…Beckworth—might agree that it would provide for easier remedies, but I’m not convinced it would provide for a better market, since arbitrage opportunities and issues of asymmetric information would be…

…for a course I’m sure he took which I took (pass/fail)). The argument is well known and, as yet, unrefuted. Salaten is noting it in passing and not engaging it…

…and if the formula is below market rates, then the Trust Fund is subsidizing the General Fund. Odd – we have covered this already noting that one of Bush’s plans…

Pandagon’s Don’t Pay Attention To Your Wallet…It’s Being Silly takes on this Bruce Bartlett oped by noting: The gist of it is that the middle class is only shrinking because…

Stephen Moore CalPundit made a great catch, noting that Stephen Moore, president of the Club for Growth (a lobbying group devoted to Supply Side policies–Moore is on CNN, Fox, …,…

…in the long run by creating dependency is extremely influential. The evidence supports the opposite conclusion. Here I note Yglesias noting Moises Velazquez-Manoff noting another study. here’s a great writeup…

…be? There is also this report today: New Study Finds Therapy, Antidepressants Equally Effective At Monetizing Depression NORMAN, OK—Noting that similar outcomes were achieved under both approaches, a landmark decade-long…

I had an interesting web experience. My tweet noting that the US Treasury made a profit on TARP got a relatively large number of replies. Many people were outraged in…

…8 years); Scott Pruitt, Testifying to Lead E.P.A., Criticizes Environmental Rules, New York Times (Jan. 18, 2017) (noting Pruitt’s hearing testimony criticizing federal rules protecting air and water and addressing…

…of my angrybear obsessions was noting the solid to overwhelming majorities in all polls dating back to 1992 who have told Gallup that “upper income people” pay less than their…