…beat me to it. He has an excellent post on Issue 9.04 of Tax Bytes, put out by the Institute for Policy Innovation (a think tank on the right): When…

…horrible housing developments in the city of Providence. We had the “Institute” literally right around the corner from where I lived. My daughter is doing a year with NeighborWorks America….

…GOP nomination. It’s perhaps an appropriate time to bring out the Urban Institute/Tax Policy Center’s analysis of the Romney 59-point tax plan. They have produced a table (T12-0004) showing “Mitt…

Matt Stoller, the former Senior Policy Advisor to Rep. Alan Grayson and a fellow at the Roosevelt Institute has a couple of very interesting articles posted at Naked Capitalism, Why…

…and third-order effects of such eventualities could have profound negative impacts on the real economy. Which perhaps explains another thing I’ve been wondering about: why did the Fed institute IOR…

…$1.3 trillion to Deficit, Study Finds, Bloomberg (Dec. 12, 2011). Gingrich’s rationale is one that the right-wing American Enterprise Institute strongly supports–the tired old reaganomics rationale that eliminating taxes on…

…Liu (Washington University, Olin Business School) & Yifei Zhong (University of Oxford, Mathematical Institute), Is Capital Gains Tax Law Biased Against Low Income Investors?: The current capital gains tax law…

Yves Smith points us to a MacroBusiness post on declining peak life expectancy which points to the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (this link is to an array of…

…high-frequency trading. [This tax] has the potential to curb risky speculative trading that contributes little real economic value.  The Capital Institute’s John Fullerton has stated that a financial speculation tax…

…from the National Institute of Pensions Administrators. What’s changed is that benefits and taxes have gone up, and wages have gone down. (Wikepedia provides a short refresher of each term.)…