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A strong economy is one that operates at its potential and delivers a high standard of living to the entire population. Monetary, fiscal, and tax policy all play important roles in determining the level and distribution of income, wealth, and other, broader measures of economic wellbeing. Equitable Growth promotes research to improve our understanding of how these policy tools can ensure the economy works for everyone, and reduce the impact of economic downturns.

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Factsheet: What the research says about taxing pass-through businesses

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Closing the billionaire borrowing loophole would strengthen the progressivity of the U.S. tax code

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Doubling down on cuts to the IRS is bad for the federal budget and for tax fairness in the United States

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Why measuring inflation is surprisingly challenging

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What are the distributional effects of monetary policy?

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Why the mismeasurement explanation for the U.S. productivity slowdown misses the mark

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Giving credit to the unemployed

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Why it makes sense to look at nominal wage growth right now

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The more elastic you are, the less you lose

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Cash [demand] rules everything around us

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Context may be everything when it comes to the Phillips curve

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The corporate savings glut and the economic possibilities of the future

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The Federal Reserve and awareness of racial inequality

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Recession Ready

Edited by Heather Boushey, Ryan Nunn, and Jay Shambaugh

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Experts on the issue

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Xavier Jaravel

London School of Economics

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Karen Dynan

Harvard University

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Jacob Robbins

University of Illinois at Chicago

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Michael Ettlinger

University of New Hampshire

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Michael Barr

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

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