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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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Inequality and aggregate demand

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Income inequality and aggregate demand in the United States

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How the rise of market power in the United States may explain some macroeconomic puzzles

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Kaldor and Piketty’s facts: The rise of monopoly power in the United States

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TOPICS: Monetary Policy
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Can the financial benefit of lobbying be quantified?

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TOPICS: Monetary Policy
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Lobbying with Lawyers: Financial Market Evidence for Banks’ Influence on Rulemaking

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TOPICS: Monetary Policy
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Heather Boushey: SiriusXM Radio interview about economic inequality and the new tax law

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Heather Boushey: “The tax bill should’ve been called The Inequality Exacerbation Act”

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The Tax Foundation’s treatment of the estate tax in its macroeconomic model

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Ten years after the beginning of the Great Recession, is it time to abandon the natural rate hypothesis?

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TOPICS: Monetary Policy
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U.S. corporate tax cuts and wage growth

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Tax legislation is no place for paid family leave

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Recession Ready

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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