The notion that public investment crowds out private spending has taken a beating lately.
Economic Policy
Posted inEconomic Policy
Secretary Yellen, Where Are the Crypto Tax Regulations?
After almost two years, the Treasury Department hasn’t even started trying to force crypto companies to pay what they owe.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Public Subsidies to Sports Stadiums Aren’t Going Away
A Tempe, Arizona, vote showed cities can decline to fund millionaires’ arenas—but some municipalities still shower wealthy teams with taxpayer dollars.
Posted inPolitics
Will DeSantis’s Culture War Backfire?
Increasing cancellations of convention plans and business investments are starting to damage Florida’s economy.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Lina Khan Haters Took a Premature Victory Lap
It turns out that the ethics official who recommended that Khan recuse herself from a case involving Meta is an owner of Meta stock.
Posted inEconomic Policy
It’s Hamiltonian! It’s Jeffersonian! It’s Bidenomics!
The president’s economic policies combine the best elements of our economic heritage.
Posted inPolitics
Can Democrats Sell ‘Bidenomics’?
The substance is there. But the sales apparatus isn’t yet.
Posted inWorking in America
TSMC to Bring 500+ More Migrant Workers to Arizona
The chipmaking giant, which expects to receive up to $15 billion in federal tax credits and grants for its Arizona facility, says U.S. workers are not up to the job.
Posted inTAP
Big Changes to a Little Form
Today on TAP: The antitrust agencies propose that companies actually give them the information they need to decide whether their mergers are legal.
Posted inPolitics
Moving Past Neoliberalism Is a Policy Project
In order to test whether improving people’s lives can convince them to support Democrats, you have to, well, improve people’s lives.