What this report finds: Corporate boards running America’s largest public firms are giving top executives outsize compensation packages that have grown much faster…
Josh Bivens
The Federal Reserve has been under intense pressure in recent months to sharply raise interest rates in the name of taming inflation. The…
The GOP used the debt ceiling to force spending cuts in 2011. It can’t be allowed again
Summary “The sharing economy” refers to a constellation of (mostly) Silicon Valley–based companies that use the internet as their primary interface with…
Economic logic and evidence argues strongly that American workers should not expect any noticeable wage boost from cutting corporate income taxes
Why tax cuts for high-income households and corporations won’t help working families
The wedge between implied promises and delivered reality to working-class households already looks awfully large, and will likely just grow over time
Summary What this report finds: A well-designed financial transaction tax (FTT)—a small levy placed on the sale of stocks, bonds, derivatives, and…
