…first place), regulatory hurdles, and new regulatory regimes. 5. Starting out with a deficit concern that is set forth as justifying reduction in programs for the common welfare is problematic….

…sees what many other commentators have seen–socialization of bank (i.e., manager and shareholder) losses, privatization of gains. Welfare for Wall Street, Free markets for the rest of us. Salon, Feb….

by cactus How much are all those folks at the various TARP corporate welfare recipients worth? We’re being deluged with stories about how many executives at such institutions are leaving…

…$5 the effect on welfare is much less than $10, but when it goes from $10,000,000,000,000 to $ 10,000,000,000,010 then the social cost is much migher (maybe even $1). Yglesias’…

…2. Concern for the ordinary citizens’ welfare is allowed and actually encouraged. (Is this in opposition to corporate welfare?). For comments, remember we need names to call each other that…

…and u(c_i) is higher. If the rich are richer, that part of welfare of the non rich which does not depend on enjoying pretending they are rich is lower. That…

…say no to drugs. Lawmakers in at least eight states want recipients of food stamps, unemployment benefits or welfare to submit to random drug testing. The effort comes as more…

…batch of nation-wide theft could never have been anticipated by the folks at Goldman, Welfare, Queen, & Sachs and is merely, for them, a fortuitous accident. But the ending is…

…people. Obama’s proposal has shifted the debate to whether a refundable tax credit is welfare. The Republicans can’t win this one. He has finally used the argument that Republicans can’t…

…is easy to write down a model in which the volume of trade is zero. In standard models agents who do not maximize welfare are introduced to cause trading volume…