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TARP Cost estimate lowered again

…nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimating Monday that losses would amount to just $25 billion. That’s a sharp drop from the CBO’s last estimate, in August, of a $66-billion loss for…

Senatorial Electoral Predictions

…notice that compared to polls I am predicting poor perfromance [SIC TSW*] for tea partiers (so lose NV and Co). I didn’t see Feingold’s loss in Wisconsin coming, but there…

Politics of taxes

…to the economy, not helpful. They for sure don’t create jobs (and often cause job loss). And there’s prety good evidence that we create a tax break (by allowing the…