Fireside Stacks:
A newsletter from Roosevelt Forward
Fireside Stacks is a weekly newsletter about progressive politics, policy, and economics. We write on the latest with an eye toward the long game. We’re focused on building a new economy that centers economic security, shared prosperity, and rebalanced power.
We’re bringing an updated version of fireside chats to your inbox here on Substack.
Why subscribe?
We’ll bring you a weekly essay—from us or a guest—about the progressive economic ideas that matter most right now. Some weeks, it will be a summary or deep dive on the latest from the Roosevelt Institute, our think tank partner. Other times we’ll give you our hot takes on what’s happening in the economy, on the Hill, or across the executive branch. Sometimes there’ll be fun graphs. “The economy” is big and broad, and you can expect us to interpret our brief broadly, with topics spanning from financing the climate transition to expanding worker power, from taxing the rich to creating a public childcare system.
As a treat, you’ll also get weekly wisdom from Eleanor Roosevelt, pulled from her “If You Ask Me” column, thanks to our friends at the George Washington University’s Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Project. She, perhaps, summed up best what we’re trying to do here in December 1948: “What I have given you here, I hope, will prick your curiosity and start you off on a search of your own.”
Who are we?
Roosevelt Forward is the advocacy affiliate of the Roosevelt Institute, a progressive think tank. At Roosevelt Forward, we argue that the future of the American economy and our democracy depend on a new way of thinking about markets and a new way of thinking about government. With a renewed commitment to transforming corporations, restructuring markets, reviving democratic institutions, and reimagining the role of government, we can restructure our economy to make both the private and public sectors better serve more Americans. Ultimately, we believe that new politics and policymaking—that can equalize power in our society—are possible.
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