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More on freshwater economics

…the markets have spoken. When this student had my class in tax, he suddenly found that there were bucket-sized holes in the dyke set up by free marketarianism. For every…

New Year’s Tax Resolutions

…who make $200 million a year have incredibly more freedom of choice, and the few dollars they pay in taxes are merely peanuts compared to the precious funds from an…

War taxes?

…many right-wingers, Ms. Ridenour claims that her goal is supporting “principles of a free market, individual liberty and personal responsibility, combined with a commitment to a strong national defense.” Amy,…

More on the Looming Structural Unemployment Crisis

…response at the Economist’s Free Exchange blog, which said: … in general I am pretty sanguine about the long-term prospects for continued voluntary employment of humans. Technology isn’t free, and…

Wobegone Finance

…simple model of bubbles. Time is discrete. Agents are risk neutral. There are two assets. One is a risk free asset which pays interest rate r. The risk free asset…

What’s Your Top Ten List for Tax Reforms?

…capital gain preference, we should eliminate section 1(h)(11) preferential treatment of corporate dividends. 2. Tax holdings of marketable securities under 475 mark-to-market accounting Those who hold lots of stocks and…

The REH vs the EMH

…= 2. In the model there are 2 assets. 1 is a risk free asset which is the numeraire. one unit of risk free asset gives one unit of consumption…

Right to Water

…person to provide free water to the very poor people. It must be noticed that the same amount is also used in Flanders in Belgium since 1997 for the free

I know an old lady

rdan Subprime by Todd Federman Inspired by “There was an old lady who swallowed a fly”, lyrics by Rose Bonne No money down, two years interest free, Buying a house…

The Paradoxes of Mr. Pond

…for he lived as simply as a workman; but because he really did believe in the old individualistic theory of what he called free contract. The type is almost unknown…