Rdan How does Congress keep track of such things, if at all, and again who reads these things except those willing to be wonks or lobbyists? Sen. Chris Dodds Proposed Financial Overhaul Bill can be found at the link. Huffington Post notes that de novo is back from Treasury: Despite bipartisan consensus on Capitol Hill […]

by cactus Taxes and the Private Sector, Part 2: Would You Like Some Lags with That?This post follows up last week’s look at how taxes on the private sector affect growth in the private sector. In that post, the data simply refused to cough up anything that could be construed as an excuse for someone […]

Rdan No Sweat adds another facet to the crisis in Dubai…mobility of labor and wages. I cannot imagine what conditions are like to produce a strike in this city. If the players default in high finance, do they go to debtors’ prison like most everyone else? An estimated 700,000 Asians, mostly from India, Pakistan and […]

Richard Baldwin at VoxEU introduces a new book on “great trade collapse” before the WTO meeting occurring shortly. Re-posted with attribution: The Great Trade Collapse World trade experienced a sudden, severe and synchronised collapse in late 2008 – the sharpest in recorded history and deepest since WWII. VoxEU today posts a new Ebook – written […]

Have a good Thanksgiving folks. From all the Bears

by Tom aka Rusty Rustbelt Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER) may have inadvertently lost credibility even before health care reform is actually launched. CER is the darling of the government-dominated health reform movement (not a government take-over, to be clear). The use of evidence-based medicine when combined with cost-benefit analysis has the potential to save a […]

Rdan Firedoglake presents a well written piece on US and Chinese trade policy: China’s Industrial Policy vs. US Random Behavior The U.S. China Economic and Security Review Commission has issued its annual report {giant .pdf}. Robert Borosage of the Campaign for America’s Future hosted a conference call for the Co-Chair of the Commission, Carolyn Bartholomew, […]

by cactus Regular readers know that (together with a currently un-named co-author) I recently wrote a book looking at how Presidents performed on a wide range of issues, everything from abortion to the economy. The book is currently scheduled to come out next year (more info as it becomes available), and I’m playing with ideas […]