…on foreward guidance of his talk) *.pdf but no warning. Open it). Medium and long term Treasury rates are extraordinarily low. It seems to me that we can deduce three…

…in Social Security’, by Michael O’Brien, NBC News: …”Hey, by the way, let’s talk about Social Security,” Biden said…”Number one, I guarantee you, flat guarantee you, there will be no…

…do not want to talk about how back when they were in office they played their role in failing to use their leverage to argue for more expansionary fiscal and…

…briefing. Other links talk about the lack of interim transparency and drafts of agreements to date, continuance of secret deliberations when making decisions on trade ‘infractions. and the enhanced ability…

by Tom aka Rusty Rustbelt Health care thoughts: Bundling Medical Payments The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) is chocked full of pilot programs, mandates, guarantees, prohibitions, penalties, taxes…

…assassinations — President Obama has been compared to President George W. Bush in his appetite for military action. “As shown through his stepped-up drone campaign,” Aaron David Miller, an advisor…

…concluded that tax cuts might not be good for the economy when tax rates are “too low.” (Not an unreasonable assumption – the top marginal tax rates fell from 75%…

…from that end game, Ryan looks at three “fiscal cliff” scenarios as projected (PDF) by the Congressional Budget Office (using a graphic from Brian Beutler at Talking Points Memo): Just…

by Linda Beale EITC: Mulligan (economic theory) vs. Seto (empirical evidence) TaxProf today noted the article in the New York Times about the EITC: Casey Mulligan, Do Tax Credits Encourage…

Elizabeth Warren is running for the US Senate in Mass. and came by Casey’s Diner Monday at lunchtime, a stop among many. Eventually the campaign will heat up as a…