…and Clinton I administrations committed many energy-related services to the restrictive WTO service sector agreements, there’s a good chance that many of Clinton, McCain and Obama’s proposals on energy could…

…House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) says there is “no alternative” to having healthcare legislation bypass his committee if Blue Dog Democrats don’t agree to legislation. Waxman…

…that “parents should be given educational vouchers which can be used at government-run or privately-run schools.” * 65.0 percent agree that “the U.S. should increase energy taxes.” And, finally, the…

…conflating two things–the original amount earned that was put into the investment, creating a “tax basis” that will not be subject to tax on any disposition of the investment; and…

…1990, there has been a negative correlation between the Investment to GDP ratio and unemployment. There’s been some back and forth between Taylor and some of the other big boys…

…share buybacks, capital investments and M&A activity—all extremely shareholder friendly.” (5) Companies invested roughly $262 billion in equipment and software investment in the third quarter. (14) That compares with nearly…

As Brad DeLong has noted, Tim Geithner believes it is time for “the economy has now recovered sufficiently for government to begin to make way for private business investment.” In…

…as a stimulus for hiring, but rather as just another windfall for businesses. The report notes that to the extent an investment subsidy isn’t used to stimulate investment it may…

…once. Many CEOs actually responded. The average response was something like ” to decide whether to make an investment we construct an estimate of the effect of the investment on…

…fail to have noticed that commercial banks are more tightly regulated than investment banks (especially recently after capital requirements for investment banks were massively relaxed). Writing “commercial banks” when everyone…