Everybody’s Talkin’ ‘Bout Taxes–especially Wealth Taxes and Mark-to-Market of Capital Gains Not surprisingly for those of you who are members of the ABA Tax Section, there is a meeting of…
How To Estimate “Rational” Market Expectations Of Future Inflation I am not a fan of rational expectations, hence the quotation marks around “rational” in the subject head here. Nevertheless I…
…Greg Leiserson discussed the idea of mark-to-market taxation (an idea that Ron Wyden has endorsed), in “Taxing wealth by taxing investment income: An introduction to mark-to-market taxation” (Sept 11, 2019). …
…pegged to Medicare rates. Now the MMC upper-payment limit may be set to “average commercial rates.” The commercial market for hospital services is not a competitive market. It therefore holds…
Labor market remains strong. Even so, the Fed should cut rates in September (EPI) Two things are true right now for the U.S. economy: The labor market is extraordinarily strong…
…may be in the market for stocks and bonds, that’s not the only thing that he has caused to crash. The trust market has crashed. The market for democracy has…
…himself of the Federal Reserve’s Jerome Powell. Makes sense to me?!? Brief and an easy read with charts and graphs. ~~~~~~~ Weekly Stock Market Update for August 8 Equity markets…
…tariff games up and down and who makes deals and who does not. That is enough to create uncertainty in the market. “There are factors likely reducing the demand for…
…easy and inexpensive to enter and exit the market for anti-bad things software, the market is literally global (you can buy software made anywhere and download it from your desk…
…The trend I have been looking for in the past several years is the rebalancing of the new and existing homes markets. Existing home inventory has been removed from the…