhere from 1/10th to 10…
After passing a $1.9 trillion dollar COVID-19 relief package, the Biden administration has accomplished its first goal of getting a floor under our…
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February 2021

For part 1 of this post that explains what the balance sheet is, click here. Since 2008, first because of the great recession of 2008-09 and now because…
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