
Live from Brooklyn Public Library: How Democrats Can Win in 2020
Mar 3, 2020 , et al. take a hard look at widening inequality in the United States, and ask which policy proposals advanced by the 2020 Democratic candidates best address it.
Anand Giridharadas is the author of Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World, as well as The True American: Murder and Mercy in Texas, and India Calling: An Intimate Portrait of a Nation’s Remaking. He is an on-air political analyst for NBC News and MSNBC, and a visiting scholar at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University.
Huge fiscal and monetary stimulus programs have sparked a growing debate about whether advanced economies may sooner or later experience the sort of rapid price growth last seen a generation ago. While stimulus advocates point to current weak demand and the public’s deeply ingrained low-inflation expectations, anxious hawks fear that a new and dangerous global inflationary consensus may be taking hold.