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It’s an effort to manufacture consent for a dirty deal whose elements are poorly understood by most U.S. voters—through little fault of their own.

The idea of relying on the basic supply and demand model from intro macro runs into a wall anytime you have a market of price setters rather than price takers.

Given how much our antitrust enforcers have achieved for the American people in recent years, let’s hope the Maryland governor is wrong about which direction Kamala Harris is trending.

What do Jason Furman and Nate Silver have in common? Thinking Gambling addicts have a special insight into politics and the 2024 election.

Jonathan Chait has been using his column in New York Mag’s Intelligencer to criticize the Biden administration’s populist modifications of Obamaism and warn Vice President Harris against continuing Biden’s domestic economic agenda. In Chait’s piece Kamala Harris’s Economic Plan: Good Politics, Meh Policy, he joined the chorus of pundits lambasting Harris’ policies to take on corporate power.

The last time she ran for president, Kamala Harris gave a 16-minute interview with then-Mother Jones reporter Rebecca Leber about her vision for tackling the climate crisis. Harris brought evident comfort and energy to the topic, but most striking was the framing to which she returned again and again: corporate accountability.

Donald Trump and his Department of Justice consistently made a mockery of the law throughout his four years in power. And while their laughable reasoning and indefensible positions were struck down at a historic rate, many cases were still waiting for Biden. The new administration tossed out a handful immediately but an alarming number remain, either in some form of pause or advancing forward with the Biden administration adopting Trump’s position.

All the wrong people hate the proposal, and that’s a good thing!

In response to the lawsuit filed today by the Department of Justice Antitrust Division and eight states, the Revolving Door Project issued the following statement.

Before Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell talks monetary policy at the Jackson Hole Economic Symposium, RDP wants to remind people how awful Powell has been—on interest rates, climate risk, and financial regulation.