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Yankee Interlude

…have had a major improvement in its middle relief this year, the Yankees appear to have given up a large number (>=7) of runs in the middle and late innings…

Elizabeth Warren says sack CEOs?

…saving the financial system from collapse. Warren, a Harvard law professor and chair of the congressional oversight committee monitoring the government’s Troubled Asset Relief Program (Tarp), is also set to…

Another look at the budget deficits

…assumptions. In particular, the latest baseline assumes that Congress will allow the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts, relief from the Alternative Minimum Tax, and other temporary tax provisions all to…

Yglesias Wants to Soak the Rich

…been achieved through the instrument of direct taxation — income tax and surtax and death duties — especially in Great Britain. Many people would wish to see this process carried…

Pick your Pork: Semi-Final Edition (Senate Stimulus Bill)

…who’ve been the strongest supporters of the stimulus bill, because it offered them some relief in a terrible budget year, will cry the loudest. Schools, environmental programs and broadband expansion…

Economics of contempt on CDS

…it would be extremely counterproductive, as banks would be stripped of an enormous amount of regulatory capital relief in one fell swoop, forcing another round of forced liquidations to meet…

It is a start for a plan

…State fiscal relief also has important direct and indirect effects on jobs, and so very strong job bang for the buck. Tax cuts, though they have no direct jobs effect…

Geithner, Summers, and guiding principles…next week

…for its handling of the financial rescue, including “what appear to be significant gaps in Treasury’s monitoring of the use of taxpayer money.” The report, moreover, faults the Treasury for…

Most generous welfare program in history

…create jobs, my plan will encourage investment and expansion by restraining federal spending, reducing regulation, and making the tax relief permanent. How’s that reduced regulation working out in the financial…