Jared Bernstein
Washington Post
Washington, DC, United States
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I’m joining Biden’s economics team. Here’s some of what I’ll be thinking about.
After scribbling about economic policy here for a few years, I'm signing off to try to put it all into practice. → Read More
The limits of scarcity
The economic constraint is not scarcity of resources. It’s scarcity of bold ideas and the political will to bring them to fruition. → Read More
The economics of government debt at this unique moment
Low real interest rates in tandem with critical needs make this a good time to use fiscal policy to meet pressing economic needs. → Read More
This precarious economic moment: Diagnosis and prescription
Consumer spending was supported by government transfers and savings, but they’re fading and the economy is downshifting. What happens next is up to us. → Read More
The return of austerity politics
If conservatives ignore fiscal austerity when they’re in power but Democrats embrace it when they take control, then conservatives will consistently meet the demands of their constituents while Democrats consistently fail to do so. → Read More
Trump’s triple failure: Virus control, stimulus and the trade deficit
President Trump waged a trade war and lost. → Read More
Why the U.S. economy just downshifted, and how to reverse that
The bad news: There are four reasons the U.S. economy just downshifted. The good news: Public policy can repair the damage. → Read More
What Trump’s and Biden’s competing economic agendas reveal about the economy
New studies find that Biden’s economic plans beat Trump’s in terms of jobs and growth. That’s because it takes policy to get to full employment. → Read More
Thanks to Trump’s actions, millions lose health coverage
Trump administration actions against the Affordable Care Act have cost millions their health coverage. → Read More
Miracles are not a plan
For the first time in 160 years, the Republican Party failed to produce a policy platform. Big mistake, especially in 2020. → Read More
The Senate Is on Vacation While Americans Starve
Thirty million households didn’t have enough food in the last week. Only the Fed has acted forcefully. → Read More
Families need a lifeline, but Trump’s regulator tosses them an anchor
When families desperately need help, President Trump’s mortgage regulator decided to take cash out of their pockets. → Read More
Trump’s executive orders underline all the failures of his administration
The goal of this administration has never been to solve problems. It has been to use its prodigious reality-bending skills to create the impression that problems are being solved. → Read More
We can’t manage uncertainty and risk without a functioning government
We need a federal government that reduces, not amplifies, uncertainty. → Read More
Trump’s favorite story about economic recovery doesn’t make sense
Here's how Trump plans to try to hide the fact that his response to the virus has been a disaster. We must not let him get away with it. → Read More
Yes, the federal debt will be huge. But that shouldn’t stop government from doing what needs to be done.
The public debt will be historically high on the other side of the crisis. Democrats must not let that fact block their progressive agenda. → Read More
Why our health response is so much worse than our middling economic response
Our failure to control the virus is squandering the time we bought with our robust economic response. → Read More
How to make bad times — and good times — better for the most vulnerable
It is essential to recognize the many ways in which structural racism and inequality are playing out in the crisis. → Read More
The coronavirus is teaching us four big lessons. Will we listen?
The virus is teaching us that markets fail, capitalism depends on functional governance, we must pool risks and reality matters. → Read More
The jobs crisis reveals our health system’s fatal flaws — and why we need reform
Congress and the Trump administration have legislated important measures to help the millions hurt by this crisis. But so far, health coverage has gotten short shrift. → Read More