In the Progressive and New Deal eras, there was a markedly different response to rising prices, and a different usage of economic theory.
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Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Q&A: Inclusive Insurance to the Rescue?
Redesigning disaster insurance coverage could help low- and middle-income people keep one step ahead of the accelerating climate crisis.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Inflation in an Unequal World Economy
How the Fed’s policies are doubly perverse for the Global South
Posted inTAP
Slime-on-a-Rock Cuisine and Social Democracy
Today on TAP: Noma, the world’s most pretentious restaurant, in Copenhagen of all places, to close.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Floods’ Worst Ravages Will Be Visited Upon California’s Poorest
This month’s torrent compounds the affordable-housing crisis.
Posted inEducation in America
The End of College Rankings?
Today on TAP: Maybe the law schools will start an overdue stampede.
Posted inEconomic Policy
At Least the Tech Winter Will Kill Off Some Zombie Companies
A decade of ultra-cheap credit and weak consumer spending created some of the biggest money-losing companies in history.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Already in a Hole, the Federal Reserve Keeps Digging
Unfounded Fed tightening myths are backfiring on the economy.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
From Countervailing to Prevailing Power
Progressives should plan our fights against anti-democratic oligarchies with the explicit aim of becoming the dominant political force.