John Cassidy

These days, Presidential Conventions are so scripted that they rarely produce any real surprises, but they still provide an opportunity to take stock of where the two major parties stand relative to each other and to the past. At the […]

A few weeks ago, Jared Bernstein, the chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, gave a speech in Washington about what he termed the “almost round trip” of inflation, which went from 1.7 per cent in February, 2021,