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The Hidden Traps in Auto Loans
How the dark side of consumer finance prioritizes profit over people.
Featuring Thomas Herndon
Industry lobbyists vehemently oppose Medicare drug price negotiations. However, physician-scientist Fred Ledley and economist William Lazonick debunk their arguments.
Video
The Hidden Traps in Auto Loans
How the dark side of consumer finance prioritizes profit over people.
Featuring Thomas Herndon
Article | Health
How Should the Government Negotiate Medicare Drug Prices? A Guide for the Perplexed
The “maximum fair price” for a drug must not only be equitable to those with unmet medical needs who may benefit from the use of the drug but also provide equitable returns on both public and private sector investments.
By Fred Ledley
Article | Inequality & Distribution, Race
Can Baby Bonds Fight the Wealth Gap and Racial Inequality? Connecticut Aims to Find Out.
Connecticut is the first state to fund and enact a baby bonds program, inspiring more states to create their own plans. Can it make a difference?
Working Paper | Health
By Edward W. Zhou, Paula G. Chaves da Silva, Debbie Quijada, and Fred Ledley
Article | Macroeconomics
It was a mistake to accept a ‘reference price’-determination process for basic commodities led by finance
Article | Government & Politics
By Thomas Ferguson, Jie Chen, Paul Jorgensen, and Matthias Lalisse
Article | Inequality & Distribution
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A fair start for every child? Let’s make it reality.
Featuring Darrick Hamilton
Working Paper | Health
The empirical analysis of public sector investments and the health value created by the drugs selected for Medicare price negotiations provides a cost basis for the assessment of the maximum fair price.
By Edward W. Zhou, Paula G. Chaves da Silva, Debbie Quijada, and Fred Ledley
Working Paper | Macroeconomics
It is not just all about banking system liquidity
Working Paper | History, Macroeconomics
Read in the context of his time, Bagehot’s book Lombard Street appears as an attempt above all to reveal the dynamic of globalization when global money was sterling.
Working Paper | Inequality & Distribution, Labor
Research on labor market experience does not explain the link between the volatility low-wage workers encounter and their earnings and it leaves open numerous pressing questions, such as what, if anything, can be done to reduce racial and ethnic differences in economic well-being.
Working Paper | Inequality & Distribution, Private Debt
Examining the crucial role of poverty and inequality in shaping household indebtedness.
Working Paper | Macroeconomics
The re-emergence of inflation threw the ‘science of monetary policy’ off the rails. Do the new tweaks to the theory work?
Feb 20, 2024
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