In recent years, figures within the Republican Party have broken from conservative economic orthodoxy to advocate for increasingly populist policies. This schism represents a growing threat to party unity heading into the 2022 midterms. While the Rep...
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In recent years, figures within the Republican Party have broken from conservative economic orthodoxy to advocate for increasingly populist policies. This schism represents a growing threat to party unity heading into the 2022 midterms. While the Rep...
The recent history of the world economy has been one scarred with recurring crises. The financial crisis of 2008 delivered a severe blow to the global economy, but it would be dwarfed in 2020 by the recession induced by the Covid-19 pandemic. In both...
The recent history of the world economy has been one scarred with recurring crises. The financial crisis of 2008 delivered a severe blow to the global economy, but it would be dwarfed in 2020 by the recession induced by the Covid-19 pandemic. In both...
For the last three decades, anti-debt polemics have been the cause célèbre of self-styled “fiscal conservatives.” Over the course of their crusade, deficit hawks have cultivated several strategies to reduce government borrowing and spending. Th...
For the last three decades, anti-debt polemics have been the cause célèbre of self-styled “fiscal conservatives.” Over the course of their crusade, deficit hawks have cultivated several strategies to reduce government borrowing and spending. Th...
Stanley Druckenmiller and Geoffrey Canada are speaking. The event is being put on by Common Sense Action Brown University, and co-sponsored by a variety of groups including the Brown Political Review. Druckenmiller is a hedge fund manager, and Can...
Stanley Druckenmiller and Geoffrey Canada are speaking. The event is being put on by Common Sense Action Brown University, and co-sponsored by a variety of groups including the Brown Political Review. Druckenmiller is a hedge fund manager, and Can...
The BPR Media Team explores the U.S. government shutdown....
The BPR Media Team explores the U.S. government shutdown....
The sequestration process has received a lot of press in the at-large media and here on BPR. Still, I would like to devote this week’s column to talk about how the process costs not just in money, but in time, too. Eventually, I would guess, the s...
The sequestration process has received a lot of press in the at-large media and here on BPR. Still, I would like to devote this week’s column to talk about how the process costs not just in money, but in time, too. Eventually, I would guess, the s...
RI State House (photo by author) Last weekend, I attended the Rhode Island Fiscal Summit, sponsored by a Brown student group called Common Sense Action. The group hopes to bridge the partisan divide about the national debt (good luck with that!)....
RI State House (photo by author) Last weekend, I attended the Rhode Island Fiscal Summit, sponsored by a Brown student group called Common Sense Action. The group hopes to bridge the partisan divide about the national debt (good luck with that!)....
The sequester, as you’ve probably heard, is happening March 1. What is the sequester? To use a (somewhat unfortunate) metaphor, the sequester is a gun to the head of Congress. The sequester is a package of across-the-board budget cuts, evenly affec...
The sequester, as you’ve probably heard, is happening March 1. What is the sequester? To use a (somewhat unfortunate) metaphor, the sequester is a gun to the head of Congress. The sequester is a package of across-the-board budget cuts, evenly affec...
Roosevelt signs the Social Security Act (from Wikimedia Commons) I’ve come to view Paul Krugman as belligerent and repetitive, but he’s still a smart writer who can turn a phrase. Last year Krugman noted that the federal government is essentially...
Roosevelt signs the Social Security Act (from Wikimedia Commons) I’ve come to view Paul Krugman as belligerent and repetitive, but he’s still a smart writer who can turn a phrase. Last year Krugman noted that the federal government is essentially...