And why they should pause interest rate hikes.

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Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell at a meeting of the Financial Stability Oversight Council in July 2023. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)


** Supply Is Driving Disinflation
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The Federal Reserve will announce next week whether its aggressive interest rate hikes will continue.

They shouldn’t continue, Roosevelt’s Mike Konczal argues on a new episode ([link removed]) of The Indicator from Planet Money.

As his research shows, the primary driver of inflation has been on the supply side, rather than the demand side the Fed is targeting.

“A lot of the slowdown in inflation has happened basically because we’ve been completing the reopening, because supply chains have been sorted out,” Konczal explains on the podcast.

To avoid a recession, “. . . the Fed should absolutely pause, and they hopefully are going to do that.”

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** A Progressive Take on Permitting Reform
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The recent debt ceiling deal included a suite of “permitting reforms” advocated by Sen. Joe Manchin, but which are unlikely to eliminate the true roadblocks to the renewable energy transition.

This week, Roosevelt hosted A Progressive Take on Permitting Reform ([link removed]) , a webcast building on Johanna Bozuwa and Dustin Mulvaney’s recent paper ([link removed]) to explore how a principle-driven toolkit can help balance speed in renewable deployment with democratic and community participation.

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Banks Provide a Public Service. Let’s Make Them Public Utilities. [co-authored by Roosevelt Fellow Lev Menand] [paywall] ([link removed]) - Washington Post

Why a 4-Day Workweek Is on the Table for Autoworkers ([link removed]) - NPR

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