
Veronique de Rugy is the George Gibbs Chair in Political Economy and a senior…
Claims of a ‘hollowed-out’ center are difficult to square with data showing an overwhelmingly upward directional movement.

The outrage is justified because Americans are getting a look at what happens when pushing public money out the door matters more than verifying the eligibility of the recipients.

If the rich genuinely believe they should contribute more, they are free to do so today. The Treasury accepts voluntary payments.

After decades of slowed productivity growth, many Americans — especially younger ones — no longer feel confident their work will be rewarded or that the future will be more abundant than the past.

Social insurance programs are compatible with a basic safety net, but what we have now is a slow-motion generational fleecing.

One likes price floors, the other likes rent control. They’re both waging the same ‘war on prices,’ as one analyst puts it.


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