…“Premium Alignment” and included a few examples to demonstrate how some states have set up their pricing policies in such a way as to maximize the impact of the tax credit…

…the U.S. right toward policies that expand access to healthcare. As we’ll see, this hostility goes back generations. And the second Trump administration has taken actions that the CBO projects…

Democrats believe Trump’s Tariff Policies resulted in the loss of jobs in manufacturing. Democrats also estimate a reduction in manufacturing investment growth by an average of 13 percent per year….

…the GOP attempt to label the Dems as the tax-and-spend party, the GOP turned out to be the tax-cut-and spend-anyway party. Government grew under Bush, even while revenues shrank. The…

by Joseph Joyce Greece’s Missing Drivers of Growth Analyses and discussions of Greece’s economic situation usually begin—and often end—with its fiscal policy. The policies mandated by the “troika” of the…

…constantly blames Obama for the Great Recession that stemmed directly from the failed Bush economic policies favored by the Republican party’s right wing, the same policies that Romney and Ryan…

…kind of odd. For some reason, policies that have failed spectacularly over and over continue to have adherents. Policies that have worked spectacularly have critics. Debating the merits of a…

by Mike Kimel The Data Shows that State “Beggar Thy Neighbor” Policies Don’t Work. Cross posted at the Presimetrics blog. Many states seem to believe a “beggar thy neighbor” approach…

…Great Depressions. Now, to lags… lags are one way to assume that a President’s policies don’t have an immediate effect. But lagging by a year, say, assigns to one President…

…who either had some prior biases about Switzerland and its politics, or found some sort of analogy between the not-very-successful policies in Switzerland and policies they happen to like here…