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An advisory sign urges motorists to stay home on Interstate 84 near the Providence Medical Center in Portland, Ore., on March 26, 2020. Oregon is enforcing a statewide executive order to stay home except for essential needs as more extreme social distancing measures aim to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) and flatten the curve. (Photo by Alex Milan Tracy/Sipa USA)No Use UK. No Use Germany.

Up Front

Careful or careless? Perspectives on the CARES Act

Grace Enda, William G. Gale, and Claire Haldeman

Friday, March 27, 2020

A trader looks at stock prices on a screen while working on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange shortly before the closing bell in New York August 26, 2015. Wall Street was sharply higher on Wednesday while European shares and commodities prices fell as investors balanced strong U.S. economic data and interest rate comments with fears about China's slowing economy. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson

Policy 2020

What is a financial transaction tax?

Aaron Klein

Friday, March 27, 2020

Up Front

Hutchins Roundup: Unemployment insurance, information channels, and more.

Manuel Alcalá Kovalski, Jeffrey Cheng, and David Wessel

Thursday, March 26, 2020

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Experts

Jay Shambaugh

Director - The Hamilton Project

Senior Fellow - Economic Studies

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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 production line employee works at the AMES Companies factory in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

Global Trade

Sen. Pat Toomey on why the USMCA falls short

Pat Toomey and David Dollar

Friday, December 20, 2019

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U.S. Economy

The federal government’s coronavirus response

What’s the Fed doing in response to the COVID-19 crisis? What more could it do?

Stephanie Aaronson on BPEA and the importance of diversity in economics

Brookings experts on the $2 trillion coronavirus response package

Reports

Congress is about to give a student-loan tax break that will only benefit the best-off borrowers

Stimulus steps the US should take to reduce regional economic damages from the COVID-19 recession

We should bail out airlines during the coronavirus pandemic—but on taxpayers’ terms

Are medical care prices still declining?

A comparison of deflators for telecommunications services output

Blog Posts

Careful or careless? Perspectives on the CARES Act

What is a financial transaction tax?

Hutchins Roundup: Unemployment insurance, information channels, and more.

Events

Webinar: COVID-19 and the economy

CANCELED – Tightrope: Americans reaching for hope

If the economy is doing so well, why are so many struggling?

Related Books

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Experts

Jay Shambaugh

Director - The Hamilton Project

Senior Fellow - Economic Studies

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

Adam Looney

Joseph A. Pechman Senior Fellow - Economic Studies, Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center

Multimedia

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

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Sen. Pat Toomey on why the USMCA falls short