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To strengthen the American semiconductor industry, Congress should condition additional funds on suspending stock buybacks

On deregulation and Covid masks, libertarians are loud. On female liberty, deafening silence.

Contrary to rhetoric from Democrats and Republicans, the U.S. has an economic interest in trade and peace with China

Economist Darrick Hamilton, co-author of a new report on wealth across racial and ethnic groups in Tulsa, Oklahoma, explores the legacy of the Tulsa Race Massacre with the Institute for New Economic Thinking’s Lynn Parramore.

An excerpt from the just released book, The Outlier, by Kai Bird

Formerly incarcerated Black people emerge from prison with far less education and social skills than white ex-cons. And they have great trouble forming families or earning a good living.

For thirty years after the Civil Rights Act, a sizable share of white Southerners still voted Democrat. That changed when the party embraced trade deals that hurt American workers.

How NAFTA led to GOP dominance of the American South

Amid debates over costs—and profits—from a coronavirus vaccine, a new study shows that taxpayers have been footing the bill for every new drug approved between 2010 and 2019

An alternative look at the “global savings glut”

The success of projects for pandemic preparedness and response depends on the strength of government-business collaborations.

Over and over again, US government policies designed to transfer and create wealth and economic opportunity were restricted to whites by design.

The Fed is taking an aggressive approach to put out the economic fires of the pandemic. But it needs to allow for flexibility as some business models irreparably change.

Rising inequality has focused attention on the benefits of new technologies. Do these accrue primarily to inventors, early investors, and highly skilled users, or to society more widely as their adoption generates employment growth?

Since the 1980s, the enemy of equal employment opportunity through upward socioeconomic mobility has been the pervasive and entrenched corporate-governance ideology and practice of maximizing shareholder value.