It’s official: President Obama has proposed cutting Social Security by replacing the program’s current inflation adjustment with the stingier “chained” Consumer Price Index. As I’ve discussed before, this risks undoing…
I step out of the dark bathroom. (Really, the light is out and we’re around 26,000 feet—pretty certain it’s the even numbers if you’re flying West.) Wandering back to my…
Center for Effective Government presents side by side budget comparisons: Click image to see full-size PDF chart and analysis A larger image is also available (JPG format)…
Greg Mankiw suggests a part of the new budget proposed by President Obama affects 401k and IRA accounts. Some comment in general retirement accounts from AB starts here. Apparently, President…
The title should actually be “How Dollar Bills Move,” but it’s not as alliterative. A fascinating item on the work of Dirk Brockmann, who’s used WheresGeorge.com to map the movement…
Steve Randy Waldman and Scott Sumner (plus many others, linked from Steve’s post) wade in on notions of saving and investment. (I’m endlessly amazed that the best econothinkers on the…
Margaret Thatcher, Polarizing Right-Winger The major news media celebrated Margaret Thatcher upon her death. They seem to praise her stubbornness and ability to move the UK to support her very…
Ex Macroeconomist Noah Smith argues that it is a good thing that there are professional macroeconomists. He has two arguments 1) So does this mean that macro research is useless…
Erica Payne sent out a request for writeups from Patriotic Millionaires members, and I provided this. I hate not to re-use perfectly good copy… I live (quite well) off financial…