Congressional Republicans’ tax plan, most economists agree, will hurt America's poor and middle class while causing the fiscal and external deficits to soar. PS writers examine the plan’s likely impact on the US economy and American politics.
Jan 3, 2017 , et al. do not expect corporate-tax cuts paired with tariffs to improve US competitiveness.
Jan 30, 2017 describes four key components of the system's first major changes in three decades.
Apr 10, 2017 expects the GOP's tax-reform plan, with its yawning deficits and fanciful math, to end in failure.
Jul 27, 2017 offers a primer on the Trump administration's coming effort to redistribute wealth upward.
Aug 4, 2017 assesses the prospects for the US economy and economic policy at the president's six-month mark.
Aug 29, 2017 is optimistic that proposed Republican legislation will boost capital formation and economic growth.
China has begun to build a parallel international order, centered on itself. If the European Union aids in its construction – even just by positioning itself on the fault line between China and the United States – it risks toppling key pillars of its own edifice and, eventually, collapsing altogether.
Now that the old rules governing macroeconomic cycles no longer seem to apply, it remains to be seen what might cause the next recession in the United States. But if recent history is our guide, the biggest threat stems not from the US Federal Reserve or any one sector of the economy, but rather from the White House.
Amid much discussion of the challenges facing the Chinese economy, the line-up of usual suspects typically excludes the most worrying scenario of all: popular unrest. While skeptics would contend that widespread protest against the regime and its policies is unlikely, events elsewhere suggest that China is not immune.
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