…two quibbles with Dean’s discussion: The process of raising the price of imported goods to people in the U.S. through an increase in the value of foreign currencies (which also…

…balance owed on the car is $10,223, but the car’s value is only $7,675. Currently, the Bankruptcy Code treats $7,675 of the car loan as a secured (collateralized) debt, and…

…appointed by the Social Security Advisory Board. The report recommended that the infinite-horizon deficit figure should be presented as a percent of payroll, and next to the value of payrolls…

…is sure not to be misled — then how about this? That $10.4 trillion number represents the value of economic assets today that would have to be contributed to the…

…avoid such risk then real economic value is created. And in fact, this happens in the real world all the time. Consider a group of 100 people, each of whom…

…The profits from service activities also would not qualify as QPAI. But why distinguish between value-added created in most of the U.S. economy versus certain types of value-added created in…

…a huge change in the value of the US dollar will be required. A 5 or 10 percent decline in the value of the dollar will do little to improve…

Kerry’s proposed $7 minimum wage John Kerry is proposing setting the minimum wage at $7. This graph provides a nice time series of the nominal v. real value of the…

…reinvest the tax received from prepayment under a Roth IRA in an equivalent investment, the value of its investment would be exactly equal to the tax payment due upon distribution…

…spent hundreds of hours assembling data sets that were far less challenging than theirs — this is not a trivial task. And the value of that data set is high,…