…candidates should step away from the Fair Tax during the campaign: The Fair Tax Trap (Oct. 29, 2010). Given the title of the Wall Street Journal piece, one might have…

…Obama Administration’s record. see Americans Don’t Know, Oct, 29 2010. They mistakenly think taxes have increased (they haven’t–they’ve gone down), that the TARP money won’t ever be repaid (most of…

…The red line illustrates the average annual growth rate spanning the period 2005-current. Since roughly April of 2010, the annual pace of income and employment tax receipts has been above…

…firms and financial institutions, helped wealthy clients evade tax “through deceit and trickery” (quoting the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York in its Oct. 19, 2010…

…affidavits now is that it leaves fewer people to modify salvageable loans. I had to recheck the date of the piece, which is this Monday Oct. 18, 2010. Banks have…

…last Wednesday’s (13 October 2010) FT (again, no link; feel free to provide in comments) under the heading “Defence M&A”: Lockheed has two small services businesses on the block. [These]…

…recent decision by lawmakers to freeze nominal Social Security benefits. As our graph shows, the consumer price index for August 2010 is actually lower than it was in July 2008….

…of the US recovery, while wages and salary accruals are up just 0.9%. The chart above illustrates the peak-trough losses (total loss), trough-Q2 2010 gains (total gain), and peak-Q2 (relative…

…and over without a bachelor’s degree. The problem is the lack of jobs. The chart illustrates the dynamics of employment by level of education through August 2010, as measured by…

…Rich Now A Tax Issue, New York Times (Sept. 30, 2010) spends a lot of time before it gets to that key point. Sure, some families that make more than…