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Understanding the Role of the IMF in the World Today

Posted July 16, 202300:28:26

Founded with the mandate of overseeing a stable international currency system in the Bretton Woods era, over the last decades, the International Monetary...

Taxing Corporations: Efficiency, Equity, and Revenue

Posted July 9, 202300:26:18

While much of the recent debate about the U.S. debt ceiling centered on spending cuts, debt and deficits can also be addressed through raising revenue....

Tracing the Impact of Early Popular Media on Racial Hate in the U.S.

Posted July 2, 202300:20:26

D.W. Griffith's 1915 film The Birth of a Nation, a fictional portrayal of the KKK's founding, is America's first blockbuster. It's also a film laden...

Gauging the Costs of Cuts to the U.S. Social Safety Net

Posted June 25, 202300:26:05

The recent U.S. debt-ceiling negotiations included demands for cutting funding for Medicaid, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, and the...

On American Debt, Inflation, and Industrial Policy

Posted June 11, 202300:39:39

EconoFact Chats regularly hosts a panel interview with the distinguished economic journalists Binyamin Appelbaum of The New York Times, Scott Horsley...