Relevant and even prescient commentary on news, politics and the economy.

You searched for: label/GOP Budget Proposal

Paul Volcker Feb.20

…other part of the financial market. So you have a two-tier financial system, and then you have a series of issues that I would put in a general label of…

Real world business for the economic buffs

…white label website development. A local flower shop is considered a retail business. This is true but, it is also a manufacturing business. The design of your shop’s storefront is…

Ms Parker, Mc Cain, Party and Honor

…the past several months: hope and change. In the end, did Ms. Parker know she was so prophetic? That’s potent medicine. It also should come with a warning label: “May…

Same labels, same old stuff

One Salient Oversight sends some thoughts from down under on recycling labels: Think of the common labels thrown out against political opponents these days. What sort of political thinking would…

The Shrinking of Treehorn

…to help pay for our kids’ college educations or our own retirements? As our family budgets are squeezed by rising health care bills and wages that can’t keep up with…

Soc Sec XIX: Narratology of ‘Crisis’

…is number driven at all. Instead I want to argue that it is fundamentally an attempt to tell a story to sell a particular set of policy proposals, that of…

Limited tricks, monolines, municipal bonds…

…Mae and Freddie Mac) and not (private-label MBS) means it will have eventually sold or pledged half of its Treasurys, limiting how many more of these tricks it can pull…

Clouds

Having installed a cloud widget on the left sidebar, contributors and guest posters should label their contributions from now on so the widget can keep the references updated. Past posts…

Eyes on Trade

…and Clinton I administrations committed many energy-related services to the restrictive WTO service sector agreements, there’s a good chance that many of Clinton, McCain and Obama’s proposals on energy could…