Neil Irwin

2 articles

Economic Fallout of Climate Move? It Depends on How We Value Time

New York – President Trump’s decision to abandon the Paris climate accord — and his broader unwillingness to fight climate change — will have broad economic consequences. Exactly what those consequences will be, though, depends on many things. It’s not just the political decisions that will ma

Can Trump and Congress Solve the Rubik’s Cube of Tax Reform?

As Congress and the Trump administration turn their sights on overhauling the tax code, it’s a good time to think about the great three-dimensional brain twister of the 1980s, the Rubik’s Cube. That’s partly because the first and last time there was a comprehensive rewrite of the tax code, it was 19