Taxes and Public Spending

Ryan Cummings, SIEPR chief of staff, describes in Time.com some core challenges behind President Trump's pledge to pay most Americans a portion of the money raised by U.S. tariffs.

A New York Times analysis of Manhattan's congestion pricing program has so far been a huge success cites research by SIEPR's Shoshana Vasserman and Hunt Allcott identifying some of the early impacts on travel speeds and air quality.

The Fed's success also depends on its ability to keep the U.S. financial system strong. In Barron's, SIEPR Senior Fellow Amit Seru recommends 8 ways the Fed could get that job done.

Bloomberg Opinion highlights new research from SIEPR Senior Fellow Michael Boskin finding that economic factors, like inflation and per capita GDP, determine levels of trust in government more than anything else.

Daniel Hornung, SIEPR policy fellow, warns in Reuters that falling consumer confidence sends a warning about the potential economic harms of a prolonged government shutdown.

The Wall Street Journal highlights, given the government shutdown, a monthly jobs report produced by SIEPR Senior Fellow Erik Brynjolfsson's Digital Economy Lab and ADP.

In a CNN interview, Mahoney explains how Trump tariffs, the threat of more to come, and the uncertainty they cause will eventually harm economic growth in the U.S. and the world.

Jared Bernstein, a Distinguished Policy Fellow at SIEPR, explains in a New York Times guest essay why Trump’s economic policies have turned him from a budget dove to a budget hawk.

Neale Mahoney tells ABC News that, despite recent declines in the inflation rate, that “there’s a rock solid body of evidence" that Trump tariffs will raise consumer prices.

The new field of ‘geoeconomics’ offers a guide for the perplexed. Financial Times highlights a new paper from Senior Fellow Matteo Maggiori that outlines the growing field.