Today on TAP: After long delay and needless economic damage, the Fed chair commits to cutting interest rates.
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Economics According to Harris
Today on TAP: Addressing corporate price-gouging, building housing, helping families. Good stuff and smart politics.
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Will Panic on Wall Street Convince Jerome Powell to Do His Job?
The Federal Reserve should have cut rates months ago. Now it might be too late.
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Powell’s Perverse Policies Persist
Today on TAP: A flawed understanding of today’s mild inflation leads the Federal Reserve to keep interest rates punishingly high.
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Inflation Is Whipped. Someone Wake Up Jerome Powell.
Time for the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates.
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Federal Reserve Chair Acknowledges Slowing Labor Market
The Fed can do something about that, in line with their mandate of maximizing employment, by cutting interest rates.
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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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Taming the Pricing Beast
The government has a variety of strategies to protect the public from price-gouging and information advantages over the consumer.
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Fighting Corporate Pricing Schemes Is Incredibly Good Politics
Today on TAP: A bill in the House attacking junk fees gets broad bipartisan support.
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War in the Aisles
Monopolies across the grocery supply chain squeeze consumers and small-business owners alike. Big Data will only entrench those dynamics further.