Ken Rogof News Today

Lockdowns began. but president biden said on friday the economy has the momentum, the kind of momentum he thinks he needs to pass a large scale officially multi-trillion dollar infrastructure plan. here with us now to discuss the state of the economy and parts of that infrastructure plan harvard university professor of economics and public policy ken rogof. ken, we appreciate you sharing part of your weekend with us. lets get right to that jobs report yesterday. roughly 560,000 new jobs in may, ...

Conservatives and republican activists that the clock is ticking here. its like three minutes left in the fourth quarter in terms of getting something done this year. and theres still not a bill in the house or the senate. now, you mentioned this issue about -- that became a big issue this week about tax cuts for the rich. that will be certainly the number one tack that democrats make. theyve already started making it. every time i met with donald trump on tax reform during the campaign, one of ...

He also, the president says that hes banking on the democrats to actually come to the table, tweeting out just this week, quote, the approval process for the biggest tax cut and tax reform package in the history of our country will soon begin. move fast, congress. there havent been any specifics so far. but some of the presidents main proposals have included simplifying the tax code. as part of that, he wants to reduce the tax brackets from three down from the current seven. and probably the big...

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