…then reduce the tax burden on everyone else by the same amount. Similarly, if the victim of identity theft was proven to be the perpetrator of some crime, such as…

…information about products’ energy use. Label is voluntary, and Congress ordered it The Energy Star label is voluntary for products that meet certain efficiency levels, and differs from Department of…

…the corporate tax rate from 35% to 25%. OK, in the first quarter of 2000 the effective corporate tax rate was 35.3%. It is now 24.2%. We have had a…

by Mike Kimel Corporate Tax Rates and Unemployment, A Correction Cross posted at the Presimetrics blog. — I’m embarrassed. I messed up last week’s post which appeared at Angry Bear…

by Mike Kimel Corporate Profits and Corporate Taxes Based on a comment by reader Troy, the following graph from FRED, posted without comment: Figure 1…

…In the corporate tax post, Yglesias suggests shifting taxes from corporate profits to dividends. I agree. He also complains about loopholes in the corporate tax code. One such loophole (a…

…across this piece in Forbes by Tim Worstall. In this article, he uses proprietary Bloomberg and WSJ data for 2012 corporate offshore cash holdings to assess that corporate profits abroad…

“Updating the long leading indicators: corporate profits, and housing.” – by New Deal democrat This week I’m spending some time updating the non-financial long leading indicators. As I wrote on…

…delaying a confirmation vote by the Senate. BarryO was strangely silent during Vitter’s re-election campaign, not once declaring that having committed an actual crime would be a reason to resign….

…one might term a slightly left of center view on crime, namely that the way to reduce crime is to focus more on rehabilitation. But the data shows that the…