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Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.

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Why Public Policy’s Core Value Should Be Equality

May 18, 2026

Equality runs deeper than economics textbooks or policy fashions suggest. Across disciplines, evidence increasingly links more equal societies to stronger well-being, greater social trust, and healthier democracies, challenging the assumption that fairness must come at the expense of prosperity or economic dynamism.

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From Fed Failures to Inflation and Stablecoins: America’s Trust Is Cracking

Feb 23, 2026

Authors Bill Bergman and Larry Feltes argue that declining public confidence in government and financial institutions is putting the U.S. economy in peril — and a crisis could come faster than you think.