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Inflation, Misguided Economics, and the Fed

6 months 1 week ago
Today on TAP: Once again, mainstream analysts and Fed economists miss the real story in the latest inflation numbers—which is hidden in plain view if you bother to look.
Robert Kuttner

Money Misses the Mark in Maryland

6 months 1 week ago
Despite spending $62 million of his own fortune on the Democratic Senate primary, Rep. David Trone lost last night to county executive Angela Alsobrooks.
Luke Goldstein

Can We All Get Along?

6 months 1 week ago
A Q&A with Eman Abdelhadi, a Palestinian University of Chicago professor, about encampments, dialogue, and mutual respect
Rick Perlstein

Is Denis McDonough a Slow Reader?

6 months 1 week ago
The VA secretary’s professed ignorance about a report he commissioned describing an ‘existential threat’ to his agency is alarming.
Suzanne Gordon

Sam Bankman-Fried Is Not Entirely Wrong

6 months 1 week ago
FTX’s victims are getting up to 143 percent of their money back, because the system treated it like the fraud it was. As the Steward case shows, that’s not usually how bankruptcy works.
Maureen Tkacik

Unclear Lines

6 months 1 week ago
An energy regulatory decision today could carve out the path for fully renewable energy in America, by attacking the central challenge of transmission capacity.
David Dayen