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Kevin Drum makes me blow a gasket

…need money for universal healthcare, anti-poverty programs, green infrastructure investment/subsidies etc etc etc and we can’t get it just by taxing the rich. A resonable argument (given Obama’s current proposal…

Why I Don’t Do Market Timing

…2002-2008 expansion provided significant real income gains, and more than half of those gains were due to the improvement in Canada’s terms of trade. So there really isn’t an infrastructure

Who is Neel Kashkari?

…energy security plan, enhancing Treasury’s engagement with India, particularly in the area of infrastructure development, and developing and executing the Department’s response to the housing crisis, including the formation of…

SKG responds to post on privatizing cities

…appearance (and probably the actual fact) that infrastructure and other needs in the faster growing north were being ignored while considerable tax money was being redirected to Atlanta and other…

Municipal Finance and Depression

…to be kept more reasonable. But it appears we may lose that. And therefore infrastructure projects will become more difficult to finance, and, as with the early 1870s, the question…

ISP advertising and behavioral privacy

…access to all or substantially all of an individual’s Web traffic as it travels through the ISP’s infrastructure, including traffic to all political, religious, and other non-commercial sites. While traditional…

Pretending to be in control of our destiny

by rdan Lifted from comments cactus style, by k harris. A public infrastructure spending binge is likely to require lots of petroleum products. This is not a deadly criticism, but…

More drilling analysis – Menzie Chinn

…local infrastructure issues and other potential non-Federal impediments will be resolved after Federal access restrictions have been lifted. With these assumptions, technically recoverable undiscovered resources in the lower 48 OCS…

The US economy is in a funk

…intervening in currency markets and redirect investment toward more domestic consumption and investment in schools, hospitals and public infrastructure. Then the tax could be removed. That may sound radical but…