…just don’t take kindly to being threatened by rich people. I’ve seen them do it too often. by Bruce Krasting Morning. I put a response to this together. You might…

by Bruce Webb In my view you can boil Supply Side down to a simple aphorism: “If you tax something, people will use less of it”. And all things being…

by Bruce Webb CBO Director’s Blog Manager’s Amendment to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act CBO Analysis/Score Senate Health Care bill Manager’s Amendment Also I would like some links…

by Bruce Webb I posted the below last Christmas Eve. Which was too late to actually discuss the issue. People decry the commercialization of Christmas, which is fair enough. And…

by Bruce Webb A bipartisan group of Senators is making a push to tie an increase in the debt ceiling to establishment of a Commission whose focus in on reducing…

by Bruce Webb In recent weeks there has been some furor over the new push to tie an increase in the debt ceiling to the establishment of a new Deficit…

by Bruce Webb There has been some discussion here and there about whether the HCR bills in place do enough for cost control. I think that this is the wrong…

by Bruce Webb In the course of an exchange between me and a fellow Bear, the question arose if social spending had a crowding out effect on other social spending….

by Bruce Webb News that the Republicans are pushing two bills that would establish a ‘Bi-Partisan Commission’ to ‘reform’ Social Security and Medicare are stirring up a debate which mostly…

…for high precautionary saving that contributes to global imbalances.” Uh, I think I’ll leave the rest of this to Bruce. Who knows better than to bother with resent Valuing only…