Via an Economic Policy Newsflash (hat tip KH): On Tuesday, January 14, 2014 at 9:15 a.m. ET, Jason Furman (Chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers), Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), Rep. George Miller (D-Calif.) will join EPI President Lawrence Mishel to discuss the economic case for raising the federal minimum wage and their […]
by Robert Waldmann Poverty and the Laboratories of Democracy Kevin Drum reports on the latest effort by a Republican to pretend he gives a damn about the poor. Marco Rubio proposes, among other things, the bold new idea of block grants. Drum condemns the proposal, but writes that there have been some advantages from Fedralism. […]
I want to remind readers that while our attention is on one part of retirement funding, there is a lot left out from the performances of defined benefit plans, IRA and Roth IRA, and 401ks. Kenneth Thomas does some reminding in past posts: Solutions to Middle Class retirements 66 trillion retirement saving shortfall The fiscal […]
Via Naked Capitalism comes this analysis of the current state of regulatory translucence and the Warren Coburn bid for more transparency. David Dayen writes: I’ve been going out of my mind the past few days seeing the easily duped traditional media uncritically printing statistical analysis from JPMorgan Chase’s roundelay of get-out-of-jail-almost-free settlements. The gist of […]
A response to Dale Coberly’s tax increase proposal summarized here: i have been saying for some years now that a one tenth of one percent per year increase in the payroll tax for EACH the employer and the employee would entirely pay for the “actuarial deficit” and would fund Social Security out into the infinite […]
by Dale Coberly GETTING THE FACTS RIGHT ON SOCIAL SECURITY? CRFB TRIES AGAIN CRFB appears to have simply misread some of what I said. But they also appear to believe they can argue by “assertion” or by citing other “non partisan experts” who are members of the Peterson machine. i will come back to that, […]
Dan here . . . this post is a direct response to Dale Coberly’s post. Both posts are long and complicated, so I and Marc expect further posts to tackle particular policy issues. Getting the Facts Right on Social Security cross posted with Committee on Responsible Federal Budget The late Senator Moynihan once said that […]
Stunning photo from Lake Michigan where winter gales coated St. Joseph Lighthouse in ice (Image/John McCormick) pic.twitter.com/eiqDxmLrlE
This post is simply a short note to let readers know that a series of posts and topical threads will be published over the next weeks by staff at the Committee on Responsible Federal Budget and contributors to Angry Bear blog and several outside authors in our network. Marc Goldwein, Policy Director for the Committee […]