Today on TAP: Some of it is purely opportunistic. We need an excess profits tax and maybe price controls.
inflation
Posted inEducation in America
Will Spiking Energy Prices Necessitate Student Loan Debt Cancellation?
The Biden administration has promised a decision by May.
Posted inTAP
Don’t Blame Wages for Inflation
Today on TAP: Workers are at last beginning to get what’s owed them. The sources of price hikes are elsewhere.
Posted inEconomic Policy
New York Begins Rulemaking to Stop Corporate Profiteering
The attorney general’s office will seek to apply the state’s price-gouging law to opportunistic price increases that use high inflation as an excuse.
Posted inPolitics
The Biden Identity
Joe Biden tells us who he is and who he isn’t—which will help him, God willing and the creek don’t rise.
Posted inTAP
What Biden Will Say Tonight, and What He Should Say
Today on TAP: His defense of democracy and his attack on inflation can lead to some distinctly progressive initiatives.
Posted inEconomic Policy
The Inflation Conundrum
There is a lot that can be done to restrain prices that doesn’t sandbag the recovery with higher interest rates.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
What’s the Progressive Answer to High Gas Prices?
The energy transition is already here, but so are midterm-killing gas increases. Climate hawks are winning the war and losing the battle.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Antitrust Should Be Used to Fight Inflation
Controlling market power is an integral tool to deal with rising costs.