…sold at major retailers today, such as legendary Half of Fame MLB pitcher Nolan Ryan’s private label beef that is carried exclusively at Kroger stores, or at his private label…

This Burtless Brookings Blog post really is a must read. Burtless notes that taxes and transfers (including both ARRA and automatic responses to the recession) prevented huge income declines for…

…physicians what they already k new, Depakote was a very valuable medication for “off-label” (unapproved uses). In the irony department, prescribing and administering Depakote for off-label uses is legal, and…

…information about products’ energy use. Label is voluntary, and Congress ordered it The Energy Star label is voluntary for products that meet certain efficiency levels, and differs from Department of…

…is profoundly undemocratic. At the same time, I think Becker reads a little too much into some of the language. He quotes section 12-6bis (Becker’s emphasis): Notwithstanding Article 12.9.5(b) (Non-Conforming…

…Becker in response to a query I sent to him…Dan is a small businessman in the way most of us think of as small business. (The IRS has a different…

…Barro nor Gary Becker buy into this proposition. If they are Marxists, that’s news to me. Then again, both of these conservative economists are familiar with Harry Markowitz’s “Portfolio Selection”…

…the threat of violence and poverty. I do not know Gary and his ideas or political beliefs. Maybe Gary’s cartoon was drawn upon a foundation of racism; but, it does…

…of Bowie’s oeuvre had provided a level of patronage that’s inconceivable for a musician of Bowie’s bent today…he spent the Nineties as a free agent, jumping from label to label,…

…high cost of American health care. I begin by explaining the origin and meaning of the “single payer” label. I will then describe the two defects in S 1129 in…