I normally don’t read Ms. Quinn but the Cato critique made me take a look. Ms. Quinn’s premise is: What’s more, you’ll be getting a double cut in Social Security…

…the order of 10 to 15 percent today The clever reader might go “aha – you are double counting”. But his sleight of hand is more than that. Earlier in…

…scoff at the notion that the taxman abuses multinationals. Perhaps, but there are some multinationals that simply wish to avoid double taxation without enormous compliance costs. Arm’s length pricing could…

…is about six times what it was in 1950, doesn’t his graph show U.S. production is double what it was back in 1950? I doubt higher prices will lead to…

…falls by 50 percent, so dividend and earnings yields double. Would Baker, DeLong, and Krugman suddenly be in favor of President Bush’s proposal for Social Security reform? I suspect they…

…Sabo really believes in this bill – why doesn’t he just double or triple the interest rate and increase benefits for retired seniors? Does Mr. Max think that interest rates…

…spring of 2004, the fourth consecutive year that companies and their employees have seen a double-digit increase in such costs… When announcing earlier this month a 37 percent drop in…

…unlikely simply because it would represent central banks making a “double or nothing” bet on something that they know they will lose on — an eventual dollar depreciation. That is…

…the savings has fallen but it has stayed the same? And isn’t the sum of savings AND the increase in net worth double counting? And of course, a true believer…

…latest OFHEO tally shows house price inflation has run at double-digit rates over the past year in 25 of 50 US states plus the District of Columbia. Housing is an…