The transportation secretary has a major role to play in easing the supply chain crisis. Pete Buttigieg isn’t doing the job.
Supply Chain
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Fighting the Inflation Profiteers
Companies are raising prices well above increases in their costs. The only antidote is to finally take action against corporate power.
Posted inEconomic Policy
The Supply Chain Mess
A deeper cure will take years, but Biden is finding creative ways to get things unstuck.
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Biden: Don’t Repeat Jimmy Carter’s Catastrophic Mistake on Inflation
Overreacting would be bad economics and bad politics.
Posted inTAP
Bipartisanship Lives—Thanks to China
Today on TAP: Schumer moves to add a major technology bill to the must-pass defense authorization.
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Is Summers Owed an Apology—or Does He Owe Us One?
Today on TAP: The policies that he promoted helped produce the supply chain crisis, and his diagnosis of today’s inflation is just plain wrong.
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The Price of Political Success
Today on TAP: Will inflation subside in time for the 2022 midterms?
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Biden’s Recovery Is on Track
And that’s no reason to reduce Build Back Better, but every reason to fully fund it.
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What’s Causing the Weird Inflation?
And is there anything Biden can do to make it subside before it adds to the Democrats’ woes in 2022?
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The Great American Ammunition Conspiracy
Two companies are at the root of the current shortage.
