by Tom aka Rusty Rustbelt Federal Government Stupidity – Part 1 Part 1 of an occasional series The “war on drugs” isn’t working so well. But fear not, the Drug…

by Tom aka Rusty Self-defeating Regulations The Obama administration has made a major commitment to the installation and use of electronics in U.S. medical records. Obama sees electronic medical records…

…about our historic commitment to progressivity in our tax system. A good source for thinking about this is an article by Tom Piketty and Emmanuel Saez, How Progressive is the…

…reason that Stiglitz, Sachs, and Krugman were totally wrong and the PPIP was not a huge give away (Tom Bozzo and I explained it to them at the time but…

…banking sector while reducing their capital requirements. UPDATE: If anyone knows of Tom points us to an “ungated” version from three weeks ago, please mention it in comments or e-mail….

While I applaud the cautious optimism of Spencer and Tom, I’m more inclined to quote Joseph Brusuelas: [T]he January payrolls added a dollop of Zen like logic to a recovery…

Go read: If you’re only reading one post, see FT Alphaville, which incorporates and expands upon… Tom Adams and Yves Smith’s posting at Naked Capitalism discussing the document and the…

…paying their fair share just because they have lots of capital), (ii) missed the point entirely of my fellow Angry Bear Tom Bozzo’s post , which suggested it worth noting…

by Rebecca Wilder On Angry Bear, Tom Bozzo authored The Rich *Are* Different, focusing on the makeup of earnings across US tax payer brackets. And Cactus authors Poverty and the…

by Tom aka Rusty Rustbelt Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER) may have inadvertently lost credibility even before health care reform is actually launched. CER is the darling of the government-dominated health…