Neoliberal economic policies have isolated us from one another and crunched the middle class.

Tara Dawson McGuinness of New America's New Practice Lab envisions a middle-out economic era that prioritizes families & connection in a recent Democracy Journal piece.

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In his latest piece in Democracy Journal, Civic Ventures Senior Fellow David Goldstein names neoliberalism as the root cause of Boeing's latest quality debacle.
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'Farm Bill of Goods' - U.S. agriculture policy is underwriting an ecological catastrophe: tinyurl.com/54rs29sn Democracy Journal Chesapeake Climate

Listen to Heather Boushey and myself discuss middle out economics- moderated by Michael Tomasky at the Middle-out economics conference in DC last week

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Today’s pod features a live conversation with Heather Boushey from the Democracy Journal conference in DC discussing the Biden administration's policies prioritizing working families and promoting economic growth from the middle out.

🎧Listen here: bit.ly/LIVEfromDC

This week, Pitchfork Economics is airing a live conversation with Heather Boushey from the recent Democracy Journal conference exploring the policies the Biden administration is pursuing that promote economic growth from the middle out.

Listen at the following link: bit.ly/LIVEfromDC

RIP to Bernard Weisberger, and read this thread from his collaborator Marshall. Their co-authored essay for us is still one of our favorites in the journal's history.

I wrote this in the summer of 2021.

“The Fed’s conventional medicine of higher interest rates is not a good tool for combating rental inflation. In fact, it could be directly counterproductive…by making new investment more costly…”

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It was great to chat with Todd N. Tucker at Democracy Journal’s ‘Redefining the Center’ conference. To build a stronger, more equitable economy for workers and families, policymakers must make robust public investments in both physical AND social infrastructure.

Strong words from Celinda Lake at the Democracy Journal conference, based on her research: 'People think it's insane to raise interest rates when prices are already going up. As one person in a focus group told me, 'What neighborhood do these people live in?''

I wrote about the CHIPS Act deal with TSMC. The company was clearly sandbagging and too many wonks took it as proof that America can't build anything. The administration stood strong and made a pretty good deal on balance, though there are a few concerns.
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For too long corporate lawyers and economists have been running the show on competition policy, dominating antirust law to favor their own policy preferences.

But as Sandeep Vaheesan explores in Democracy Journal, we are on the seeds of an antitrust revival democracyjournal.org/magazine/72/se…

'Only alliances win. That is the lasting lesson of the neoliberals,' Felicia Wong writes in Democracy Journal.

'We can take the reins of power, too, if we continue to build stronger institutions and a popular movement for a more democratic economy.'

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Neoliberal economic policies have isolated us from one another and crunched the middle class.

Tara Dawson McGuinness of New America's New Practice Lab envisions a middle-out economic era that prioritizes families & connection in a recent Democracy Journal piece.

🗞️ bit.ly/491gkXG

Addressing infrastructure challenges, tight monetary policy, China's influence, supply-demand mismatches, and other challenges inherent in the #IRA will help us reshape America's trajectory toward a sustainable future.

Read more in Democracy Journal: bit.ly/49ZgArx

Thanks to Michael Tomasky and the Democracy Journal team for giving me the time and space to lay out some (angry) thoughts on US farm policy. Please read and share! democracyjournal.org/magazine/72/fa…

“Without the [American Rescue Plan], the US would likely be enduring the kind of sluggish recovery that many other advanced economies are facing—with serious, long-lasting harms to American workers and businesses alike.” Bharat Ramamurti in @demjournal. buff.ly/3TAb1Km

'An Economy with Ethics.' Fabulous piece by Tara Dawson McGuinness in Democracy Journal. democracyjournal.org/magazine/72/an…. 'The highest achievement of the next economic order will be to put the market back in its place as a subordinate contributor to human flourishing, and not the other way around.'

A more active industrial policy is not just good for the economy, jobs & the climate, it's ultimately good for democracy itself.

In his Democracy Journal essay & Pitchfork Economics segment, Todd N. Tucker explores how democracy could be connected to economic policy: twitter.com/PitchforkEcon/…