Sequestration Spring
Yup. The Republicans won the sequester fight. Congrats!…
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“The messenger wore a skirt,” says Marna Tucker, “Could Alan Greenspan take that?”*
by run75411 Re-posted from New Agenda April 2009, Bill reminds us of some of the history leading up to today: Editor’s note: We are pleased to present this guest post…
The Stockman’s Big Swinging Whip
by reader Matthew McCosker I can credit two sources that have shaped my thinking on both economics, politics (I am quite apolitical these days), and finance. One is the Angry…
#RoryCooperLogic: Rory Cooper (whoever HE is) announced on Twitter that he and his wife have decided to pay off their mortgage and pay their own or their kids’ entire college debt, NOW!*
I have no idea who Rory Cooper is. But in light of Matthew Yglesias’s quoting of three Twitter comments by Cooper today, I can sort of guess: Rory Cooper @rorycooper…
The Tax Free Tour; a look at the offshore tax haven system
We’ve all talked and read about the idea and practice of offshore accounting to reduce taxation. Here is an article produced by a show called Backlight. Backlight appears to be…
The Republican Senate Campaign Committee’s Surefire Way to Defeat Ed Markey
The National Republican Senate Committee put out a blast email today mocking Ed Markey as the next Al Gore—aka a politician whose opponents will lie about him in order to…
Buce Explains the Law of Supply and Demand
“Think of the first rule of economics: if somebody has money in his pocket, somebody else is trying to take it out.” (via Steve Randy Waldman’s Twitter feed)…
Your inefficient grandmother was onto something
This is the third post of a series of posts highlighting parts of the paper by David Zetland Wageningen UR – Environmental Economics and Natural Resources Group; PERC – Property…
Demand for skills falling?
Re-posted from Economist’s View, Mark Thoma points to Arnold Kling ‘Is the Demand for Skill Falling?’ who points to this this NBER paper: Is the Demand for Skill Falling?, by…
Tuition remission…okay, now what?
Tuition is only $1747 a year. But then comes the other part…austerity budgets and as state support dwindles, one aspect is that creative cost shifting flourishes. The tripling of student…