…time you retire real wages will have about doubled. That means that the 16% workers are paying in each year will be worth twice as much as the 16% you…

…which is not strictly economic in nature but well worth discussing. The category Politics might be used to address the more political in the term political ‘economics’. More to come….

This video featuring Bruce Bartlett and Yves Smith on Overhyping the Fiscal Cliff is worth watching. Independent political and economic analysts Bruce Bartlett and Yves Smith join Bill in a…

Worth reading the whole article. Robert Eisner, Budget deficits and rhetoric, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 1989 (Hat tip reader juan)…

…of Year Two at 100 or one year’s worth of Year Three cost. Now in our model the 5% nominal yield on Trust Fund assets (mostly invested in a mirror…

…do not think this is a slamdunk falsehood as some people believe, but it is certainly worth revisiting”… in order to convince you dear reader that while it is not…

…worth pointing out here the work of Jonathan Haidt et al showing that conservatives have a big “purity” and “disgust” dimension to their moral roadmap, a dimension that is largely…

…bombardment. When it is sorted out or on our new wordpress platform I hope to return us to open comments. The convenience to readers is worth the effort. Thanks to…

…means some of those credits and deductions, counted as assets on the balance sheet, would be worth less, since lower tax bills would mean fewer opportunities to use them before…

A short video worth watching: (hat tip David Zetland)…