HeyJaredThe Bully Pulpit with Bharat Ramamurti
Notes on politics, the economy, and a progressive vision for America
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My Conversation with Brian Beutler of the Off Message Substack (opens the original)
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I was excited to join Brian Beutler late last week to talk about my recent piece on the Affordability Mirage, Brian’s recent writing on AI safety, and much more. I hope you’ll give it a listen!Thanks for reading The Bully Pulpit with Bharat Ramamurti! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.<form class="subscription-widget
Guest Post: It’s Time to Raise the Rates (No, Not Those Ones) (opens the original)
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Samarth Gupta is a policy fellow at the Roosevelt Institute and served in the Treasury Department from 2022 to 2025. He also writes on Substack at Wicked Good Policy.A strong August jobs report and persistent inflation—kept alive by the President’s tariff obsession and protracted war in Iran—have <a href="https://finance.yahoo.com/economy/policy/article/fed-rate-hike-odds-surge-to-90-on-monthly-jump-in-core-prices-131206510.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmN
The Affordability Mirage (opens the original)
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Since the post-COVID inflation surge of 2021, Americans have said consistently that the cost of living is their top concern. The Democrats running for the party’s presidential nomination in 2028 will almost certainly center their campaigns on bringing down costs. And if one of them ultimately wins the presidency, they will probably spend much of their political capital on affordability reforms. Let’s say that sequence of events comes to pass and our new Democratic president declares the followin
Bridging Democratic Disagreements on Healthcare (opens the original)
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Most political observers agree that Democrats should “focus more” on healthcare in their public messaging. Voters list healthcare costs as a top concern and consistently trust Democrats more than Republicans on the issue. The more Democrats can make elections about healthcare policy, the better. But what should Democrats actually say they want to do about healthcare? T
Guest Post: Americans Are Owed a Trump Corruption Rebate (opens the original)
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In his second term, President Trump has illegally accepted a $400 million Boeing 747 from the government of Qatar. He has leveraged his family’s cryptocurrency ventures as a bribe machine. And he has presided over dozens of transactions in which political donati
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