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Global warming policy on taxes report

18 expert panelists on GAO report on cap and trade versus carbon taxes. Joseph Aldy, Resources for the Future James Edmonds, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Richard Howarth, Dartmouth College Bruce

Soc Sec XVII: Cap Increases & Donut Holes

by Bruce Webb Andrew Biggs at his site Notes on Social Security Reform spotted and copied a remarkable article from the WSJ under the title Obama’s Social Security Plan Draws…

Soc Sec XI: Seven good questions by Reader Arne

…related to Social Security is fair game. But first over to Arne. Here are some questions I think are interesting, but I would prefer to see Bruce post them with…

BW on Soc Sec II: The Shape of Low Cost

…talk about the implications of this? Well I just copied this over from the Bruce Web in response to a comment from Jim A on the previous post. Some explanation…

Where DID the money go? Part 2

…find a way to value its U.S. subprime bonds and other assets. CDOs aren’t bought and sold on exchanges and their trading has little transparency…. Bruce Bent, who in 1970…

Health Care Spending

Bruce Webb or others that have looked at this issue, can you help me. update: The other interesting point is that the creation of Medicare in the 1960s did not…

ALWAYS READ THE FOOTNOTES

In this mornings New York Times Bruce Bartlett published a nice list of anti recession measures by Congress and makes the point that they are always too late. However, if…