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Social Security & the Debt Limit

…War on Women via the Continuing Resolution. Plus while Paul Ryan’s original Roadmap proposed privatization of Social Security his Budget proposal for next year left it mostly aside (except for…

Ricardian Equivalence

…that the timing of taxes has no effect on anything, and especially not on consumption/saving choices, because rational economic agents know that the state has a budget constraint which is…

More on the Mortgage Mess

…continue to backstop the securitization losses, as Yves Smith at Naked Capitalism puts it in The 7 Things Really Wrong with the Treasury’s GSE Proposal: Of the Treasury three proposals,…

Feasible Stimulus Politics ?

Robert Waldmann Obama proposes an additional $ 50 billion for infrastructure. He ignored my proposal to mail a $ 500 check to every US family this month. The proposal is…

Coal Combustion Residuals

…the second proposal, EPA would regulate coal ash under subtitle D of RCRA, the section for non-hazardous wastes. The Agency considers each proposal to have its advantages and disadvantages, and…