David Wessel
@davidmwessel
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Director, Hutchins Center on Fiscal & Monetary Policy, Brookings. My latest book "Only the Rich Can Play," the story of Opportunity Zones.
Washington, D.C.
Joined April 2009
The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) at 50: Past, present, and future. summary of a Hutchins Center @BrookingsInst conference with academic and government experts.
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RT @LHSummers: I have to say I have been struck that the prominent members of the financial community have had more to say being critical o….
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Tracking Trump's actions on tariffs, the environment, immigration, and more | Brookings
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It's hard to keep up with Trump so we've compiled a list of the websites tracking Trump’s actions on tariffs, the environment, immigration, and more Hutchins Center @BrookingsInst.
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RT @MattAFiedler: New data from CMS show that many individual market enrollees (35%) had no claims in 2024. That’s led some (eg @WSJ and @B….
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Kick off football season with an offer you're not gonna wanna miss on FanDuel!.
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Congrats to the Newsom media team!!.
MANY PEOPLE ARE SAYING — AND I AGREE — THAT I, GAVIN C. NEWSOM (AMERICA’S FAVORITE GOVERNOR) DESERVE THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE. WHY? BECAUSE OF THE “MOST INCREDIBLE MAPS IN THE HISTORY OF MAPPING” (EVEN COLUMBUS). THESE MAPS WILL END THE “VERY RIGGED” ELECTIONS, MAKE AMERICA GREAT.
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RT @D_A_Irwin: Story of America really. And a reminder that tariffs are a tax on American producers
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Warfighters Chamber of Commerce meeting at Pocono Mountains on Labor Day. When the NJ Veterans attending heard NJ Law Against Discrimination("NJLAD") includes LGBTQIA+, transgender individuals, and even on hairstyles as a protected classes but does not include NJ Veterans as a
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RT @JamesSurowiecki: How great it would have been if Finnerty just said to him: "You can't bring prices down by more than 100%, because if….
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Hutchins Fiscal Impact Measure shows local, state, federal fiscal policy shaved 0.2 pct pts off Q2 US GDP growth. We expect the FIM to remain negative throughout most of our forecast period (ends Q2 2007) in part due to tariffs. via @BrookingsInst.
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The Hutchins Center Fiscal Impact Measure shows how much fiscal policy adds to or subtracts from overall economic growth.
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RT @albertocavallo: 📈 Price pressures are back. Domestic and imported goods prices rose again after the July 7 tariff letters were sent. 🧾….
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RT @RichardRubinDC: New from me today: . US exporters -- particularly those with significant research expenses and domestic factories -- sc….
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The rise and fall - and rise - of Abercrombie & Fitch is absolutely f*- insane. The hottest brand of the 2000 spread double popped collars and the smell of Fierce across every high school and college campus. But then got canceled and plummeted by 80% with 450 stores worldwide
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RT @fwred: 🇪🇺The EU Commission explainer was published today, more specific than the White House statement on tariff rates by sector, and n….
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RT @ojblanchard1: What I worried about has happened. A completely unequal “deal” between the US and the EU. Have no doubt: asymmetric 15% t….
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RT @federalreserve: The Federal Reserve was honored to welcome the President yesterday for a visit to our historic headquarters. We appreci….
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RT @LHSummers: Based on what I have read and heard so far, the agreement reached between the Federal government and @Columbia is an excelle….
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Video of my hour-long conversation with Steve Adler (Former Mayor of Austin, TX), Cavalier Johnson (Mayor of Milwaukee, WI), and Christina Muryn (Mayor of Findlay, OH).-- Hutchins Center @BrookingsInst .
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A16Z SPEEDRUN 2026 UPDATE:.I think most people secretly know if they’re founders or not. Some of you can never be happy working inside a giant company, writing docs, in endless meetings. Deep down, you know you’re supposed to build. we're opening up a16z speedrun today! We are
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RT @SecScottBessent: Today in a CNBC interview, I called for a review of the Federal Reserve. It is my belief that the central bank should….
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RT @JohnArnoldFndtn: Last year was the largest one-year percentage point decline in murder ever recorded. This year is on track to do so ag….
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