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inflation

Federal Budget and Economy: TaxVox
As of this morning, yields on 10-year Treasury bonds stood at 1.33 percent. The yield on TIPS bonds–which are adjusted for inflation–was negative. These astonishingly...
September 23, 2021Alan J. AuerbachWilliam G. Gale
Federal Budget and Economy: TaxVox
The recent passing of former Federal Reserve Chair Paul Volcker serves as an important reminder of his critical role in ending stagflation in the late...
December 16, 2019C. Eugene Steuerle
Federal Budget and Economy: TaxVox
We now have a full year of data about the state of the US economy since President Trump signed the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs...
March 4, 2019Howard GleckmanAravind Boddupalli
: TaxVox
The Trump Administration reportedly is thinking about using its executive authority to redefine capital gains so only returns from the sale of assets in excess...
July 31, 2018Leonard E. Burman
Federal Budget and Economy: TaxVox
President Trump, who sees himself as the toughest guy in the room, is, along with his GOP allies in Congress, disarming the federal government’s ability...
February 14, 2018Howard Gleckman
Federal Budget and Economy: TaxVox
Changing the way government adjusts spending and taxes for inflation is one of those issues that continues to hang around the edges of the budget...
March 5, 2013Howard Gleckman
Federal Budget and Economy: TaxVox
President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner may be close to agreeing on a plan that, among other things, would revise the way government programs...
December 18, 2012Howard Gleckman