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The Budgetary Effects of the Bush Tax Cuts

…convened a blue-ribbon panel of macroeconomists (including Alan Auerbach, David Bradford, Martin Feldstein, and Greg Mankiw) to help them develop their estimates. What were their results? The JCT used several…

This Week’s Housing Data

Alan Gin, economist at the University of San Diego. Gin said the construction layoffs are one more sign that the housing boom, which has created jobs for builders, mortgage brokers…

This Week’s Housing Data

Alan Gin, economist at the University of San Diego. Gin said the construction layoffs are one more sign that the housing boom, which has created jobs for builders, mortgage brokers…

Social Security: Politics as Usual

…pension funds to lobby against President Bush’s proposal to overhaul Social Security. “The department is very concerned about the potential use of plan assets to promote particular policy positions,” Alan

Lou Dobbs on Outsourcing Production of Pharmaceuticals

…list of products increasingly manufactured overseas and sold to U.S. consumers. ALAN TOMELSON, U.S. BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY COUNCIL: U.S.-based pharmaceutical producers have been steadily losing market share to pharmaceutical imports…

Membership Has Its Privileges

…outperformed the market by a whopping 12 percent. Insider trading anyone? Although it’s not clear whether any laws have been broken, Alan Ziobrowski, one of the study’s authors says “there…

Sulli v. Daily Howler on the Flat Tax

Andrew Sullivan turned Alan Keyes moralist in this rant suggesting progressive taxation amounts to discrimination. Then again – Sulli also thinks the right of privacy (as in Roe v. Wade)…

Will Bush Raise Taxes?

…spending and other obligations make it increasingly likely that Washington will be forced to consider tax increases, rather than cuts. “President Bush is very much against raising taxes,” said Alan

Bhagwati on Kerry’s trade positions

While fellow free trader Daniel Drezner says he’s leaning towards Kerry (and has zero probability of voting for Alan Keyes), his latest blog notes a couple of places where Jadesh…

Which Comes First: Farce or Tragedy?

Based on the latest from Illinois Republicans, I’d say farce: Illinois Republican leaders late Wednesday asked conservative talk-show host Alan Keyes to be their candidate for the U.S. Senate, but…