Bharat Ramamurti

Jan 14, 2025 | bharatramamurti.substack.com | Bharat Ramamurti

Dylan Matthews at Vox has a piece out this morning that claims Biden does not have “much of an enduring domestic policy legacy,” which stems from his “refus[al] to choose” at key moments in his presidency. I want to respond to some of the claims in the piece and use it as a jumping-off point to discuss Biden’s economic legacy. First, some context. Biden came to office with a narrow 10-seat majority in the House of Representatives and an evenly split Senate.

Oct 27, 2024 | almendron.com | Bharat Ramamurti

America is experiencing the world’s strongest post-pandemic economic recovery. Under the Biden-Harris administration, growth has soared, the unemployment rate has plunged, the stockmarket has hit record highs, Americans have started new businesses at a historic clip, and the typical family has gained wealth and income even accounting for the global post-covid surge in inflation. Yet serious challenges remain, most notably with the tax code and the cost of living for the middle class.

May 14, 2024 | rooseveltinstitute.org | Bharat Ramamurti

By Bharat Ramamurti By strengthening enforcement authorities and funding, emphasizing competition across federal agencies, enacting progressive tax policy, and addressing competitive issues in the fields of information technology and artificial intelligence, future administrations can build on recent progress in promoting competitive markets and deliver real gains to American consumers and workers.

Mar 13, 2024 | democracyjournal.org | Felicia Wong |Todd Tucker |Heidi Shierholz |Bharat Ramamurti

By The Editors  from Spring 2024, No. 72 – 1 MIN READ Tagged symposium intro Eleven years ago, this journal published a symposium called “The Middle-Out Moment,” touting a new theory of growth no one had heard of. Today, everyone has heard of middle-out economics, but most people still don’t know exactly what it is.

Mar 13, 2024 | democracyjournal.org | Bharat Ramamurti |Sandeep Vaheesan

America is in the midst of an economic boom that few predicted. After the crushing COVID-19 recession of 2020, the job market regained its pre-pandemic strength years faster than experts projected. Rather than the certain and imminent recession that economists were forecasting in 2022, the American economy has continued to grow and blow away its leading international competitors.