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

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Labor Day 2025: The Great Crash (of the Economists)

Aug 29, 2025

Contrary to what many economic models suggest, salaries aren’t constantly recalibrated based on skills or technology. They follow the economy and politics—and common sense: hire when needed, promote from within, and slow hiring when budgets tighten.

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Currency Wars, Social Class, and the Republican Dilemma Over Medicaid

May 8, 2025

Faced with a shrinking list of options to trim the budget, Republicans are now eyeing Medicaid - but will that fly among Trump supporters?

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Distributional and Macroeconomic Effects of Trump 2.0

May 5, 2025

The most likely outcome of the second Trump administration is a recession and an exacerbation of inequalities, and a further degradation of the living standards of working and middle-class Americans.

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How Climate Denial is Fueling a U.S. Homeowners Insurance Crisis and Risking a 2008-Style Financial Meltdown

Feb 13, 2025

New research reveals that rising insurance costs, reckless building, regulatory inaction, and big banks’ fossil fuel investments are driving a dangerous cycle that jeopardizes homeowners — and financial stability for everyone.

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Rebooting Antitrust’s Normative Economic Theory

Dec 16, 2024

Industrial organization economists have caused antitrust to cling to an antiquated and disproven economic theory.

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A Heart Attack and Stroke Drug That Saves Lives Exists—But American Patients May Be Left Behind by Profit-Driven Healthcare

Dec 12, 2024

Dr. Victor Gurewich, a researcher and Harvard Medical School faculty member since 1965, discovered a breakthrough drug treatment for heart attacks and strokes with the potential to save millions, but institutional resistance and a U.S. healthcare system that puts profits over patients are keeping it out of reach.

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Climate Change and Macroeconomic Models: Why General Equilibrium Models Do Not Work

Oct 28, 2024

The limitations of the benchmark E-DSGE framework and how these limitations restrict the ability of this framework to meaningfully capture the macroeconomics of the climate crisis.