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“We put together a book called Recession Remedies, which covers the breadth of the fiscal policy response and the monetary response to the COVID-19 recession and walks through lessons we think policymakers should take from those responses. One of the things we had to deal with head on in putting together that volume is whether or not we did too much," Wendy Edelberg said.

“The reality is there isn't much more the president can do to lower inflation, said Wendy Edelberg, director of the Hamilton Project and a senior fellow in economic studies at the Brookings Institution, a think tank based in Washington. ‘They’re doing, I think, all the right things on improving the supply chains and making sure the reports are working well,’ Edelberg said. ‘They should keep doing that.’” 

“It’s very hard to predict what demand for your products and services is going to be over the next year, and I think we’re seeing market volatility in response to that," Wendy Edelberg said.

“‘The common wisdom is that even in a recession, you have to get your haircut. Now it turns out that if a recession is caused by a pandemic, you cut your own hair,’ said Wendy Edelberg, director of the Hamilton Project, an economic policy arm of the Brookings Institution.” 

“We need consumer spending to soften. The more people feel comfortable going back to work, the faster our economy can get back to normal," Wendy Edelberg said.

“‘A lot of the challenge right now is managing inventory and managing your staffing needs,’ [Wendy] Edelberg told Know Your Value. ‘It's very hard for anyone selling goods, for any firm to predict what demand is going to look like over the next year.’” 

“‘If we are importing things rather than making them here, that reflects that we are demanding more than we can produce,’ said Wendy Edelberg, director of the Hamilton Project.” 

“‘We’ve definitely been talking about gasoline inflation over the last year. But what happened as a result of the invasion, it just took it to a new level of awful,’ said Wendy Edelberg, director of The Hamilton Project and a senior economic studies fellow at the Brookings Institution.” 

“But in order to combat the skyrocketing inflation, Edelberg and other economists say a slowdown is vital. ‘So, now the question is, how smoothly does that slowdown happen?’ [Wendy] Edelberg said. ‘And slowdowns can be painful. So, there’s absolutely a risk of a recession.’” 

“Either monetary policymakers can work to try to engineer a soft landing, which means that the economy can slow without a recession, or the economy is in for a far more difficult ride if monetary policymakers don’t act. So, we’re in the mess we’re in, and I think monetary policymakers have to act.” 

“Robert M. Greenstein ’67 discussed the relative merits of social safety net programs during the annual Godkin Lecture at the Harvard Institute of Politics on Tuesday.” 

“Economist Wendy Edelberg is a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, one of the nation's best think tanks. ‘We are fingers crossed close to peak inflation. What we saw in the month of March was that prices of core goods, driven by automobiles, outright fell. We're now finally starting not to see the pivot away from goods inflation and towards services inflation.’” 

“What explains this disconnect between the data and public perception? Much of it comes down to inflation, says Wendy Edelberg, senior fellow at Brookings and one of the authors of the report.” 

"Robert Greenstein argued against universal basic income in 2019, writing that providing all Americans with a basic $10,000 a year would cost $3 trillion a year. That would be three-quarters of the federal budget."

“Today, we check in with Wendy Edelberg from the Hamilton Project. As she explains, consumers have been gorging on products during the pandemic, but as demand pivots away, the prices of durable goods have softened.” 

“One of these people actually sat on the Federal Open Market Committee in 2021: Mary C. Daly, president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. In an interview this week with the Hamilton Project Director Wendy Edelberg, she explained her thinking.” 

“‘Inflation is far too high. People are thinking about inflation when they get up in the morning and they’re thinking about it when they go to bed at night,’ Daly said, in a virtual conversation sponsored by The Hamilton Project.” 

“San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank President Mary Daly said Tuesday [at a Hamilton Project event] she believes the ‘main risk’ to the U.S. economy is from too-high inflation that could get worse as Russia's invasion of Ukraine boosts oil prices and China's crackdown on COVID-19 further disrupts supply chains.” 

“‘It’s time to remove the accommodation we’ve been providing,’ Daly said Tuesday during an event hosted by the Hamilton Project at the Brookings Institution. ‘That means marching up to neutral and looking at whether we need to go over neutral—so tighten a little bit, restrict the economy—to ensure that inflation comes back down.’” 

American Action Forum President Douglas Holtz-Eakin and Brookings' Hamilton Project Director Wendy Edelberg joined Director Swagel to discuss increasing interest rates, U.S. debt, tax policy, and the economic recovery post-COVID-19 pandemic.

“Wendy Edelberg, the director of The Hamilton Project at the Brookings Institution and a former chief economist at the Congressional Budget Office, said that net interest costs don’t look set to rise to worrying levels over the next decade.” 

“This is a pretty unique situation because it's very much tied up with the pandemic and all of the fiscal support that congress enacted because of the pandemic,” Wendy Edelberg said. 

“Even if it reduces the deficit overall, a bill that transfers tax dollars from high-income people likely to save the money to lower-income Americans likely to spend it could still heat up the economy, said Wendy Edelberg, an economist and the director of the Hamilton Project at the Brookings Institution.”