OMB Watch points us to the idea that: Financial Taxes Can Raise Revenues, May Help Stabilize Markets The congressional Super Committee, tasked with forging a $1.2 trillion deficit reduction package…

…human beings. “Protestors Give Obama and Congressional Dems Second Chance” Be that as it may, the above list of demands is only a start. President Obama, once a community organizer…

…Chamber of Commerce–has “hired 42 former congressional staffers who worked for the House Ways and Means Commitee or the Senate Finance Commmittee”. Report at 9. It goes on to rep9ort…

…and implications of possible US retaliation against Chinese currency manipulation, you can’t do better than this paper by Jonathan Sanford of the Congressional Research Service: “Currency Manipulation: The IMF and…

…are former congressional staffers, who are pushing for the repatriation holiday. And those aren’t really all the lobbyists–they are just the “registered” lobbyists–i.e., the proverbial ‘tip of the iceberg’. Then…

…the voters blame Republicans yet generic Republican is ahead of Obama and the Republicans are ahead on the generic congressional ballot. It is just weird. But again, the penny summary…

…profits. GE has deceased its per centage of US workers from 54% to 46% in the last decade. Few contenders in the presidentail elections or Congressional elections make this notion…

…euro area growth had not regained its GDP lost as of Q2 2011. And don’t even get me started on Japan. The ECB is tightening; US Congressional leaders are recklessly…

Mark Thoma remembers that in the last Congressional elections, Republicans campaigned on how the Democrats were bringing uncertainty to the economy. “Does anyone think that uncertainty has been reduced since…

…paid academics who wrote papers validating the homeownership mania, and spread “charitable” contributions to housing advocates across the congressional map. But he also suggests, if I understand correctly, that it…