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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 a wealth tax in the United States might increase efficiency

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Use It or Lose It: Efficiency Gains from Wealth Taxation

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Public investment is crucial to strengthening U.S. economic growth and tackling inequality

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Economic inequality matters for Federal Reserve monetary policymaking

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Low interest rates can dampen competition and hurt productivity growth

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Taxing wealth by taxing investment income: An introduction to mark-to-market taxation

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Does inflation inequality matter for monetary policy?

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The missing intercept: A sufficient statistics approach to general equilibrium effects

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How does capital investment affect workers? Evidence from bonus depreciation and matched employer-employee data

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Market design responses to inequality

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Perceived fiscal space and the case for automatic stabilizers

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Neither history nor research supports supply-side economics

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Recession Ready

Edited by Heather Boushey, Ryan Nunn, and Jay Shambaugh

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Juan Carlos Suarez Serrato

Duke University

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Max Risch

Carnegie Mellon University

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Nathan Jensen

University of Texas at Austin

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Michael Ettlinger

University of New Hampshire

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Heather Boushey

Washington Center for Equitable Growth

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