Get Ready for Data Overload: Weds Report releases
by Bruce Webb via Brad DeLong we learn that CBO is releasing its 2010 Long Term Budget Outlook on Wednesday at 9AM. Which is also the date that the 2010…
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Joe Barton: the Indispensable Man
by Bruce Webb Mostly lost in the furor over whether BP Apologist Joe Barton should remain as Ranking Member of the House Energy Committee and so potentially the Chairman should…
The Four Pillars of Conservatism: it is not as Incoherent as it seems
by Bruce Webb Family values/patriarchy; Property rights/inheritance; Public order/tradition; External defense/xenophobia. Taken individually and in combination I think they serve to explain the essential unity of the various divides of…
How the Deficit Commission Painted Itself into Corner on Social Security
by Bruce Webb High on the list of tasks mandated of the Obama Deficit Commission is to get the deficit down to 3% of GDP by 2015. Unfortunately for them…
Shockwave Rider: it’s Now, Don’t Tell the Terrorists
by Bruce Webb I no longer try to follow Science-Fiction, but from 1964 to 1977 which is to say from the time I was seven until I turned twenty and…
Constitutional Originalism and Immigration
by Bruce Webb Something has been bugging me. Why is it that the same people that indignantly claim that a requirement for people to show proof of insurance is unconstitutional…
Price elasticity, taxes and wages: Or, why I don’t take wingnut economics seriously
by Bruce Webb It is I think a truism that in any economic enterprise all costs ultimately have to come out of price, that in the end ‘the customer pays’….
Deficit Commission, CBO Scoring and the "Leninist Strategy" for Social Security Reform
by Bruce Webb I have had occasion before to mention the “Leninist Strategy” for Social Security put forth in 1983 and followed by Social Security ‘reformers’ ever since. The strategy…
Social Security Reform: Three Frames and Three Ranges of Fixes
by Bruce Webb This may be too wonkish for the Virtual Summit, so let me try it out here. A lot of crosstalk on Social Security ‘crisis’ is a result…
Please drop by the Virtual Summit on Social Security
by Bruce Webb I mention from time to time that I talk with a number of D.C. policy types about Social Security, but mostly don’t use names because the conversations…