Via Truthout Dean Baker points to continuing insistent of President Obama to keep Social Security ‘on the table’. Dean Baker has a take on some numbers surrounding the politics and stories politicans offer: While most of the DC insiders probably don’t understand the chained CPI, everyone else should recognize that this technical fix amounts to […]

by Linda Beale Private equity and real estate managers get a “costly and unjust [tax] perk” Through a process of Wall Street interpretation of the law and the “Wall Street Rule” (that says that the government tax administration will have great difficulty gainsaying an interpretation of the tax laws that lots of high-powered–read “wealthy”–Wall Street […]

by Tom aka Rusty RustbeltHealth Care Thoughts: Essential Benefit RegulationsThe final regulations were published on “essential benefits.” No major surprises. The best summary I can find is at:http://www.healthinsurance.org/blog/2013/02/22/hhs-gets-specific-on-acas-essential-benefits/

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Spencer England has written about minimum wages and employment, and Minimum wage and employment from 2008 and Teen unemployment and the minimum wage What the fiscal cliff means for the middle class and state and local taxes Economist Robert Pollin, Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst and founding co-Director of the […]

by Mike Kimel Markets Need Regulators – Food Edition Back in college, I had a chat with one of my more libertarian economics professors about the need for regulation. He thought regulation was completely un-necessary. “But what about mislabeled food?” I asked, “How do we even know that what is labeled on the side of […]

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