…crumbling infrastructure and the need for increased investment (for more about our views on this, see my earlier story). Right to know for sewage spills is a straightforward idea whose…

…question savings glut versus investment scarcity, a week ago, I wrote to the Washington Post journalist, Steve Mufson, asking how long he thought that Exxon’s stock buybacks exceeded real investment….

…By contrast, loan buyers who kept the mortgages as an investment instead of packaging them into securities would have 50% to 100% of the loans examined, Bohan President Mark Hughes…

Bloomberg Magazine, in “Unsafe Havens”. (Hat tip to Naked Capitalism.) reports that money market funds run by Bank of America Corp., Credit Suisse Group, Fidelity Investments and Morgan Stanley owned…

…and investment. They must also recognize that the two most commonly proposed responses — more investment in education and more trade adjustment assistance for dislocated workers — are nowhere near…

…open Federal lands to energy exploration Grow Energy industry [but not renewables] Lower Corp tax rate [Highest in the world, don’t cha know] Incentivise school districts Schools of choice Solve…

…growth but included a bunch of targeted investments in education, energy, environment, health care that will have huge long-term benefits.” (Run here: Geithner misses the point or makes the point…

…car/truck/SUV product mix detail. Data is from the Department of Energy TRANSPORTATION ENERGY DATA BOOK: EDITION 30—2011. (Warning: 414 page pdf.) According to Table 3-5 on page 3-9, vehicle ownership,…

…: Generally speaking, Mellon argued that tax burdens were too high. Steep rates, he insisted, served only to stifle incentive and foster tax evasion. “Any man of energy and initiative…

…catastrophic cuts to Medicaid, or cut investments in education by 25 percent, clean energy by 70 percent and infrastructure spending by 30 percent. As if that wasn’t enough, they also…