Economic Policy

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  2/15/2021
  

  Biden and the Fed Leave 1970s Inflation Fears Behind

  Biden's economic advisors appear to be treating unemployment, eviction and poverty wages as more serious problems than modest inflation, reversing decades of austerity-driven guidance. 

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• SOURCE: New York Magazine
  2/8/2021
  

  The Forces That Stopped Obama’s Recovery Will Not Stop Biden’s

  by Jonathan Chait

  Has the bipartisan Washington elite preoccupation with budget deficits faded since the Obama Administration's troubled efforts to promote economic recovery in 2009? Will austerity wreck Biden's goals too? Jon Chait says that moment has passed. 

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• SOURCE: The Week
  1/26/2021
  

  Democrats are getting Chuck Grassleyed

  The Senate negotiations over the Affordable Care Act and the 2009 Recovery Act are not ancient history. It remains to be seen if Senate Democrats can learn from them. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at The Washington Post
  9/4/2020
  

  The Depression-Era Lessons That Can Solve Today’s Evictions Crisis

  by Anya Jabour

  Social workers and researchers Edith Abbott and Sophonisba Breckinridge conducted an important study of evictions in Chicago during the Great Depression and advocated for federal support for a minimum standard of living including housing. The looming eviction crisis demands similar big thinking. 

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• SOURCE: Capita
  5/15/2020
  

  Lessons for a Depression: A Conversation with Historian Eric Rauchway

  Historian Eric Rauchway compares the Great Depression and our current pandemic-induced economic decline, Franklin Roosevelt’s democratic principles, and the role of a competent government in preventing authoritarianism. 

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• SOURCE: University of Chicago Institute of Politics
  5/14/2020
  

  The New Normal: Economic Justice After COVID-19 (Speaker Gene Sperling, May 19)

  Gene Sperling's new book challenges decades of market-oriented economic policy in favor of a standard based on human well-being.

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• SOURCE: ProPublica
  4/7/2020
  

  How the Coronavirus Bailout Repeats 2008’s Mistakes: Huge Corporate Payoffs With Little Accountability

  As the government rushes to aid the economy, how that’s done, who benefits and who is left behind matter. So far, the signs are ominous.

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• SOURCE: Los Angeles Times
  3/23/2020
  

  The New Deal Has Lessons for the Coronavirus Crisis—But Not the Ones You Think

  by Michael Hiltzik

  Policy should be focused on the immediate goal of protecting American households from the hardships of lost jobs. Setting the stage for a resumption of economic activity is important, too, but at this very moment it’s secondary.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/16/2020
  

  Live Updates: U.S. Stocks Nosedive, Trading Paused as Emergency Fed Action Fails to Mollify Investors

  The Dow plunges 2,300 points as a brutal coronavirus-fueled sell-off intensifies.

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• SOURCE: Oxford University Press Blog
  10-1-14
  

  On the importance of independent, objective policy analysis

  by Richard S. Grossman

  How do we avoid excessively ideological economic policy?