Screw the Rich to Protect Super-Rich Campaign Contributors?
This item raised my eyebrows when I saw it. Joshua Tucker at The Monkey Cage points out that the Republicans are proposing we do exactly that. The idea (NYT, emphasis…
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In Honor of the Super Bowl
Favorite papers from the 2008 AEA in New Orleans (all PDF, ungated): Emily Haisley on lottery tickets and perception. I heard about this paper before reading it. Such a simple…
Watch the Parking Meters
…AAA rating. Those tranches are called “super senior” because they are senior to AAA. Sometimes they were informally called AAAA rated. This is nonsense. The lowest value “super senior” tranche…
How the Super Rich Are Killing Social Security
How the Super Rich Are Killing Social Security, Robert Reich Blog, Robert Reich Since Angry Bear has a well known expert on Social Security in the name of Dale Coberly,…
Special Counsel Jack Smith’s Opening Brief is Due in the Eleventh Circuit this Tuesday
…Garland has weighed in on this . . . Attorney General Merrick Garland defended his appointment of special counsel Jack Smith on Tuesday as the department appeals a ruling finding…
Looking Toward Tuesday’s “Debate” Between the Prosecutor and the Felonious Traitor
…Bear. This is a good commentary by Annie as taken from her site “annieasksyou.” Looking Toward Tuesday’s “Debate” Between the Prosecutor and the Felonious Traitor by Annie annie asks you…
ANTITRUSSSSST! (Dear Hillary: In a well-received economics-themed speech in Toledo on Monday, you mentioned ANTITRUST LAW and ARBITRATION CLAUSES. Please, please do so also at Sunday’s debate.)
…concentration and increasing competition, and curbing tax rules that gave corporations and the super-wealthy, like Trump, tax breaks not available to ordinary taxpayers. — After Trump’s tax-return leak, Clinton accuses…
Outsourcing, Education, and Thinking about the Future
…of Bowie’s oeuvre had provided a level of patronage that’s inconceivable for a musician of Bowie’s bent today…he spent the Nineties as a free agent, jumping from label to label,…
Rep Jayapal and Sen Sanders’ Have Introduced Medicare for All Bills: Part 1
…high cost of American health care. I begin by explaining the origin and meaning of the “single payer” label. I will then describe the two defects in S 1129 in…
The contrarian addiction
…protects the public from food-borne illnesses. It issues nutritional advice and drug labeling guidelines. It polices false medical claims on packaging and in advertisements. It safeguards about one in every…