A debt‑to‑wealth lens shows how wealth differences and inequality shape fiscal capacity and strategies for reducing government debt.

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In 2016, a consortium of journalists exposed how a global elite including associates of Russian President Vladimir Putin, the King of Saudi Arabia, drug dealers, and others hid their wealth (legally a...

The rise of large, complex partnerships in the real estate and finance industries has meant an explosion in tax avoidance strategies.

Jeff and Scott chat with David Mitchel, a Senior Fellow at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth, about the small business stock exclusion, recent changes to it, and an article that David wrote w...

Distributional weighting is feasible for many federal agencies and nonprofit organizations and is a tool for overcoming bias against lower-income individuals.

A look at the continuing impacts of artificial intelligence on the U.S. labor market and avenues for future exploration.

The federal budget deficit was $1.8 trillion in fiscal year 2025, CBO estimates, $8 billion less than the shortfall recorded during fiscal year 2024.

States should decouple from the federal Qualified Small Business Stock (QSBS) exemption.

Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

New research shows how cuts to Medicaid and other social programs negatively impact local economies as well as program beneficiaries.

This week on Facing the Future, we heard from two tax experts with different ideological perspectives who have been following congressional action on the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA). David S. M...

The legislation misunderstands how economic growth actually works.

A breakdown of two applications of the funny tax rate that imply implausibly high tax rates for the rich and highlight U.S. economic inequality.

There’s one item fiscal hawks won’t touch: a politically popular business tax deduction that has been widely criticized for lacking broad economic benefit.

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The rise of right-wing populism in the United States and other advanced democracies and crafting an agenda based on solidarity, identity, and purpose.