…need to correct their contributions to public discourse. It turns out to be more complicated than “that’s what academics do.” As you know, I’ve been giving my opinion on water…

…or 0.0007% of total Federal expenditures ($3.77 Trillion) for 2012. In fact, the entire Federal contribution to CPB is $445.2 million, or 0.0118% of total expenditures. That’s sure going to…

…at Colorado who made his original contribution to academe by writing about carried interest, has an article that sets out the issues well, with an example contrasting the significant difference…

…about the way the Romneys’ various activities fall within these rules (or not). 4. Retirement accounts? One question making waves is how a retirement account for which strict contribution limitations…

Jonathan Chait argues both that the debate about Romney and Bain is idiotic and he participates in it. His contribution is definitely idiotic if he is right that the debate…

The US real trade balance has been bouncing around current level for the last two years –being neither a significant contribution nor a significant drag on growth. This is a…

…in Apple stock? In precious-metals funds? A quiet Louvre heist? I asked—reader Steve Hamlin wrote: Beverly, Re: Romney’s IRA contributions, there was a WSJ article in the past several days…

…that his supposedly “blind” trust invested in a business started by Romney’s son Tagg, and the fact that he has $102 million in his IRA despite a contribution limit of…

…arguably the height of the housing bubble, residential construction contributed an average of 0.4 percentage points to GDP growth each quarter. In the first quarter of this year, the contribution…

…contribution of $1 million as well as the multi-billionaire owner of the Sands, Sheldon Adelson, with another sizeable sum ($1 million?). The unions and citizens of Wisconsin are hard pressed…