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The Necessary and Improper Clause?

…federal civil-commitment statute, 18 U.S.C. § 4248, authorizes the Department of Justice to detain a mentally ill, sexually dangerous federal prisoner beyond the date the prisoner would otherwise be released….

Crisis? What Crisis?

…the graphic from my question for the Q2 Kauffman Economic Outlook: A Quarterly Survey of Leading Economics Bloggers. Link to the survey press release here, graphic results for the questions…

Real GDP in recoveries

In all the discussions of the real GDP release I did not see this comparison, and I thought it should be made. So far real GDP has increased 2.7% as…

Uncertain tax postions

by Linda Beale The IRS released its draft schedule and instructions for the new initiative (announced late in January by Commissioner Shulman and set forth in Ann. 2010-9) for disclosure…