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by Rusty (STR) The Great Tax Debate Employer-paid health insurance is usually a non-taxable benefit to the employee. IRC S106. Over the years this “loophole” has popped up in various…

By Spencer Required reading: Christina D. Romer of the Council of Economic Advisers Lessons from the Great Depression for Economic Recovery in 2009 I really like her comments on gold,…

…the recession, the greater the change in growth from the preceding period. The snappier the recovery, the greater the change in growth from the recessionary trough. Both of these things…

…than before the Great Recession. To be exact, since 2008 the number of such deals has doubled from about 10 per year (in the previous 10 years) to about 20…

…“worse, the headline kind” leading into the 2008 crash. The Market Monatarists cite this as evidence that the Fed was responsible for turning a potentially pedestrian downturn into the Great…

…Great Inflation Here F could stand for folk. The story that is often told by economists to their students goes as follows. After Phillips discovered his curve, which relates inflation…

…Black People and the Police” If the public really wants meaningful change and wants to make America great again, one critical component would be to reverse the privatization of what…

Via Alternet: Why a Case Against a Dark Money Charter School Group Is Great News for Democracy Billionaire charter school backers in Massachusetts wanted their identities kept secret. In one…

The great recession of 2008-9 followed an extraordinary house price bubble. The sluggish was characterized by a very slow recovery of residential investment. Oddly, the extensive revision of macroeconomic models…