…Held by the Public as a Percentage of Total Credit Market Debt Owed That’s a pretty profound secular shift. But far from delivering any obvious conclusions for me, it raises…

…public. That’s ridiculous, and they themselves effectively refute it. They say: For their traditional First Amendment balancing, on one side of the scale, courts have categorized the speech as either…

by Linda Beale Beale debates Cato’s Edwards on the right’s “flat tax”–New Hampshire Public Radio Last Wednesday (Oct. 26, 2011), I debated the Cato Institute’s tax policy guru Chris Edwards…

…investment with broad public benefits — then that sort of investment should be done by public authority, funded by an infrastructure bank. Thus as a general rule fixed assets —…

…of the BCAL: Ireland, Spain, Portugal, Greece, and a couple of other Eurozone economies that are not labeled (Cyprus, Malta, and Slovak Republic). Finally, quadrants I and IV list economies…

…occurred after King Hussein himself went very public with his battle with cancer, putting a public face on the disease. HRH Mired notes that since then, the major cancer treatment…

…contribute that much more to total Public Debt (Intragovernmental Holdings combined with Debt Held by the Public) each year. For example you can say all we ‘really’ owe to Social…

…a certain amount of public goods (infrastructure, public health, confronting the Canadian menace, etc.) for businesses to thrive, and perhaps we currently have too little provision of public goods rather…

Robert Waldmann There is a surprising consensus for having a public option but allowing states to opt out. Paul Krugman likes the idea Josh Marshall likes the idea (and notes…

Robert Waldmann can’t resist writing about health care reform. The actual debate seems very focused on the public option — will the minority of Americans who have access to the…