…highly refined ideas of men like Robert Bork who value abstract concepts such as efficiency over the effects the programs they institute have on the lives of real human beings….

…effort by some–like the Peterson Institute, the Simpson-Bowles comedy tour, and right-wing propaganda tanks–to cast Medicare as impossible to sustain because of the current trend in health care costs. The…

…to the middle class as well as redirecting spending from our bloated military to domestic programs. * Source: SIPRI (Stockholm International Peace Research Institute) Military Expenditure Database 2011, http://milexdata.sipri.org http://middleclasspoliticaleconomist.blogspot.com/2012/11/what-fiscal-cliff-means-for-middle-class.html…

…From Paul: http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/inq-phillydeals/Polsky-to-head-Penns-Leonard-Davis-health-econ-group.html $100M annually for 200 fellows for Wharton econ research into health care policy economics at the Leonard Davis Institute. “Established in 1967, LDI is one of the…

…with foreign governments, making it harder to track whether their deals are padding the coffers of dictators, warlords, or crony capitalists. The United States Chamber of Commerce, American Petroleum Institute,…

…addresses students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in Cambridge, Mass. Conspiracy theorists came out in force Friday, Oct. 5, 2012, after the government reported a sudden drop in the…

…down the point that Butler was the first to propose the mandate. Today, J.D. Kleinke of the American Enterprise Institute goes straight to that 1989 report in a New York…

…Romney’s plan–skimpy as it is on any real information–shows that it is unworkable. One of Romney’s sometimes advisers finally sort of acknowledged that. Kevin Hassett (an American Enterprise Institute propaganda…

by Kenneth Thomas Every State’s State/Local Tax System Taxes the Poor More than the Wealthy–And All Exceed Federal Taxes A new report from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy…

…received journalism training at the Kochs’ flagship libertarian think-tank, the Institute for Humane Studies, and has used her position at The Atlantic and, most recently, Newsweek/The Daily Beast, to run…