…more effective than after-the-fact mopping up.’ Milibrand agrees. Noting the high human cost of austerity, he said, ‘We need to care about predistribution as well as redistribution.’ After trying ‘to…

…the private equity firm. Julie Creswell and Reed Adelson, A Giant Hospital Chain is Blazing a Profit Trail, New York Times (Aug. 15, 2012), at A1 (noting that Medicare reimbursements…

…Kohn, Paul Ryan didn’t build that!Salon.com (Aug. 14, 2012) (noting that the Ryan family, starting with his great-grandfather building railroads, has profited from government contracts over more than a century,…

…GOP opposition to tax increases and the possibility of cutting defense spending, even though the US is winding down some of its current active wars. Dean kindly avoids noting that…

…swaps.) The authors of the legislation beg to differ, noting that the statute was drafted to permit hedges of specific asset but not portfolio-wide heding practices that become almost indiscernible…

…the amount handed to shareholders. The ratio has been dropping steadily ever since… …it is worth noting that even credit analysts these days tend to measure debt in relation to…

…national level data, state and local data, or anything in between. Here’s a post I wrote not that long ago noting that when top marginal tax rates are below about…

by Mike Kimel Ayn Rand v. Thomas Aquinas in Paul Ryan’s Mind Think Progress piece on Paul Ryan. Think Progress has a post noting that though Paul Ryan used to…

…deferred taxes as though they were already paid. Deferred taxes, however, are just an accounting way of noting the possibility of future taxes–they may never be paid (for example, if…

…the Lucas critique are not vulnerable to the Lucas critique. Noting this tautology, I have conceded nothing at all. Beyond these two non concessions I will not go. Internally consistent…