by Linda Bealecrossposted with Ataxingmatter Dealing with the Sunset of the Bush Tax Cuts (Part II in a series) The Congressional Budget Office has published a report with its views on the economic impact of enacting legislation to extent some of the Bush tax cuts. The full report and summary are available here. The report […]
Prof. Barkley Rosser at Econospeak, lifted from comments here: We really should pause for a minute or so to appreciate the 75 years of this program, which has been an unqualified success, providing social security for millions of people extremely efficiently and without a single scandal that I am aware of in its entire history. […]
by Mike Kimel Cross-posted at the Presimetrics blog.Progress Report Getting a book out when you’re a complete unknown is tough. Presimetrics shipped a couple of weeks ago, and we’re doing what we can to get the word out but its slow going. We had a lucky break a few weeks ago when Parade Magazine featured […]
by Tom aka Rusty Rustbelt Health Care: Big Business Reacts to Reform The National Business Group on Health ** has issued the results of a poll on the reaction of larger employers to PPACA (Obamacare or the Act). A few highlights: The group expects employer health care costs to increase by 9% in 2011. Employers […]
Hat tip to MV=PQ (Tim Schilling) for this cartoon: Options, Choice and Exchange This strip would seem to indicate that too many options can create problems when making choices.
Hat tip Moxyvote for this note: Quote: On July 14, the SEC published the linking to the SEC asking for comments on proxy voting Concept Release on the US Proxy System. They occasionally issue these releases, maybe two or three times a year, when they’re considering substantial problems. They want your feedback. This time around, […]
Marshall Auerback is a Senior Fellow at the Roosevelt Institute, and a market analyst and commentator.crossposted with New deal 2.0 The Myth of the “Credibility of Markets” It is time to distinguish between the truths and the myths propagated by Wall Street. A few days ago, I wrote a piece suggesting that President Obama’s attack […]
by Beverly Manncrossposted with Annarborist A Curious Choice for a Sunday New York Times Op-Ed According to Republican pollster Whit Ayres in an op-ed piece, “It’s Still the Year of the Outsider,” published Sunday in the New York Times, it will be extremely difficult for Democrats to use their “failed policies of the George W. […]
by Linda Beale Excerpts from Linda’s post Dealing with the Sunset of the Bush Tax Cuts (Part I) at Ataxingmatter: As the fall rolls in, Congress is expected to focus its attention on the fact that the huge tax cuts enacted under Bush (mostly in the 2001 and 2003 bills, but also in other bills […]