…competing with first-time homebuyers for smaller, cheaper homes.” Maybe just raise the capital gains limit and index it for inflation. And build more housing. End capital gains taxes on home…

…Voodoo the Elder Bush always said it was. Lowering top marginal rates and taxing capital gains at half the rates of capital income would under my model have the effect…

…rate), $5,990 in qualified dividends (eligible for the 15% net capital gain rate), $4,184 in net short-term capital gains and $32,133 net long term capital losses and $33,124 of taxable…

…the most advanced country on earth; it didn’t need anything from the New World, and if anything, there was an outflow of capital (mostly human capital) from England to its…

…than the 11.1% of GDP in the 1916-29 era. But of course the 1920s was considered to be an era of very strong capital spending much like the 1990s. But…

By Spencer Brad DeLong said that Krugman eviscerated George F. Will on the level of capital spending during the Great Depression. Delong said:I have never been able to make any…

…the deficit on goods increased. More interesting to me than the current account, however, are some of the details contained in the capital account. The capital account is that portion…

by Linda Beale Another Reason to Ditch the Capital Gains Preference–Games Lawyers (and Hedge Funds) Play Bloomberg today covers a story about another tax-shelter ploy by hedge fund billionaires to…

…capital income actually increases. Those with capital must be experiencing a euphoria beyond normal drugs. How much would labor share have to rise to clean out the toxicity? My calculation…

…upon capital has been lowered so far down, that capital has acquired a state of immaturity. People want money for themselves and don’t want to give back to society. Fed,…