…on the the assumption of no more alternative minimum tax fixes and no more doc fixed and, especially, all Bush tax cuts expire. Pretending it is news is hyping a…

…to 2039. Under the ‘Alternative Fiscal Scenario’ the corresponding numbers are 2.1% and 2037 or right in line with the Social Security Trustees 2009 projections. Meaning that the NW Plan…

…given these three candidates two weeks to find alternative funding that would have otherwise been available through the Arizona Citizens Clean Elections Act that has been in existence for twelve…

…inequitable, these people simply didn’t have time to do alternative planning through Personal Retirement Accounts or anything else. This reality was explicitly recognized by Bush’s 2001 Commission to Strengthen Social…

…growth in real income, relative to the unreformed alternative. There are two kinds of economists. Those who read the Economist (or FT) every week, and have a pretty good sense…

Robert Waldmann Felix Salmon wrote “S&P and Moody’s are clearly completely incompetent, and no one should base any investment decisions on the random series of letters they apply to bonds.”…

…this because the alternative is to believe that she, given the choice between paying 8.5% and paying 12.5%, honestly preferred the latter.) The second piece of evidence comes from Mr….

…support to publish alternative views in top journals. It’s so easy to be shunned from the academic community; just take on an unorthodox research agenda, and bang, you’re bright and…

…freely, privatization of social security and other programs (that would put more dollars under direct control of investment bankers and insurers), and lowering of individual tax rates and provisions that…

…a better engine for growth and a greater potential for entrepreneurial opportunity, even if a groundskeeper becomes underutilized in the process. The most viable alternative to addressing the deficit by…