Mike & Co., This Tuesday, Donald Trump announced his intention to seek to improve the state of American infrastructure with an investment of over half a trillion dollars, financed through a bond program. The lack of details stands in contrast with HRC’s highly developed infrastructure agenda, which features an investment of $275 billion, including an infrastructure bank and a …
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Mike & Co., In the wake of the Democratic convention in Philadelphia last week, which earned the campaign a substantial bump in the polls as the general election phase formally begins, the first major economic policy report card — an assessment and comparison of the candidates’ proposals — has been published. Last Friday, Moody’s Analytics released a …
Mike & Co., Last night, Donald Trump accepted the GOP presidential nomination with a lengthy speech largely devoid of economic policy. Beyond paltry mentions of reducing and simplifying taxes for everyone, reducing the cost of excessive regulation, and tearing up every trade deal in sight, Trump presented no clear-cut or comprehensive plan or even a broad …
Mike & Co. — This past weekend in Orlando, the Democratic Platform Committee advanced a final draft of the party’s 2016 official platform, to be ratified at the upcoming Convention in Philadelphia. The platform has been described by many as about as progressive and precedent-setting in several areas as any in recent history. In this …
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