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The Proliferation of Private Digital Money
Don’t say you didn’t see this financial crisis coming.
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Jeffery Zhang
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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Gopi Shah Goda
 and 
Lily Nevo
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Quick hits: Interesting links
Student loans, unions, tariffs, and more
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The Heart of the Deal
Why the US-UK trade deal might make both countries poorer
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Thomas Baranga
 and 
Judd Cramer
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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Wes Yin
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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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Kevin Rinz
, 
Chris Bangert-Drowns
, and 
Chiara Chanoi
2
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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Kyle Meng
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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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Michael Geruso
, 
Neale Mahoney
, and 
Daniel Posthumus
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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Graham Steele
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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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Josh Bivens
, 
Elise Gould
, 
Hilary Wething
, and 
Ben Zipperer
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…
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Zachary Liscow
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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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Ernie Tedeschi
 and 
Eric Van Nostrand
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