…Conyers have published a well-thought-out proposal on bank equity, with the objective of assuring that when banks do stupid things (which they do with great regularity, even before the era…

…as what the FED Loan Rates to banks such as Goldman Sachs as being a cheap political trick. Senator Warren’s proposal does have merit and its only fault being it…

…displeased by her assessment of their capital base as inadequate and her proposal of public injections of capital if private sources were inadequate. In retrospect, Lagarde’s judgments look prescient. Trichet’s…

A response to Dale Coberly’s tax increase proposal summarized here: i have been saying for some years now that a one tenth of one percent per year increase in the…

…a myth that the last midterm election was swung by voter outrage about Obama’s health-care proposal, which was then being debated in Congress.” Well that would be a myth, since…

I wonder what happens when a Democratic canidate for President campaigns on a proposal to increase taxes on high incomes and cut taxes on middle and lower class incomes (that…

…IMF’s proposal. But the concerns over the repayment of Argentine debt threaten to extend to other markets (see here), and are another source of uncertainty. An association of lenders has…

…the notes reflect all subsidies given to companies in one place. Cash subsidies already appear in CAFRs because they are on-budget, but grouping them with the more numerous off-budget tax-based…

…Transform: This phrase is a technical term which describes the process through which an urgently needed excellent moderate proposal supported by all very serious centrist pundits changes into a partisan…

…include proposals from both the Right (which mostly take the form of benefit reductions) or from the Left (which generally take the form of modifying or eliminating the income cap…