…would have a larger seasonal adjustment, and whether there is any BLS data to support that adjustment? Apparently, employers traditionally hire a lot of people in October for “the Holiday…

…per couple for 2 years, to be delivered via a payroll tax holiday on the first $8100 for each worker. This represents the employee share of the tax (6.2% x…

…hoc solution that Obama criticized when it took the form of a gas tax holiday. It may be a more effective gimmick, but it’s still a gimmick: pure pander. Posted…

Title: Would Oil Suppliers keep a “gas tax holiday” as profit? Let’s look at some real numbers. The following table is excepted from Exxon-Mobil (as a proxy for Oil Supplier)…

…also borrowed an idea supported by many Republicans. In addition to reducing the corporate tax rate, the plan would give American multinational companies a one-year “tax holiday” under which they…

…on my thinking in graduate school and ever since.) Even now, U.S. multinationals are trying to get a “repatriation holiday” that would allow them to bring back $1 trillion in…

…with religious dogma and slogans in the context of political grabs for attention. So the endless claims that the US wages a “war on Christmas” when holiday songs replace religious…

Dan here…this piece is originally published at Oxford University Press by Angry Bear Edward Lambert. by Edward Lambert Thanksgiving and the economics of sharing For this American, my favorite holiday…

…turkey. (I’m not the cook, and I don’t have the recipe; sorry.) But while I have been known to try to persuade friends to buy free-range turkeys for the holiday—Trader…

I was doing my usual reading in the internet world and ran across this comment to another commenter who claimed Labor Day is a made up holiday. A lot of…