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March 2025

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
1
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
 • 
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…
 • 
Zachary Liscow
1

February 2025

Has U.S. infrastructure investment really declined?
The devil is in the deflator, and most deflators show it has risen since 2019
 • 
Ernie Tedeschi
 and 
Eric Van Nostrand
1
No delusions: Bidenomics wasn't perfect, but it did many great things
Responding to Jason Furman
Published on Jared’s Substack • 
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…
 • 
Jed Kolko
7

January 2025

December 2024

Quick hits: Policy-relevant research at ASSA 2025
Weeks of it, packed into three days
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
 • 
Elena Patel
2
Quick hits: Policies to think about as the administration changes
Trade, civil service protections, Medicaid waivers, retirement security, the Paperwork Reduction Act, and more
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