The Brookings Economic Studies program provides analysis of current and emerging economic issues to promote innovative and practical policy solutions.
The Brookings Economic Studies program provides analysis of current and emerging economic issues to promote innovative and practical policy solutions. Economic Studies scholars conduct rigorous research and policy analysis and communicate their findings to inform policymakers and the public in the areas of broad-based economic growth, economic opportunity and mobility, inclusive social policy, sound monetary and fiscal policy, and climate-resilient growth.
Don Kohn, a senior fellow and holder of the Robert V. Roosa Chair in International Economics in Economic Studies at Brookings, is a 40-year veteran of the Federal Reserve; he served as a member of the Federal Reserve Board from 2002 to 2010, and as vice chair from 2006 to 2010.
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There’s an opportunity to be the voice of calm and I don’t think tearing up the Fed and having five dissents on wording is the way he’s going to want to do that.”
Any way you cut it, there are tens of thousands of children who have experienced parental detention since this president entered office. The majority are U.S. citizens.”
The big plus is the way [Warsh] has protected central bank independence. That is the most important thing for the future of the Federal Reserve.”
Jessica Riedl spoke with the New York Times about the roughly $1.5 trillion sought for the Pentagon budget next fiscal year, amounting to about 4.5 percent of the nation’s GDP.
Nellie Liang is interviewed in the New York Times on the potential for a crisis on the scale of the 2008 financial crisis.
Elena Patel spoke with CNBC about the “no tax on tips” deduction and how some low-income filers who don’t typically pay federal income tax won’t see big refunds.
If your goal is to reshore manufacturing, of course that’s going to be more expensive because the reason it was offshored in the first place was because corporations wanted to lower..."
Lauren Bauer was interviewed by Axios for a story on the government shutdown’s impacts on SNAP benefits.
Aviva Aron-Dine shares her perspective on the politics of health care subsidies during the government shutdown.
The Brookings Papers on Economic Activity (BPEA) is a semi-annual academic conference and journal that pairs rigorous research with real-time policy analysis to address the most urgent economic challenges of the day.
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