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The Internet and the Productivity Speedup

…that’s it. Maybe office workers contribution to actual production is negative. So my theory is that office workers, on average, mostly harass the people who actually make goods and provide…

Opus : Finale’ A Discussion On Taxation

…from them.” Getting beyond the simplicity of Edward Filene’s argument, Mr. Avi-Yonah presents this as a case of partnership between the individual’s contribution and the government’s contribution thus, taxation is…

TRADE & GROWTH IN THE 1950s

…make a significant contribution to real GDP growth. If you look at the real trade contribution to real gdp growth you find: 1950-59 -1.70 1960-69 +0.02 1970-79 +1.31 1980-89 -1.21…

Economic Security: A Couple of Good Op-eds

The funds for retirement for many workers will come from a variety of sources including Social Security (a publicly run defined benefits plan), private defined benefits plans, defined contribution plans,…

In DeLay’s Defense: Smearing the Prosecutor

…not make any illegal political contributions in any state and that it will disclose corporate contributions on its Web site. York is not alone in this slime and defend campaign…

Bartlett Makes His Case for Soc. Sec. Reform

…one-for-one with the payroll contributions paid. But let’s remember that the Bush plan cuts the benefits and leaves the payroll contribution rate at 12.4%. So is it clear that Bush’s…

…note on the timing of contributions, from Dick Bell, Kerry’s blogmaster: After the convention, Kerry will be taking public funds, so there will be no more individual contributions after the…

…the Republican National Committee by making a contribution today? Yes, I support the RNC and am enclosing my most generious contribution of: $______ Yes, I support the RNC, but I…

Did Trump backdate his charity’s $25,000 check to Pam Bondi’s PAC by four days? Or was it sent, as Bondi AND Trump now say, in response to Bondi’s phone solicitation of a donation from Trump made (according now to Bondi herself) not weeks before the Orlando Sentinel reported that Bondi’s office was considering joining a fraud lawsuit against Trump U. but instead—coincidentally, of course—only a few days before the Sentinel reporter phoned Bondi’s office and inquired about the office’s plans regarding that lawsuit?

…this instance, he has boasted brazenly and repeatedly during his presidential campaign that he has made copious campaign contributions over the past two decades, including to Hillary Clinton and other…