Category Archives: Economy
A New Progressive Economic Strategy, Part 3: Tax Reform
The most dispiriting feature of this year’s economic debates, apart from their fierce partisanship, is the absence of a broad…Continue reading
A New Progressive Economic Strategy, Part 2: Spending Reforms
You don’t have to be a Nobel economist to see that the United States needs a serious, new economic approach…Continue reading
A New, Progressive Economic Strategy, Part 1
uLooking out onto the smoky, endless skyline of Seoul, Korea, I think about our two nations’ similar economic paths, from…Continue reading
The President’s Reforms and the New Politics of Containing Health…
The health care reforms enacted this week are an unequivocal political triumph for President Obama. He turned back the most…Continue reading
Broadband and American Jobs
With the FCC preparing to issue new rules and policies to promote universal broadband access, Washington’s hive of think tanks…Continue reading
The True Costs of “Charging it†in America
American consumers gained a few basic protections this week regarding their credit and debit cards, but they’re only the beginning…Continue reading
The New Dominos as the Economic Crisis Enters its Latest…
The dislocations from the worldwide, economic meltdown aren’t over by a long shot. Nearly two years after Bear Stearns’ collapse,…Continue reading
Cutting Payroll Taxes to Create Jobs
Looking for ways to jumpstart job creation, the White House and Senate heavyweight Chuck Schumer have both come around to…Continue reading
The Serious Economic Measures that Congress Won’t Consider
What amounts to a small miracle for Washington just happened: The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) issued a new report on…Continue reading
America’s Path and the Rise of the Rest
The perennial question of America in decline is back. It’s the subject of new books and the cover story of…Continue reading