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National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan speaks with David Wessel at Brookings on the Biden administration’s international economics agenda to date and the direction of this agenda going forward. Photo credit: Ralph Alswang

International Affairs

Reactions to National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan’s Brookings speech

Tuesday, May 2, 2023

A general view of the U.S. Capitol, in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, February 9, 2023. (Graeme Sloan/Sipa USA)No Use Germany.

FixGov

Why is federal spending so hard to cut? — There’s a right way and a wrong way

Elaine Kamarck

Monday, March 13, 2023

U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks about his budget for fiscal year 2024 at the Finishing Trades Institute in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S., March 9, 2023. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein

FixGov

The president’s budget and the battle ahead

Molly E. Reynolds

Friday, March 10, 2023

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Events

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

Isabel V. Sawhill

Senior Fellow - Economic Studies, Center on Children and Families, Future of the Middle Class Initiative

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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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Adam Looney

Nonresident Senior Fellow - Economic Studies

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

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Multimedia

A volunteer holds a placard during a news conference on the climate crisis and the Inflation Reduction Act at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., U.S., August 12, 2022. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

Podcast Episode

How much will the climate provisions in the IRA cost, and what will they achieve?

Neil R. Mehrotra and Sanjay Patnaik

Thursday, April 27, 2023

Podcast Episode

Introducing Recession Remedies, a podcast about lessons learned from the economic policy response to COVID-19

David Wessel

Wednesday, April 27, 2022

Essay

Lessons learned from Economic Impact Payments during COVID-19

Michael Gelman and Melvin Stephens Jr.

Wednesday, April 27, 2022

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More on Federal Fiscal Policy

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The Inflation Reduction Act could energize the economy

John Bistline, Neil R. Mehrotra, and Catherine Wolfram

Monday, May 1, 2023

Economic implications of the climate provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act

John Bistline, Neil R. Mehrotra, and Catherine Wolfram

Wednesday, March 29, 2023

Man holding money and globe with surgical mask.

COVID credit policies around the world: Size, scope, costs, and consequences

Gee Hee Hong and Deborah Lucas

Wednesday, March 29, 2023

Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., addresses the House of Representatives after winning the 15th ballot to become Speaker of the House in the early morning hours of the fifth day of the 118th Congress at the US Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Friday, January 07, 2023. (Photo by Craig Hudson/Sipa USA)No Use Germany.

Proposed FairTax rate would add trillions to deficits over 10 years

William G. Gale and Kyle Pomerleau

Wednesday, March 1, 2023

FILE PHOTO: US President Joe Biden delivers his State of the Union Address before lawmakers in the US Capitol in Washington, DC, U.S., March 1, 2022. Jim Lo Scalzo/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo

Biden State of the Union 2023: Debt ceiling rhetoric is politically potent but often wrong

Isabel V. Sawhill

Wednesday, February 1, 2023

FILE PHOTO: The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) building is seen in Washington, U.S. September 28, 2020. REUTERS/Erin Scott/File Photo

Cutting IRS funding is a gift to America’s wealthiest tax evaders

Vanessa Williamson

Thursday, January 26, 2023

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Reports

BPEA Spring 2023 conference

Alan Blinder: ‘A Monetary and Fiscal History of the United States, 1961-2021’

BPEA Fall 2022 conference

Senior Fellow - Economic Studies, Center on Children and Families, Future of the Middle Class Initiative

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

Nonresident Senior Fellow - Economic Studies

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