…$1.3 trillion to Deficit, Study Finds, Bloomberg (Dec. 12, 2011). Gingrich’s rationale is one that the right-wing American Enterprise Institute strongly supports–the tired old reaganomics rationale that eliminating taxes on…

…Liu (Washington University, Olin Business School) & Yifei Zhong (University of Oxford, Mathematical Institute), Is Capital Gains Tax Law Biased Against Low Income Investors?: The current capital gains tax law…

Yves Smith points us to a MacroBusiness post on declining peak life expectancy which points to the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (this link is to an array of…

…high-frequency trading. [This tax] has the potential to curb risky speculative trading that contributes little real economic value.  The Capital Institute’s John Fullerton has stated that a financial speculation tax…

…from the National Institute of Pensions Administrators. What’s changed is that benefits and taxes have gone up, and wages have gone down. (Wikepedia provides a short refresher of each term.)…

…the economics and finance blog, Angry Bear. Chris Edwards – director of tax policy studies at the Cato Institute and editor of the website, downsizinggovernment.org (loonyhiker< /a>via Flickr/Creative Commons) Of…

…institute, who lauds the flat tax in “The Beauty of the Flat Tax” as “desirable” for its “simplicity, fairness, and transparency.” Actually, the national sales tax version of the ‘flat…

…implemented. Until Germany and the core ‘exporters’ (all of the core countries except for France run current account surpluses) institute reform alongside the weaker debtor countries, adjustment has no hope….

…News and World Report editor-in-chief Mort Zuckerman. Arguing against will be former DNC Chair and Vermont Gov. Howard Dean and Roosevelt Institute economist Jeff Madrick. Does keeping promises to the…

…the US Consumer from the BlackRock Investment Institute, If long-term leverage sustainability is assumed to reside near 1990 levels, then the bulk of the deleveraging process remains ahead of the…