Today on TAP: Yes, if the president plays it astutely. But other factors could matter more.
inflation
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Big Funeral Exploits Consumers Under Guise of Inflation
Reduced inflation across the economy magnifies the sectors where high markups persist.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Time for a Victory Lap?
Those who believed inflation would be transitory were proven right, and those who demanded the sacrifice of mass unemployment proven wrong.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Q&A: Arin Dube on the Benefits of Full Employment
The UMass professor details a reduction in wage inequality unseen in the U.S. in half a century.
Posted inEconomic Policy
A Moral Theory for Why People Don’t Like Bidenomics
Evidence suggests that people simply hate inflation as such. Luckily, it is coming down fast.
Posted inEconomic Policy
The Case for Interest Rate Cuts
The Federal Reserve won’t talk about it. A new study shows why they must.
Posted inPolitics
Are the Democrats Sleepwalking to Disaster?
Joe Biden has been an excellent president, but is also, I fear, the candidate least able to defeat Donald Trump. Other Democrats need to enter the race.
Posted inTAP
Biden, the Economy, and the Election
Today on TAP: It’s grossly unfair, but don’t look to the good economy to improve Biden’s re-election chances.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
How Larry Summers’s Bad Predictions Hurt the Planet
The clean-energy transition is faltering because of unexpectedly high interest rates, which Summers’s demands to slow down the economy helped usher in.
