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Briefing Book @briefingbook.bsky.social · 8d
Los Angeles Shows That the Private Sector Can Develop Affordable Housing www.briefingbook.info/p/los-angele...
Los Angeles Shows That the Private Sector Can Develop Affordable Housing
Survey data from Los Angeles also show that a majority of residents support new building in their neighborhoods
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Briefing Book @briefingbook.bsky.social · 23d
The Economic Case for Higher Birth Rates Is Bigger than You Think www.briefingbook.info/p/the-econom...
The Economic Case for Higher Birth Rates Is Bigger than You Think
The fiscal challenges of an aging population matter, but the innovation and progress that could be lost in a shrinking world matter even more
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Briefing Book @briefingbook.bsky.social · Sep 8
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Briefing Book Turns Two!
Looking ahead to what’s to come.
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Briefing Book @briefingbook.bsky.social · Aug 18
No, Native-Born Employment Has Not Soared www.briefingbook.info/cp/171234316
No, Native-Born Employment Has Not Soared
A newly viral chart showing native-born employment levels is a multiple-count data felony. Focus instead on the native-born unemployment rate.
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Briefing Book @briefingbook.bsky.social · Aug 4
How Cuts to the Insurance Marketplaces Will Harm Entrepreneurs www.briefingbook.info/p/how-cuts-t...
How Cuts to the Insurance Marketplaces Will Harm Entrepreneurs
Small business owners and the self-employed rely on the marketplaces, and coverage is about to become less affordable
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Briefing Book @briefingbook.bsky.social · Jul 21
Quick hits: Reactions to the Proposal by Senators Cassidy and Kaine to Rescue Social Security www.briefingbook.info/p/quick-hits...
Quick hits: Reactions to the Proposal by Senators Cassidy and Kaine to Rescue Social Security
Would the rescue work?
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Briefing Book @briefingbook.bsky.social · Jul 7
Brave New World www.briefingbook.info/p/brave-new-...
Brave New World
What financial regulatory policy wonks need to know about Silicon Valley
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Briefing Book @briefingbook.bsky.social · Jun 30
The Proliferation of Private Digital Money www.briefingbook.info/p/the-prolif...
The Proliferation of Private Digital Money
Don’t say you didn’t see this financial crisis coming.
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Briefing Book @briefingbook.bsky.social · Jun 23
The real issues facing the Social Security program aren’t inefficiency or fraud www.briefingbook.info/p/the-real-i...
The real issues facing the Social Security program aren’t inefficiency or fraud
Strengthening the program’s future will require balancing tradeoffs of increasing revenue and reducing benefits
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Briefing Book @briefingbook.bsky.social · Jun 16
Quick hits: Interesting links www.briefingbook.info/p/quick-hits...
Quick hits: Interesting links
Student loans, unions, tariffs, and more
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Briefing Book @briefingbook.bsky.social · Jun 2
The Heart of the Deal www.briefingbook.info/p/the-heart-...
The Heart of the Deal
Why the US-UK trade deal might make both countries poorer
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Briefing Book @briefingbook.bsky.social · May 26
The Long-term Dangers of Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill www.briefingbook.info/p/comparing-...
The Long-term Dangers of Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill
Analysis shows that the bill would weaken US economic, fiscal and institutional resilience
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Briefing Book @briefingbook.bsky.social · May 12
Why do some jobs pay better than others? Think about what workers do www.briefingbook.info/p/why-do-som...
Why do some jobs pay better than others? Think about what workers do
Policy matters, but don't forget the fundamentals
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Briefing Book @briefingbook.bsky.social · Apr 28
The economic and geopolitical failings of Trump’s tariffs www.briefingbook.info/p/the-econom...
The economic and geopolitical failings of Trump’s tariffs
Trump tariffs will raise U.S. prices by 5.4% and lower real income by 0.8%. They hurt close U.S. allies much more than the Chinese economy.
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Briefing Book @briefingbook.bsky.social · Apr 14
Cutting Medicaid is a Risky Move for Republicans www.briefingbook.info/p/cutting-me...
Cutting Medicaid Is A Risky Move for Republicans
Medicaid has grown by 8.46 million or 32% in Red Districts Since 2013
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Briefing Book @briefingbook.bsky.social · Mar 31
Neither stable nor genius: the misguided legislative attempt to regulate stablecoins www.briefingbook.info/p/neither-st...
Neither stable nor genius: the misguided legislative attempt to regulate stablecoins
Bills moving through Congress would leave consumers and taxpayers exposed to volatile crypto products
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Briefing Book @briefingbook.bsky.social · Mar 17
Deliberate policy decisions have disempowered workers and increased labor market inequality www.briefingbook.info/p/deliberate...
Deliberate policy decisions have disempowered workers and increased labor market inequality
The new State of Working America Data Library shows the latest trends in productivity, wages, labor markets, unionization and CEO pay
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Briefing Book @briefingbook.bsky.social · Mar 3
Highway investment probably didn’t go up under Biden - this matters for future policy design www.briefingbook.info/p/highway-in...
Highway investment probably didn’t go up under Biden – this matters for future policy design
Data sources vary, but the most relevant data source suggests that highway spending, adjusted for inflation, declined. If true, we should rethink federal infrastructure funding in times of distress.
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Briefing Book @briefingbook.bsky.social · Feb 19
Has U.S. infrastructure investment really declined? www.briefingbook.info/p/has-us-inf...
Has U.S. infrastructure investment really declined?
The devil is in the deflator, and most deflators show it has risen since 2019
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Briefing Book @briefingbook.bsky.social · Feb 17
No delusions: Bidenomics wasn’t perfect, but it did many great things (cross-posted to Briefing Book) open.substack.com/pub/econjare...
No delusions: Bidenomics wasn't perfect, but it did many great things
Responding to Jason Furman
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Briefing Book @briefingbook.bsky.social · Feb 3
Population adjustments will cause the next jobs report to be misinterpreted and misconstrued www.briefingbook.info/p/population...
Population adjustments will cause the next jobs report to be misinterpreted and misconstrued
The recent surge in immigration made the household survey especially hard to interpret, but if historical data were revised, we’d see that the labor force has grown smoothly and steadily
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Briefing Book @briefingbook.bsky.social · Jan 27
Beyond the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act: Why It’s Time to Rethink Business Taxation www.briefingbook.info/p/beyond-the...
Beyond the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act: Why It’s Time to Rethink Business Taxation
Corporate integration would make business taxes simpler, fairer, and more efficient
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Briefing Book @briefingbook.bsky.social · Jan 13
Digging into post-election partisan shifts in consumer sentiment www.briefingbook.info/p/digging-in...
Digging into post-election partisan shifts in consumer sentiment
Republicans expect to be doing better personally even as Trump’s agenda risks reigniting inflation, everyone’s top concern
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Briefing Book @briefingbook.bsky.social · Dec 30
Quick hits: Policy-relevant research at ASSA 2025 www.briefingbook.info/p/quick-hits...
Quick hits: Policy-relevant research at ASSA 2025
Weeks of it, packed into three days
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Briefing Book @briefingbook.bsky.social · Dec 16
Breaking down the budget baseline: what it means for the TCJA extension debate www.briefingbook.info/p/breaking-d...
Breaking down the budget baseline: what it means for the TCJA extension debate
Assumptions could put trillions of dollars of policy changes on the table, or not
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