by Linda Beale Dell’s Offshored Cash Hoard and Fair Taxes As most people who follow mergers, acquisitions and other mega transactions are likely aware, Michael Dell wants to take the…

…countries, households have less debt. If you remember Michael Moore’s movie Sicko, in one scene he interviews an upper-middle class French family and asks them what debt they have. Their…

Michael Pettis reminds us part of the political conversation is pretty much missing from the election cycles of the last fifteen years except in the rather lightly noted passage of…

…month ago, Superintendent Michael Hinojosa thought Dallas ISD might be out $120 million each of the next two school years. The city of Dallas had two mandatory furlough days in…

…manufacturing at plants in North America may be affected when parts supplies start running out as soon as early April, said Michael Robinet, vice president of Lexington, Massachusetts-based IHS Automotive.“The…

…on letting the deficit go wherever so long as they can get the tax cuts they want most–for the wealthiest taxpayers amongst us. See, e.g., MichaelTomasky’s Blog, Tax Battle Lines…

by Mike Kimel Presimetrics on, er, in Parade (Magazine) Cross-posted at the Presimetrics blog. For a long time, I knew the date that Presimetrics, the book I wrote with Michael…

…to obscure facts that do not. Anyone hearing Paulson’s side of the story (read Michael Lewis, The Big Short) would want to know about his involvement in a deal, especially…

…Michael Kanell which will be released in August, I’ve had some posts whose results contradict standard economic theory. In some cases, readers have insisted that the results must be some…

…standard economic theory (Classical, Austrian, you name it) tells you. So I tried providing an explanation: Michael Kanell and I advanced several theories in Presimetrics but the one I think…