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BW on Soc Sec VII: Present Value vs Present Values

…to appeal to liberal guilt about future generations, but in the end it is all about rolling back the New Deal. Present Value calculations showing a $10 trillion dollar additional…

21st century economics just starting

Mark Thoma carried a post on a piece The sting of poverty, by Drake Bennett, Boston Globe on a fresher look at the reasons poor people are ‘irrational’ in neo-liberal

No room for humans in idealogy

…paint their liberal rivals and opponents as traitors to Muslim civilization, stooges of crusader or Zionist aggression. And, weirdly enough, all too many intellectuals in the Western countries have lately…

Opus : Finale’ A Discussion On Taxation

…presented by Mr. Avi-Yonah: The American Revolution likewise was founded on the conception that while people have natural, Lockean liberal rights to their property, undue concentrations of private power and…

It has begun

This is a test. A liberal economic blog and conservative talk show host face off….listen to find out the result! Clash of the talk show and blog!!!!! And go to…

Voter Info and AARP FYI

…Employees International Union] to form something called Divided We Fail. Divided We Fail is a corporate liberal answer to single payer. We’re talking some big money here by AARP. Even…

WTO Doha, agriculture, and values

…service is not the point of auto use for me. 4. Are we being car-jacked, whether liberal and conservative? Without the media labels, how do we frame the issue without…

In the Beginning there was Income

…Sure we had a boom, GDP went up and the budget was looking better, but the Clinton’s come from the “conservative” or for the rest of the world “neo-liberal” side…