…financial assets’, by Peter Dizikes, MIT News Office: It is a central worry of many Americans: not having enough money to live comfortably in old age. Now an innovative paper…

…possibly by claiming zero value for partnership interests; use of aggressive tax sheltering transactions to ‘create’ capital losses to offset substantial capital gains, resulting in the net capital loss carryforward…

Given Ryan’s release of his new plan calling for territorial taxation of corporations comes this example of Apple from Kenneth Thomas, Middle class political economist econoblog: Apple Whines About Having…

…mathematically correct but practically challenged Chicago School approach to understanding economic systems (by assuming away most of the real world, including life, death, and everything in between)– corporate lobbyists and…

…Iraq, that the Iran debate is breaking down along largely the same lines, and the people who were manifestly, painfully wrong about that war are driving the debate this time…

…have good wages and benefits. Bring ’em all down to the dog eat dog world where the 1% will lord it over and the 99% can grovel. There’s a good…

…tax the return to saving and investment. By not taxing the return to saving and investment, these taxes reduce the cost of capital and lead to greater investment. Greater investment…

…doing so since 1943, one thing we should expect is that the percent of occupied housing units that are owner-occupied (as opposed to renter occupied) in NYC is much higher…

…I make a point to put down my coffee when reading Yasha, to avoid expensive and embarrassing spit-takes. Just a week ago he gave us this: More Great Moments In…

…All three asserted that economists know something to be true, when elementary lectures are devoting to proving that it is false. (Dan here….some minor formatting was done for easier reading)…