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Here it comes…

…in the coming decade. This may require the government to cut benefits or raise the retirement age.” Angry Bears are invited to explain what is wrong with this statement. For…

To the heart of the chant on tax cuts

Mark Thoma started a chain of posts on the efficacy of tax cuts that bears watching as research becomes published. Following the money apparently is more possible in this day…

New posting rules, comment removal

…and rarely used. All the Angry Bears thank readers for their respect and tone. It is reciprocated. The blog owner and moderators reserve the right to delete offensive comments, and…

Dueling proposals

…reports, so I assume more posts will follow from the Angry Bears. Update: I picked the quote from the CBPP report for my own purposes of comparing emoticons in what…

Update on Presidential Performance Book

…greatly from a few other reviewers – some of them Angry Bears and readers of the site. Now that we know how its done, we’ve been working on some of…

Another tipping point for global trade patterns?

…factories in 2004, and even sent 300 workers there to make sure the bears were up to scratch. But this week Steiff called time on its Chinese adventure. “We are…

Revenue Compression in the Physician Office

…limit or decrease Medicare fees, and there is an annual dance where Congress restores the fees with a small increase. I think most of the Bears understand the long term…

Privatizing Dinner in the Capitol

…Feinstein blamed “noticeably subpar” food and service. Foot traffic bears that out. Come lunchtime, many Senate staffers trudge across the Capitol and down into the basement cafeteria on the House…

Mankiw and Wm. Randolph CBO report

…William C. Randolph of the Congressional Budget Office [who] estimated who wins and who loses from this tax. He concluded that ‘domestic labor bears slightly more than 70 percent of…