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

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…
Zack Exley
Didn't we leave that behind in the 19th century?
Zack Exley
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The American Jobs Plan is historic in it's scale, but we can't pat ourselves on the back yet.
Saikat Chakrabarti
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…
Zack Exley
Sometimes it seems as though every time public officials return to talking about productive Hamiltonian public investment, or speak in a balanced way of…
Robert Hockett
America is finally changing its mind about manufacturing. For the past several decades, Democratic and Republican administrations competed to see who…
Zack Exley
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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…
Zack Exley
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…
Saikat Chakrabarti
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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…
Zack Exley
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…
Saikat Chakrabarti
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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…
Saikat Chakrabarti
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Robert Hockett
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