By creating a full-employment economy, Biden enabled millions of low-wage workers to raise their pay.
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A Great Jobs Report and a Vindication of Bidenomics
Today on TAP: Now, the Federal Reserve should just leave well enough alone.
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It’s Hamiltonian! It’s Jeffersonian! It’s Bidenomics!
The president’s economic policies combine the best elements of our economic heritage.
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We’re Number One! (Actually, 38 out of 38)
A new Oxfam survey on worker well-being compares us to the other advanced and semi-advanced economies. America remains exceptional-y bad.
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Pandemic Fraud Is Really, Truly Not a Big Deal
The media’s focus on waste misses key context, and ignores the stunning success of the lockdown-era welfare state.
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Memo to Jay Powell: Quit While You Are Ahead
Today on TAP: The May inflation report was sublime. Time to start cutting interest rates.
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An Unemployment System Frozen in Amber
Pandemic-era benefit boosts worked for jobless recipients and the economy. Why did they go away?
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More Reasons for the Fed to Relent
Today on TAP: But don’t bet the farm on a saner monetary policy.
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The Crypto-Reactionary Deficit Scolds
Today on X-Date: Squint at the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, and you see MAGA conservatives endorsing legislative hostage-taking.
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Are Good Jobs Good News?
Today on TAP: At many media outlets, however belatedly, they are. But not at The Wall Street Journal.
