The Senate Is Even More Anti-Democratic Than You Think
Donald Trump’s efforts to dominate American democracy may seem sui generis. Certainly, no other president has dismissed the results of a national election he lost, rallied supporters to violently...
View ArticleThe Debt Ceiling, Austerity, and the Economic Challenges Haunting President...
The latest reports on real growth and personal incomes issued last week by the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) include equally cautionary news for the economy and President Biden’s prospects in 2024....
View ArticleWhy Don’t Americans Recognize that Inflation is Down and Incomes are Up?
My late boss, Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, a sage and successful politician, once told me that in politics, “If you don’t get credit, it didn’t happen.” The White House and congressional Democrats...
View ArticleMore Encouraging News on Inflation Means the Fed Should Pause Interest Rate...
The Biden administration has pulled off a remarkable two-step—at once, beating inflation while expanding employment. In both cases, policy decisions drove the results—10 interest rate increases to tame...
View ArticleOops! Ron DeSantis’s Economic Program and Critique Make the Case…for Bidenomics
Despite Donald Trump’s indictments and looming trials, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis faces virtually insurmountable challenges in his bid to defeat his party’s cult leader and win the GOP nomination....
View ArticleTrade Agreements Have Created U.S. Jobs And Raised U.S. Incomes
The rising political opposition to open trade from both the left and the right is an instance, and one among many, of how today’s policy debates become decoupled from reality. On this Labor Day week,...
View ArticleWhen You Know How Polls Work, You Realize that the Early Polls Don’t Matter
Despite four criminal indictments with 91 felony charges, recent surveys show Donald Trump leading Joe Biden narrowly. Or by as much as 10 points. Or trailing by a point or two. Or down by five. This...
View ArticleWhy Biden’s Good Economic News Hasn’t Helped Him Politically — So Far
Americans’ negative views about President Joe Biden’s stewardship of the economy may be the biggest challenge to his reelection. Despite healthy GDP growth and the largest job gains on record over his...
View ArticleData Don’t Lie: Biden’s Economic Record is Much Better than Trump’s
Donald Trump’s prospects for a second presidential term may well rest on whether voters accept his proposition that facts no longer matter. A case in point is his narrative that the economy was...
View ArticleBased on Incomes, Americans Are a Lot Better Off Under Biden Than They Were...
In their only 1980 presidential debate, Ronald Reagan posed a famous question that sealed Jimmy Carter’s political fate: “Are you better now than you were four years ago?” Bill Clinton similarly denied...
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