Ezra Klein on ARPA-H
…rapid development of effective SARS COV-2 vaccines. Third, the NIH’s huge budget is money well spent. I mostly agree with Klein. I do have some doubts. I guess I will…
…rapid development of effective SARS COV-2 vaccines. Third, the NIH’s huge budget is money well spent. I mostly agree with Klein. I do have some doubts. I guess I will…
…the Exchequer Kwasi Kwarteng have managed to spook money managers by threatening to cut their taxes . Kwarteng proposed a mini budget cutting the top marginal tax rate (etc). The…
…budget” for the hospital; (3) paying a hospital “shared savings” bonuses if it reduces total healthcare spending for its patients; and (4) expanding Medicaid eligibility. None of these proposals will…
…short-term congressional budget models as actually raising revenue. The tax breaks didn’t come until later. “It will have large and damaging effects on the federal budget for decades to come,”…
…the coming years as inflation subsides. However the counter to this as the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) forecasts, interest payments as a percent of GDP will continue to rise. The extent…
…military budget, I estimate that sustaining this country’s defense strategy would require a one percent real growth rate in the defense budget, although there is unavoidable uncertainty associated with this…
Is there a self-enforcing budget deal with Trump? In yesterday’s column, Yglesias makes a critical observation: “there is genuinely no point in negotiating a bipartisan appropriation bill if the president…
…budgets or filling out federal grant paperwork. “During the day you have to support your kids, your parents, your teachers, and your principals. [Budgets and grant paperwork] have to be…
…Krugman runs the numbers for us. In contrast to many of the budget items that consume huge space in the media, Trump’s proposed $1.5 trillion military budget is real money….
…they going to get the job done? Like cutting by 20% the federal vehicle budget or cut in half the congressional printing and binding budget? What, we’re going to suddenly…