About FEDPOLICY.ORG
Plain-language explainers on federal money, spending and Congress. Nonpartisan: we name who decides, who pays, and the tradeoff.
What we cover
Three areas: the Federal Reserve, federal spending and debt, and Congress. Each has a standing explainer page that we maintain rather than replace, plus dated posts when something happens.
On money and the budget we start with choices and constraints. Sustained inflation is a monetary phenomenon: money growing faster than output. A deficit financed by creating money is a different act from a deficit financed by taxes or by borrowing from the public. Process pages stay accurate civics — who can introduce a bill, who can stop it, what a filibuster actually is — without treating the institution as a finished design that needs defending.
What we do not do
We do not endorse candidates, parties or bills. We do not publish campaign pamphlets or wear party jerseys. We do not accept sponsored content or paid placements of any kind.
We also do not treat “it’s complicated” as an alibi. Institutions, incentives and tradeoffs have names. A supply shock, a late data print or a hard labour market can be part of a month’s path. None of them prints the extra money, and none of them writes next year’s outlays. Where a page is about those mechanisms, it says so.
Who publishes it
FEDPOLICY.ORG is edited and published by Clem Ziroli III, who is answerable for everything on it. Not every word is written by hand: some content is drafted or maintained with algorithms and artificial-intelligence systems, and the daily and weekly briefs publish automatically once an automated pass has found every figure at its source. The methodology page says how, and the terms of use say what that means for accuracy. It is one of several independent civic data sites in a small network that also includes congressvotetracker.org, govspending.org, ballotquestions.vote and civitasintel.com.
Independence
We are not affiliated with, funded by, or endorsed by any government agency, political party or advocacy organisation. The site carries no advertising and takes no sponsorship. Independence here means we do not owe a brief to the Fed, the Treasury or a caucus. It does not mean we owe them a soft reading.
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