New policies that better support workers and employ more people are needed T here appears to be growing consensus among economists and policymakers that inflation is now the main threat to the US economy and the Federal Reserve Board needs to start ratche ...
2 Feb 2022 - Martin Hart-Lan...
COMMENTARY | We need more funding for public programs; we also need to address the obscene concentration of wealth The bank robber Willie Sutton, when asked by a reporter why he robbed banks, is reputed to have answered, “Because that’s where the money is ...
20 Dec 2019 - Martin Hart-Lan...
COMMENTARY | Efforts to speed economic growth are not the solution A recent study published in Science Magazine, “The Fading American Dream: Trends in Absolute Income Mobility Since 1940,” makes clear that the workings of the contemporary U.S. economy hav ...
29 Aug 2017 - Martin Hart-Lan...