Federal Fiscal Policy

Blog Posts

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Up Front

Putting student loan forgiveness in perspective: How costly is it and who benefits?

Adam Looney

Friday, February 12, 2021

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Up Front

What is reconciliation in Congress?

David Wessel

Friday, February 5, 2021

USC-Brookings Schaeffer on Health Policy

Understanding the No Surprises Act

Loren Adler, Matthew Fiedler, Paul B. Ginsburg, Mark Hall, Benedic Ippolito, and Erin Trish

Thursday, February 4, 2021

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Events

Wall Street Comes to Washington health care roundtable

2:00 PM - 3:45 PM EDT

Fiscal policy advice for Joe Biden and Congress

3:00 PM - 5:00 PM EST

The economy and monetary policy: A conversation with Fed Vice Chair Richard Clarida

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM EST

Online only

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Related Books

The $13 Trillion Question

Edited by David Wessel

2015

To the Edge

By Philip A. Wallach

2015

Transpacific Rebalancing

Edited by Barry P. Bosworth and Masahiro Kawai

2015

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Experts

William G. Gale

The Arjay and Frances Fearing Miller Chair in Federal Economic Policy

Senior Fellow - Economic Studies

Director - Retirement Security Project

Co-Director - Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center

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Louise Sheiner

The Robert S. Kerr Senior Fellow - Economic Studies

Policy Director - The Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy

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Adam Looney

Nonresident Senior Fellow - Economic Studies

Executive Director, Marriner S. Eccles Institute, University of Utah

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Multimedia

U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) heads to a meeting in the office of U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) to wrap up work on coronavirus economic aid legislation, during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Washington, U.S., March 22, 2020. REUTERS/Mary F. Calvert

Podcast Episode

What’s in the Senate’s $2 trillion economic package?

Jay Shambaugh and Adrianna Pita

Wednesday, March 25, 2020

A "Now Hiring" sign hangs on the door to the Urban Outfitters store at Quincy Market in Boston, Massachusetts September 5, 2014. U.S. employers hired the fewest number of workers in eight months in August and more Americans gave up the hunt for jobs, providing a cautious Federal Reserve with more reasons to wait longer before raising interest rates. Nonfarm payrolls increased 142,000 last month after expanding by 212,000 in July, the Labor Department said on Friday. The jobless rate fell one-tenth of a percentage point to 6.1 percent, partly because people dropped out of the labor force. REUTERS/Brian Snyder (UNITED STATES - Tags: BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT)

Podcast Episode

The top economic issues in 2020

Stephanie Aaronson, Louise Sheiner, and Fred Dews

Friday, January 3, 2020

A general view of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) building in Washington May 27, 2015. Tax return information for about 100,000 U.S. taxpayers was illegally accessed by cyber criminals over the past four months, U.S. IRS Commissioner John Koskinen said on Tuesday, the latest in a series of data thefts that have alarmed American consumers. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst - GF10000109446

Policy 2020

Who are the rich and how might we tax them more?

David Wessel

Tuesday, October 15, 2019

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More on Federal Fiscal Policy

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Fifty years of Brookings Papers’ contributions to macroeconomics and policy

Robert E. Hall, Robert J. Gordon, and Alan Blinder

Wednesday, March 24, 2021

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The fiscal policy response to the pandemic

Christina D. Romer

Wednesday, March 24, 2021

Congruent financial regulation

Andrew Metrick and Daniel K. Tarullo

Wednesday, March 24, 2021

Biden is right: A lot of students at elite schools have student debt

Adam Looney

Wednesday, March 3, 2021

A macroeconomic analysis of a Senate Republican COVID relief package

Wendy Edelberg and Louise Sheiner

Wednesday, February 3, 2021

The macroeconomic implications of Biden’s $1.9 trillion fiscal package

Wendy Edelberg and Louise Sheiner

Thursday, January 28, 2021

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Reports

Wall Street Comes to Washington health care roundtable

Fiscal policy advice for Joe Biden and Congress

The economy and monetary policy: A conversation with Fed Vice Chair Richard Clarida

The Arjay and Frances Fearing Miller Chair in Federal Economic Policy

Senior Fellow - Economic Studies

Director - Retirement Security Project

Co-Director - Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center

The Robert S. Kerr Senior Fellow - Economic Studies

Policy Director - The Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy

Nonresident Senior Fellow - Economic Studies

Executive Director, Marriner S. Eccles Institute, University of Utah