Michael Mandel

Michael Mandel is chief economic strategist at the Progressive Policy Institute.

The Google Way: How Washington Can Regulate Without Killing Growth

The Google Way: How Washington Can Regulate Without Killing Growth

The Federal Trade Commission's looming antitrust settlement with the search giant shows how regulators can do their job without stifling innovation More »

The Astonishing Obama Tech Boom (That He Doesn't Want to Talk About)

The Astonishing Obama Tech Boom (That He Doesn't Want to Talk About)

Obama has been surprisingly unwilling to take credit for the most powerful economic success story on his watch: The growth of the communications/internet sector More »

The Untouchable Economy: Why Americans Are Turning Against 'Stuff'

The Untouchable Economy: Why Americans Are Turning Against 'Stuff'

Young people are thinking entrepreneurially, viewing themselves as microbusinesses operating in a highly uncertain economic environment More »

Zuckmentum!: Why the Silicon Valley App Boom Could Sink Romney

Zuckmentum!: Why the Silicon Valley App Boom Could Sink Romney

The surprising link between Mitt Romney and the upcoming Facebook initial public offering More »

What the App Economy Can Teach the Whole Economy

What the App Economy Can Teach the Whole Economy

The lessons from an infant industry, including the power of cooperation and importance of regulating with a light touch More »

The Truth About New Hampshire: It's the Government Spending, Stupid

The Truth About New Hampshire: It's the Government Spending, Stupid

Nearly all of income growth in New Hampshire from 2000 to 2010 came from government spending More »

Newt Gingrich's Tax Plan Is a Giveaway to America's Global Elite

Newt Gingrich's Tax Plan Is a Giveaway to America's Global Elite

Eliminating investment taxes, as the GOP presidential hopeful would like, is a needless gift to investors and executives profiting off the gains from outsourcing and a frothy global economy More »

There Are Only 2 Ways to Save the Economy: Innovation or Inflation

There Are Only 2 Ways to Save the Economy: Innovation or Inflation

It all comes down to this: We have to match growth to debt. If we can't create miracles from growth, we have to consider inflation to reduce the value of our debt More »

The Most Important Sentence in Obama's Speech

The Most Important Sentence in Obama's Speech

It wasn't a proposal. It was an admission. More »

The Consumption Economy Is Dying—Let it Die

The Consumption Economy Is Dying—Let it Die

The big problem with consumer spending is that if you buy a product made outside the U.S., it doesn't encourage domestic investment. And that's what we really need. More »

America's Coming Infrastructure Crash

America's Coming Infrastructure Crash

The U.S. seems likely heading for an infrastructure crash that will terribly damage both our prospects and those of our children. More »

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Photos of Tornado Damage in Moore, Oklahoma

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