…bonds of publicly traded companies currently get to defer their tax until they have some reason to dispose of assets–which may be to recognize a loss that they can use…

…the minutes of their August 2009 meeting: Though recent data indicated that the pace at which employment was declining had slowed appreciably, job losses remained sizable. Moreover, long-term unemployment and…

…The leaky bucket metaphor is very simple. It is generally agreed that most taxes and transfers create dead weight losses because they distort incentives. This means that the dollar benefit…

…job loss and weak economic groundwork, Australia managed to push through the global meltdown with just one quarter of negative growth, -2.8% annualized growth in the fourth quarter of 2008….

…same price, was originally designed to subvert traditional Medicare and is no real loss. If we subtract that $172 billion from $218 billion we get a net spending cut to…

…a result of the United States’ failure to eliminate illegal subsidies to domestic cotton growers, the World Trade Organization ruled Monday. The NYT attempts to spin this as a loss…

…to stop this one in its tracks. Both Parties Mourn Loss of Kennedy in Health-Care Debate Three GOP senators suggested in their remembrances of Kennedy that Democrats will need more…

…reported their quarterly house price indexes today. Interestingly enough, the two (Q2 2009)reports diverge. The S&P/Case-Shiller marked a quarterly gain of about 1.4%, while the FHFA reported a quarterly loss…

rdan After looking at Spencer’s charts on job loss for the month, and the decrease in hours worked in a week I felt bad. However,the WSJ announces that: Business is…

From the coolest possibly-corporate-espionage story of the week: If only the FBI were to tackle cases of national security and loss of life with the same speed and precision as…