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Sensible Tax Reform

…Carolina Alan S. Blinder, Princeton University Andrew F. Brimmer, Brimmer & Co. Kate Cell, Principal, Kate Cell Consulting Lloyd Jeff Dumas, The University of Texas at Arlington Gary Dymski, University…

What IR can learn from the NHL

Both Gary and Rebecca cited Marc Lynch recommending “intervening” in Libya: The appropriate comparison is Bosnia or Kosovo, or even Rwanda where a massacre is unfolding on live television and…

Coming Boomer pension cuts

…year for those retiring around 2023, and $17.8 billion for those retiring between 2028 and 2032. Allowing for deaths as the population ages, Gary Burtless, an economist at the Brookings…

Lieberman Says He Will Support a Filibuster

…be fiscal hawks while demanding that more public money be sent to the insurance companies I recall Gary Larson’s warning as posted on Doug Elmendorf’s office door 20 years ago….

Regulatory Capture of the USDA

…offender, by the way) got itself into trouble by shipping some no-no meat into Japan. I particularly like this line from the story: Gary Mickelson, a spokesman for Tyson, called…

Hogging/Jimmy Webb Post

Ken Houghton distracts us from the important things with an examination of monopoly power, asymmetric information, and perpetuating a bad business deal. By the time Gary Bettman got to Phoenix,…

Project for a New American Century

…Abrams Gary Bauer William J. Bennett Jeb Bush Dick Cheney Eliot A. Cohen Midge Decter Paula Dobriansky Steve Forbes Aaron Friedberg Francis Fukuyama Frank Gaffney Fred C. Ikle Donald Kagan…