…Corporate Profits Like S-Corps, and Eradicate Taxes on Corporations, Dividends, and Capital Gains. Credit for the idea goes to Milton Friedman (Capitalism and Freedom, page 174 in my edition). Shareholders…

…and off of short-term capital, and place it instead on long-term capital accumulations. If this reduces the investment in fixed capital that is desired for other reasons — in particular,…

…scrapping the payroll tax altogether and replacing the lost revenue with a package of levies on things that, unlike jobs, we want less rather than more of—things like pollution, carbon…

…and government intervention can often help. In some cases, e.g. with a carbon tax or cap-and-trade, government intervention will reduce output and employment growth in the industry and many misguided…

…No, capitalism is not an ideology. What makes Jeff Bezos a capitalist is not his belief system but his ownership and deployment of capital. Capitalism is a system of institutions…

…pushing it. I’ll let Citizens Trade Campaign sum it up:  “The TPP is poised to become the largest free trade agreement in the world, potentially impacting jobs, wages, agriculture, migration,…

…many countries, trade liberalization was accompanied by deregulation of the domestic financial system and capital-account liberalization, giving rise to a rapid expansion of international capital flows. International finance gained a…

I though a little different perspective on the impact of trade on the real GDP accounts might be interesting. The first chart is of imports market share, or imports as…

rdan Calculated Risk reminds us: …U.S. trade deficit, with and without petroleum, through July. The blue line is the total deficit, and the black line is the petroleum deficit, and…

Angry Bear is looking for an economist or other bright mind (no jokes please…well, some anyway)) to help us keep the issue of trade, trade policy, WTO, trade deficit/surpluses in…