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New research shows how U.S. homeownership and the accumulation of housing wealth are linked to political participation (opens in a new tab)

Essays Aug 14, 2026

Persistent affordability pressures have driven up housing costs for millions of U.S. families in recent years. Home prices remain near record highs relative to incomes, mortgage rates and associated costs…

Economic Equity & Opportunity Taxation

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Housing Wealth Accumulation and Electoral Representation (opens in a new tab)

Working Papers Aug 14, 2026

We document that housing wealth accumulation systematically differs among homeowners by their political participation. Using a nationwide voter-property dataset, we find that realized housing appreciation increases monotonically the more a…

Economic Equity & Opportunity Taxation

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Defining extreme wealth is more complicated than it looks (opens in a new tab)

Videos Aug 13, 2026

Facing high levels of income and wealth inequality and shrinking tax revenues, U.S. policymakers are showing increased interest in proposals to tax the richest households. Yet determining which households fall into that category is complex and changes based…

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The debt-to-wealth ratio: A missing lens on the U.S. government’s fiscal capacity (opens in a new tab)

Reports Jul 30, 2026

Few statistics shape the fiscal debate in the United States as powerfully as the ratio of federal debt-to-Gross Domestic Product. Debt held by the public recently surpassed 100 percent of…

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Whether data from the Fed or from WID.world are used, U.S. debt-to-wealth measures show similar trends (opens in a new tab)

The United States sits in the middle of the pack on debt relative to wealth (opens in a new tab)

Explosion in post-1980 inequality largely explains low debt-to-top U.S. wealth ratios (opens in a new tab)

Measured against the wealth of the very top, U.S. debt is historically modest (opens in a new tab)

Private wealth has grown far faster than the overall U.S. economy in recent decades (opens in a new tab)

U.S. debt looks alarming against GDP but far less so against wealth (opens in a new tab)

Certain U.S. manufacturing subsectors have experienced more tariff relief since the Supreme Court IEEPA ruling (opens in a new tab)

The U.S. Supreme Court IEEPA ruling reduced tariffs unevenly across key U.S. economic sectors (opens in a new tab)

U.S. trade with China has largely been supplanted by trade with other countries suspected of transshipment (opens in a new tab)

U.S. imports are up and tariff rates are down since the U.S. Supreme Court IEEPA ruling (opens in a new tab)

Realized capital gains are highly volatile, leading to large swings in the top 0.1% U.S. income thresholds (opens in a new tab)

Taxed capital gains are a tiny fraction of total capital gains, which have grown larger in recent decades (opens in a new tab)

AI, Tech & Energy

Macroeconomics & Economic Measurement

Political Economy & Democracy

Taxation

Competition & Economic Dynamism

Household Economic Security

Economic Equity & Opportunity

Labor, Wages & Worker Power

New research shows how U.S. homeownership and the accumulation of housing wealth are linked to political participation (opens in a new tab)

Housing Wealth Accumulation and Electoral Representation (opens in a new tab)

Defining extreme wealth is more complicated than it looks (opens in a new tab)

The debt-to-wealth ratio: A missing lens on the U.S. government’s fiscal capacity (opens in a new tab)

Whether data from the Fed or from WID.world are used, U.S. debt-to-wealth measures show similar trends (opens in a new tab)

The United States sits in the middle of the pack on debt relative to wealth (opens in a new tab)

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