…insisting that their governments lower the value of their currencies to increase exports to the U.S. But the U.S. Treasury did not label either country a currency manipulator in its…

…between the empirical world of markets and the putative substrate of “utility”. In the end, the reason for attaching a label like economics to some portion of human activity is…

…race.  Upper-income perusers of books who happen to be black could be vectors of the process just as readily as upper-income whites. Deeper, however, is the problem of assuming a…

…The average is $87,000 per beneficiary. Most of the firms acquired or financed are PCPs or MSOs that typically produce no margins—just an average take-home income of $240,000 per physician….

…see the consequences directly and particularly for the majority of young people, where rent takes up more than 30 percent of their income. And housing isn’t the only system where we see…

…in itself explains why they don’t understand the aims of Progressive Taxation. Label it how you like, the academic discipline that emerged from England in the 18th and 19th century…

…II: this is weird. A trial balloon in the Washington Post. The possible proposal is a payroll tax holiday. I think that is better policy than an income tax rebate,…

…and outside groups. The $400 checks that these families will not get were a big part selling this plan, a way to avoid the “sellout to the wealthy” label. The…

…said about the private sectors of the economy, and why they have not offset at least part of the fiscal “austerity.” Consumption spending is linked to income, so there is…

…costs). Notably, both have become tiny as prices stamped on products have been replaced by bar codes and one label giving a price per item or unit price. Converting instruments…