Sentences with phrase «american economic policymakers»

It argues that American economic policymakers embarked on the wrong path in the 1970s, when they began tailoring rules to benefit the wealthy in the belief that rich people were «the true drivers of the economy.»

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It is imperative that our policymakers find ways to compensate Americans whose jobs are threatened by global economic integration.

This mistaken belief that American savings are wholly a function of American household preferences arises because most economists — and, it seems, policymakers — can only imagine American households as autonomous economic units, and are seemingly incapable of imaging them as units within a system in which there are certain inflexible constraints.

«The feeling is there are many rules that are so old that they're out of sync with what you need to promote economic growth and that's a conversation policymakers are now willing to have,» said Wayne Abernathy, executive vice president at the American Bankers Association, a bank trade group.

The Center for American Progress hopes that this report's focus on economic integration is reflective of current policies and practices and helpful for future stakeholders and policymakers.