…jacking up prices to take advantage of a food shortage? What about airlines raising fares to cash in on desperate attempts to flee an impending hurricane, or stores that double…

…a double dividend. I disagree with that (I think the deadweight loss case against taxes is weak), but I agree that carbon prices operate like a sales tax and are…

…Philly, Richmond, and Kansas City indexes, along with the Chicago PMI. Since Chicago uses a different scale (where 50 is “neutral”), to include that I subtract 50 and then double…

…number of 65.2, which gives us 15.2, and then double the result. The average of the 5 is 22.9. Dividing that by 5 gives us +.5. Subtracting .3 gives us…

…universalization of self-regard. In the meantime, some people are more care-conscious than others, which means social justice activism has a double task: getting people to recognize that care is not…

…Somewhere north of 300 billion. And instead of being double-taxed on profits for all that time, investors’ income is taxed once, at the low 20% capital gains rate. And that,…

…those assets during the deceased person’s lifetime and are passed with stepped up basis to heirs, so the estate tax is not a double tax on those assets but rather…

…were Arthur Burns and G William Miller who allowed double digit inflation. Volcker is alleged to have tamed the inflation expectations beast after replacing Miller. There is much less than…

…growth in productivity. For years they grew together, then they grow apart. The levels of both variables almost double, 1948-73, but since then, productivity has outpaced the real comp of…

…are double digit at ~25% beating out hospital supplies and healthcare insurance, which is already limited in what can be charged back to the insured by the MLR. To blame…