There is a lot that can be done to restrain prices that doesn’t sandbag the recovery with higher interest rates.
inflation
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.
Posted inPolitics
Biden Makes His Case
Attacking Republicans in a Harry Trumanesque manner can work, but if COVID and inflation persist, then not so much.
Posted inTAP
Reading the Inflation Numbers Wrong
Today on TAP: Will the media and the Fed stampede the economy into 1970s-style stagflation?
Posted inTAP
Going Soft on China Will Not Reduce Inflation
Today on TAP: Why are some Biden advisers pushing this idea?
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
The Eternal Recurrence of Defense Contractor Price-Gouging
For the second time in three years, TransDigm has been caught ripping off the Pentagon for millions of dollars. Will there finally be some accountability?
Posted inBuilding Back America
The 1937 Project
Or maybe the 1979 Project. Either way, Democrats are blundering into premature austerity.
Posted inEconomic Policy
The Inflation-Fighting Bill You Don’t Know About
An overwhelmingly bipartisan effort would finally crack down on the ocean shipping cartel.
