July 30, 2022: Quartz's Nate DiCamillo explores the tools that the Biden Administration can use to mitigate inflation, citing an Employ America proposal that calls for the Treasury Department to utilize the Exchange Stabilization Fund to accelerate commodity production and provide price insurance to key commodity producers.
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July 29, 2022: Employ America Executive Director Skanda Amarnath is cited in a Financial Times article exploring the parallels between the current economic situation and the 1974-75 recession.
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July 28, 2022: A recent Politico article cites a tweet by Executive Director Skanda Amarnath that argues that the Employee Cost Index may be a more critical economic indicator than the GDP to evaluate whether or not the US is currently in a recession.
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July 27, 2022: Quartz examines the Employ America proposal recently adopted by the White House that would allow the Department of Energy to purchase oil futures contracts to refill the Strategic Petroleum Reserve as a way to provide price insurance to oil producers and incentivize increased oil production.
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July 27, 2022: Bloomberg announces the White House's new plan to use the Strategic Petroleum Reserve as a mechanism stabilize oil prices, citing Employ America as the original source of the proposal.
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July 27, 2022: The Atlantic walks readers through Employ America's energy policy proposal recently adopted by the White House. In the article, Robinson Meyer walks readers through how the plan can lower gas prices in the short term and has the potential to encourage decarbonization in the long term.
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July 25, 2022: In a recent Politico article discussing future Fed rate hikes, author Victoria Guida talks to Employ America Executive Director Skanda Amarnath about the imperfect nature of economic indicators and how they are impacting decision-making at the Federal Reserve.
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