Bill Foster: “Last year, I introduced the Pandemic Leave Extension Act, which would extend FFCRA's paid leave requirement until the…”

I have been amused for a long time at how can it be that there is legislation supported by 70 or 80 percent of the public, a clear majority of Members of Congress, and yet we are not allowed to even vote on it.

If you made it anonymous, you would allow Members to sort of probe support for centrist legislation.

The good news is that macroeconomic policy is working as designed.

While the Presidency is often the focus of political pronouncements about macroeconomic conditions, there is no question that it undersells the importance and the independence of the work of the Federal Reserve Board.