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Tax Base Broadening ?

…of capital income and capital gains. I think the special low rates are considered loopholes by the critics of loopholes. I know some economists claim to have calculated significant dead…

AARP vs. Social Security?

…listening to a different cast of characters. An AARP invitation to a secret “Relaxed and Robust Evening of ‘Salon Style’ Conversation” to be held at a Capitol Hill home on…

It’s the Private Debt, Stupid

…the capacity of the real economy to service the loans that drove up those financial asset prices. Prices of financial assets plummet, borrowers default because there just ain’t enough real…

Rick Perry’s 20-20 Vision

…costs, an unchained and undoubtedly newly amok financial-services industry, and the partial privatization of Social Security, all of which Goodhair has managed to wedge into “Cap, Balance, and Grow (!).”…