by Tom aka Rusty Rustbelt Health care thoughts: Cross-conflicting regulations, employer confusion Most of you will be familiar with the medication drowsiness warnings to the effect of “don’t operate machinery or heavy equipment, etc. etc.” This is from FDA regs. (www.FDA.gov.) OSHA has extensive guidance about employee safety with manufacturing machinery, heavy equipment and driving […]
by Linda Beale Common Cause Claims ALEC Violated Tax Exempt Lobbying Restrictions The Common Cause organization filed a complaint with the IRS under 26 USC 7623, the tax whistleblower act, alleging that the American Legislative Exchange Council violated the lobbying restrictions applicable to tax exempt organizations through underreporting and operating in furtherance of private corporate […]
Tim had written as a guest poster for Angry Bear as ‘reader T-bone’ a few years ago and is returning to writing, currently at Polymic. This post was published about a month ago. Guest post by Tim Martinez Why Tax Cuts for the 1% Are Self-Defeating Annual U.S. income share of the top 1%. A […]
by Mike Kimel They Also Serve Who Only Stand and Graph: A Graphical Response to Paul Krugman on the Effect QE1 and QE2 I’ve taken a lot of flak for critiquing two posts by Paul Krugman in two posts of my own (the second one is here). To summarize the point where people keep telling […]
I’m devastated that Christian Rudder hasn’t posted to the OKTrends blog for more than a year.* He did statistical analysis of the monstrous database of OK Cupid — a dating site that asks participants hundreds of often odd and quirky questions about themselves — to draw out conclusions about various, sundry, and often fascinating topics. […]
Suzy Khimm, Kevin Drum and Greg Sargent comment on the series of gallup polls dating back to 1992 in which a solid majority of US adults, ranging from 55% to 77%, say that they think the rich pay less than their fair share of taxes. Please click the link to Drum then come back. I […]
by Mike Kimel What is the Question? Responding to Paul Krugman Paul Krugman has been kind enough to respond to my post which in turn was commenting on an earlier post he had written. As I noted in my previous post, I’m very leery about writing this, given Prof. Krugman is usually a very perceptive […]
If past file conventions hold true these links should work immediately on release of the 2012 Social Security and Medicare Reports Monday morning. This link SHOULD get you to the CURRENT summary. Which means 2011 until it means 2012. When it does. Social Security and Medicare Summary Report BTW from all evidence 99% of all […]
The first link is to the 2011 Report and is meant as a teaching tool. The Table shows projected income, cost, and balance projections over what the Trustees consider the ‘short term’, which is the same ten years used by OMB and CBO in their scoring. Table IV.A3.—Operations of the Combined OASI and DI Trust […]
Okay. The subtitle of this post is a loose paraphrase of statements that Romney aide Eric Fehrnstrom made to ABC News on Thursday. But not all that loose a paraphrase. It’s actually a direct deduction from Fehrnstrom’s comments. As Washington Post blogger Greg Sargent mentioned on Friday, Fehrnstrom test-drove a new, or rather a newly […]