…(2) it performs less well than experienced cherry-pickers. In short, it would be useful if you have a shortage of labor and an excess of capital, but not—as is common…

Put all this together, and you have a classic recipe for vulnerability. Capital inflows (borrowing overseas plus foreigners coming into the local stock market) tend to keep the exchange rate…

…competing with first-time homebuyers for smaller, cheaper homes.” Maybe just raise the capital gains limit and index it for inflation. And build more housing. End capital gains taxes on home…

…Voodoo the Elder Bush always said it was. Lowering top marginal rates and taxing capital gains at half the rates of capital income would under my model have the effect…

…the carpenter). The problem with making these analogies, especially in the area of capital gains, is that the idea of capital gains is problematic to start with. We’d be much…

…rate), $5,990 in qualified dividends (eligible for the 15% net capital gain rate), $4,184 in net short-term capital gains and $32,133 net long term capital losses and $33,124 of taxable…

…the most advanced country on earth; it didn’t need anything from the New World, and if anything, there was an outflow of capital (mostly human capital) from England to its…

…than the 11.1% of GDP in the 1916-29 era. But of course the 1920s was considered to be an era of very strong capital spending much like the 1990s. But…

By Spencer Brad DeLong said that Krugman eviscerated George F. Will on the level of capital spending during the Great Depression. Delong said:I have never been able to make any…

…the deficit on goods increased. More interesting to me than the current account, however, are some of the details contained in the capital account. The capital account is that portion…