…if you get 2% (for longer-term debt) and if you only have costs of, say, 50 basis points (or 0.5%), you can make a return on equity of 15% with…

…Summary: Alternative Fuel Credit-IRS Notice 2006-92″ (Sept. 30, 2006) (discussing the alternative fuel credit of 50 cents a gallon under section 11113 of the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity…

…important stabilizing function. Democracy has trouble existing in a context ripe for oligarchy/plutocracy. 9. Enact partnership reform so private equity/hedge fund managers and others who earn a “profits” interest for…

…if any, left after the first tranche has been paid up to that level. Maybe a third tranche is sold. Finally there is a last or equity tranche which gets…

…I get just slightly irked, because it seems to me that the phrase “debt-fueled consumption” strikes the following chord: every American household was loading up on home equity debt just…

…a program that provides badly needed insurance for each generation in turn. “Generational equity” is a delusion. Each generation will face different problems like war, depression, inflation, the draft, better…

…buffoon behaving in a self-contradictory fashion, a Randian free marketeer whose primary goal was to keep equity prices up. I believed all that about Greenspan before I read the book,…

…Net Worth, Homeownership, Owner’s Equity Chapter 6. Traditional Republican IssuesNational Defense, The Size of Government, Taxes, Washington v. the States, The National Endowment for the Arts, Welfare Interlude: What Is…

…is freedom!! Prof. Thoma told me a few years ago that “Economics does not handle equity well”. And after giving that some long thought I figured out why. Because classical…

…government has put on the line for banks, including its plans for “partnerships” with private equity to buy up toxic waste, with the government standing to get a pittance of…