…a budget balancer) Maybe Max does not wish a return to Rubinomics, but I do. The main point of Max’s post is to endorse the Censure resolution. This one is…

…was floating helped shift the public debate from one about a purportedly necessary and inevitable reform, to one about a political ploy that looked like backfiring. Finally, Max also weighs…

Max Sawicky reads the latest from the Heritage Foundation and is very kind: Tax increases (actually, preventing scheduled phase-out of tax cuts, but no matter) are contractionary. People have less…

…them loved to scream “at least it doesn’t suck”. Max Sawicky seems to say the same thing about the U.S. economy: Whatever its merits, the elimination of the public debt…

…follows suit, while Max Sawicky tries to finds common ground: we know what we don’t like: the Fed tightening up while the unemployment rate is 5.2 percent. I think what…

…where did Bush get this idea? I find even more interesting this discussion between Tyler Cowen and Max Sawicky. Tyler suggests a gradual freeze. While Max objects, he agrees with…

…have the legal right to rob the lock box. Any objections? Hooey! Next, an odd exchange between Martin Sabo and Derrick Max from the Club for Rich People: U.S. Rep….

Max Sawicky has another excellent post this time commenting on what seems to be a revival of Model 2 from the Bush Social Security commission. Little Nell is a typical…

Economists Who Should Know Better Via the new Bush Blog, Max Sawicky caught a WSJ editorial (editorial here, subscription required) by three very sharp labor economists who should know better….

…and the out-of-pocket max to generate the $2 per year maximum increase. But surely her old policy had an out-of-pocket exposure, too, and if its max was close to the…