by Linda Beale Stiglitz on globalization: the MNEs bought the law they wanted; it’s time to take it back Joseph Stiglitz has a new read-worthy article. Globalization isn’t just about profits; it’s about taxes, too, The Guardian (May 27, 2013). As he notes towards the conclusion of the piece, the big MNEs aren’t simply “applying […]
by Mike Kimel An Open Letter to the Board of Trustees of Purdue University Dear Board of Trustees of Purdue University, If I may, I’d like to bring some facts about your President, Mitch Daniels, to your awareness. Now, it may be odd for me to do so, as I am not actually affiliated in […]
by Tom aka Rusty Rustbelt Health Care Thoughts: I really shouldn’t write this….. This will, if Dan publishes the piece, offend someone for certain. I have a libertarian do-your-own-thing streak, but something recently really struck me as a tragic image. So I am in the grocery store, and coming around the aisle hear the beep-beep […]
Steve Easterbrook offers this quick timeline on climatology. In particular, the movies and animations at the end, including the IPSL one, are very interesting and a lot of fun. See Timeline of climate modeling
by Linda Beale Another reason for NOT cutting Social Security benefits–seniors poorer than you think As everybody knows, a constant refrain of the far-right GOP establishment is a desire to cut taxes for the wealthy while cutting benefits for the poor. The ideological right talks about benefits for the poor as “welfare” but never talks […]
Angry Bear readers are familiar with Mark’s writings: Mark Thoma is a macroeconomist and time-series econometrician at the University of Oregon. His research focuses on how monetary policy affects the economy, and he has also worked on political business cycle models. Mark is currently a fellow at The Century Foundation, a columnist at The Fiscal […]
By Noni Mausa A Nation of the Non-productive? Over on Brad deLong’s blog, I tossed off a comment. Thought it was a throw-away, but is it really? ======= Now and then for fun, I dip into the Wealth of Nations. Here’s a snippet from the beginning of Chapter III: ““A man grows rich by employing […]
by Linda Beale The IRS tale–Times letter writers seem to get it (or at least, most of them anyway) As I’ve noted in several posts on A Taxing Matter (see links, below), the media and right-wing “hearing” frenzy continues over the purported IRS “scandal” from “targeting” conservative groups for extra scrutiny in determining whether to […]