…that the Times estimates are not sufficiently accurate to use in a statistical analysis, as Richard Florida attempts in The Atlantic Cities. Finding out if incentives affect outcomes like wages,…

…that their deficit-creating tax cuts really aren’t costing anything! See Roxana Tiron and Richard Rubin, Boehner Would Accept New Revenue under ‘Right Conditions’, Bloomberg.com (Nov. 7, 2012) Boehner called for…

…more than $850 billion in student loans outstanding, officials said. “Millions of consumers are affected by debt collection, and we want to make sure they are treated fairly,” Richard Cordray,…

…wishes, or societal realities from ideological wishes. Now we learn that Richard Mourdock, GOP Senate candidate in Indiana, supports banning abortion in all circumstances other than when the life of…

…by Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) in 2009-10 resulted in no penalties, the company told Reuters (HMRC would not comment). However, Richard Murphy reports that HMRC has been cutting…

…Research UK As Richard Murphy, one of the authors of the report, comments at Tax Research UK: This research lets us conclude that working in conditions of secrecy has become…

Richard Thaler asks exactly the right question. This from the latest IGM Forum poll of big-name economists, on the effects of taxing income from “capital.” I’ve been over this multiple…

…more convenient. No, as Richard Murphy of Tax Research UK told me, these funds are set up to allow round tripping by U.S. investors to avoid U.S. taxes, though some…

…lobbying organizations–less regulation, more privatization, more reductions to earned benefits like Medicare and Social Security, and more tax provisions that favor the rich that the GOP labels–without empirical support– as…

…Grauwe on sovereign and eurozone debt; Martin Wolf on private sector savings and public sector deficits (the financial balance approach); Richard Koo on the implications of a “balance sheet recession”…