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The Budget Lab at Yale is a non-partisan policy research center dedicated to providing in-depth analysis of federal proposals for the American economy.

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@The_Budget_Lab
The Budget Lab
6 months
The Budget Lab at Yale has launched! Our non-partisan policy research center will provide in-depth analysis for federal policy proposals impacting the American economy. The Budget Lab aims to fill a critical gap in policy evaluation. Read more:
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@The_Budget_Lab
The Budget Lab
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New analysis released today by  @The_Budget_Lab analyzes a plan aimed at simplifying and reducing the individual income tax code, fundamental tax reform can reduce the amount of time spent filing taxes without losing revenue or reducing progressivity.
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@The_Budget_Lab
The Budget Lab
6 months
Budget Lab Director of Economics @ernietedeschi spoke with @NPR 's @HorsleyScott about the Federal Reserve and the US Economy. "What's underpinning the Fed's concern and mystery is economic strength, not economic weakness" - Ernie Tedeschi
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@The_Budget_Lab
The Budget Lab
5 months
Read @petercoy @nytimes latest column that cites the new Budget Lab report from @ernietedeschi "Political Risks to the U.S. Safe Harbor Premium" Peter Coy's column:
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@The_Budget_Lab
The Budget Lab
5 months
@ErnieTedeschi spoke to @HansNichols @axios about wage growth and the US economy. "The good news is that wage growth has been outpacing inflation for more than a year. But it will take more of that before consumer attitudes about prices brighten back up."
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@The_Budget_Lab
The Budget Lab
4 months
“This time really may be different. The unemployment rate may be drifting higher because it is settling into its natural rate,” @ernietedeschi told @NickTimiraos @WSJ
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@The_Budget_Lab
The Budget Lab
4 months
@ernietedeschi spoke with @RichardRubinDC for his recent @WSJ article: “We have to think about the unforeseen consequences of this,” said Ernie Tedeschi, a former Biden administration economist who is now at Yale University’s Budget Lab. “Money finds a way to game the system.”
@RichardRubinDC
Richard Rubin
4 months
New from us: Trump is proposing to make tips non-taxable. That would likely mean... more requests for tips.
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@The_Budget_Lab
The Budget Lab
6 months
Director of Economics at The Budget Lab @ernietedeschi spoke with Rogé Karma for his article in @TheAtlantic "The Inflation Plateau" “The excess inflation we have left is in a few esoteric areas that reflect past price increases" - Ernie Tedeschi
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@The_Budget_Lab
The Budget Lab
3 months
"One of my worries is that an increase in US risk might punch above its weight," listen to  @ernietedeschi 's  discussion on full employment, US safe harbor premium and the current path of R-star on  @Macro_Musings with  @DavidBeckworth and  @mercatus .
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@The_Budget_Lab
The Budget Lab
4 months
Ahead of CPI tomorrow, read @marthagimbel 's new @The_Budget_Lab commentary “Where Is Inflation Heading? Yearly Changes May Be Deceiving."
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@The_Budget_Lab
The Budget Lab
4 months
The analysis is based on a recent @BrookingsInst research brief by @WilliamGale2 , which proposes a series of tax reform options designed to simplify the tax code, increase tax progressivity, and be revenue-neutral in 2023.
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@The_Budget_Lab
The Budget Lab
4 months
Associate Director of Policy Analysis @riccoja released a new @The_Budget_Lab analysis, “Pandemic-Era Trends in Estate Tax Collections.” Read it here:
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@The_Budget_Lab
The Budget Lab
5 months
"Martha Gimbel, a former economic advisor in the White House, notes that the ten-year budget window - the main time frame for evaluating fiscal effects - is biased against investments in children and the environment."
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@The_Budget_Lab
The Budget Lab
4 months
@The_Budget_Lab  estimates that the proposed reforms would reduce the average time it takes to file individual income taxes by at least 2.5 hours (a 20 percent decline) and as many as 7 hours (a decline of half), depending on design details and whether TCJA is extended.
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@The_Budget_Lab
The Budget Lab
5 months
Link to full Budget Lab report:
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@The_Budget_Lab
The Budget Lab
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@The_Budget_Lab
The Budget Lab
4 months
@The_Budget_Lab analysis shows these suggested fundamental tax reforms would increase the estimated share of tax returns that could be pre-filled from about one third to nearly half.
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The Budget Lab
5 months
Link to full Budget Lab report:
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@The_Budget_Lab
The Budget Lab
6 months
Gimbel: "I would become a lot more concerned if political dysfunction and political risk increases. When you've seen some of the credit ratings agencies downgrade U.S. debt, one of the things they've mentioned is political risk in the United States."
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@The_Budget_Lab
The Budget Lab
5 months
"US enjoys a safe harbor investment premium—a value that investors place on US safety, soundness and stability. Even a relatively modest move in risk premia would have profound implications for the US."
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@The_Budget_Lab
The Budget Lab
4 months
@marthagimbel provides a Jobs Day preview "Prime-Age Employment: Flashing Yellow - or a Sign of a Soft Landing"
@marthagimbel
Martha Gimbel
4 months
As improvement in the employment rate for prime-age workers has slowed markedly in recent months – it’s time to start asking – is this a sign of post-pandemic normalization, an economy heading towards full employment, and a soft landing…or of something more worrisome? 1/
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@The_Budget_Lab
The Budget Lab
5 months
@marthagimbel on the Tax Chats podcast with @ScottDyreng and @JeffLHoopes to discuss the launch of @The_Budget_Lab , our recent reports on TCJA and CTC, and even the Budget Lab dogs! Listen here:
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@The_Budget_Lab
The Budget Lab
6 months
Natasha Sarin's latest Washington Post op ed: "Policy makers should grapple with not just the costs- but also the benefits - of investment." That's why The Budget Lab has launched aimed at providing this needed analysis.
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@The_Budget_Lab
The Budget Lab
5 months
Great to see the work of @ernietedeschi @The_Budget_Lab on US "safe harbor premium" in the newly released  @GUFinPolicy paper.
@GUFinPolicy
GU Psaros Center for Financial Markets and Policy
5 months
. @ernietedeschi wrote about R* – the "most important unobservable economic concept at the moment." Tedeschi explains the long and short-term run of the natural rate of interest and theorizes about the effects of the pandemic, the impact of fiscal and political risks, and why it
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@The_Budget_Lab
The Budget Lab
6 months
@Neil_Irwin writes about The Budget Lab’s initial analysis, which examines both the Tax Cut and Jobs Act (TCJA) and the Child Tax Credit (CTC).
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