With the ultra-hawkish senator disgraced, what’s stopping Biden from resuming normalization of relations with Cuba?
Economic Policy
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We Can and Should Address Racial Disparities
Most of the programs that would be most beneficial to racial equality are actually universal policies.
Posted inPolitics
You Don’t Need a Shrink to Tell You Why You Feel This Way
Really anxious about this week’s Biden-Trump debate? So is everybody else.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Treasury Foresaw the Synapse Collapse Two Years Ago
An agency report detailed how fintech ‘neobanks’ could fall into the regulatory cracks. Nobody managed to patch them up, and now depositors can’t retrieve their own money.
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Economic Punditry and the ‘Hot Dog Guy’ Problem
Why centrist opinion columnists have no one to blame but themselves for public misconceptions about the economy
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Republican Hit Job on the FDIC Backfires
Today on TAP: The successor to the ousted chair, Martin Gruenberg, is likely to be an even tougher regulator.
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The Prospect Weekly Roundup: The Underbelly of the Grocery Store
Nothing you see on the shelves is there by accident.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Taming the Pricing Beast
The government has a variety of strategies to protect the public from price-gouging and information advantages over the consumer.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Lina Khan: Extraction Exterminator
The Federal Trade Commission chair plays a key role in preventing exploitative pricing schemes from taking root.