…what he and his wife jointly hold. Kerry could get about $18.6 m in federal matching grants if he agreed to both abide an overall $45m cap and to abide…

Tort Reform and Tradeoffs [warning: long post] As I was reading Dwight Meredith’s latest interesting discussion of tort reform, lead poisoning and lead-based paint came to mind. I was trying…

…made #20); Dick Armey; Cap Weinberger; Ken Starr; Ed Meese; Trent Lott; Rick Santorum; John Poindexter; virtually the entire NeoCon crew from Perle to Wolfowitz; Cheney; Rumsfeld; Reagan; Schlafly; Coulter;…

…that same period? They fell by $6.5 billion. As he says: if you are an investor, trader or economist, understanding—and I mean really understanding, not just recycling things you overheard…

…didn’t endow corporations with a sense of moral responsibility; and they have the Plastic Man capacity to be everywhere and nowhere at the same time – to be everywhere when…

…in 20 years without any shortfall along the way. Again, Blahous fails to note this. Second, Blahous provides us with a graph showing the Per Capita Payments Rising Under Current…

by Linda Beale How should underpayment of employees affect tax policy? In a pre-Labor Day blogposting, Robert Reich wrote about the brute capitalism results for many employees today–a full-time job…

…that a carrier can ask patients to pay out of pocket is capped. But insurers cannot cap the amount they pay out in a given year, or over the course…

…on the revenue side. This is basically the position of the ‘Raise the Cap’ folks. Another would be to make a conscious and sustained effort to postively change those economic…

…in economics can be readily verified by the economy. Let’s say that the utilization of labor and capital cap off at the effective demand limit, and not where most economists…