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October 24, 2024
The New York Times: Trump flirts with the ultimate tax cut: No income taxes at all
“A challenge for raising revenue from tariffs is that placing a tax on imports tends to cut the amount of trade—and therefore reduce the amount of revenue coll…
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September 29, 2024
Yahoo Finance: What 3 economists say is in store in a second Trump economy
“On the stump, the former president has called for a 60% tariff on Chinese imports along with a blanket 10% to 20% on all remaining goods imported from other c…
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August 29, 2024
CNBC Squawk Box: Harris’ tax plan would be far more committed to a responsible fiscal trajectory, says Wendy Edelberg
“As it relates to the deficit, I think a Harris administration would be far more committed to a responsible fiscal trajectory and far more committed to making …
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August 15, 2023
Associated Press: ‘Bidenomics’ delivered a once-in-generation investment. It shows the pros and cons of policymaking
“’We spent decades underinvesting,’ said Wendy Edelberg, a former chief economist at the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office and now a senior fellow in eco…
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June 29, 2023
Axios: America may need to start caring about the deficit again
“‘The pandemic created enormous economic losses, and we used borrowing not so much to make the losses vanish into thin air but to spread them out over time,’ W…
Commentary
March 21, 2023
Project Syndicate: The Fed must not flinch
“The failures of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank are significant market events. But, given an overheated labor market and 1970s-like inflation, if the F…
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February 7, 2023
PBS NewsHour: WATCH: Economic policy and Biden’s presidency | 2023 State of the Union
Inflation and its impact on the wider economy and the lives of people across the country has dominated domestic policy concerns this past year. The PBS NewsHou…
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January 20, 2023
NPR Detroit: Why another debt ceiling fight looms in Congress
“Wendy Edelberg is the director of The Hamilton Project and a senior fellow in Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution. She previously served as the Chie…