…matters is the price paid to Fannie/Freddie/Ginnie not the price on the secondary market. That is, the price that matters is the price of new MBS — the money sent…

…so of the category that the Report Tables label as “Cost”. These projected future benefits are in turn offset by projected income deriving from one main and two minor sources,…

…to overstate how central the unjustified label of “fiscal conservative” is to the Ryan brand and the GOP’s strategy. As Clinton understood in the 1990s, “fiscal responsibility” is a values…

…for cutting that budget item (which they would undoubtedly label “redundant” and “wasteful” if it hadn’t been cut). With the Obama Administration outspending all prior Administrations while adding to the…

…because he accurately summarized an article in The Washington Post. ” The Obama campaign misused a recent Washington Post article to label Romney as an “outsourcer in chief.”” Yes the…

…Santorum once didn’t have much money and he has memories of a coal-miner grandfather. Is that enough to create ‘bona fides’ for his views on how we should manage the…

…helpful to enumerate the major economic functions any health system must perform: Producing health-care goods and services. Financing health care, which involves extracting money from households (which ultimately pay for…

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by Linda Beale Barney Frank and the need for a risk-based bank fee That post about the McCain-Paul environmental devastation and revenue decimation bill (somehow mistakenly given the label of…

…in itself explains why they don’t understand the aims of Progressive Taxation. Label it how you like, the academic discipline that emerged from England in the 18th and 19th century…