Economy

Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) are considered "passive" investors and are exempt from corporate tax. But in reality, they play a very active role in reshaping whole industries, like healthcare.

Interest rate hikes are a blunt and imprecise tool that won't tackle current sources of inflation, particularly our overdependence on volatile fossil fuels. The best way forward is to shift finance away from fossil fuels, and jump-start a transition to renewable energy.

The president has the power to use federal contracting standards to encourage pay equity and respect for labor rights at companies like Amazon.

The Fed's overly aggressive interest rate hikes increase risk of recession.

Higher prices are not being driven by wage increases. They were not driven by federal assistance to people during the pandemic. And Democrats aren't to blame.

We don't need a recession—which would be devastating—to solve our inflation problem.

Rather than making money harder to get, the U.S. government needs to focus on the other side of the demand vs. supply equation.