…cost savings and efficiencies generated by a more competitive and value-driven health care system. The Business Roundtable Health Care Value Index – Executive Summary | Business Roundtable. Cross-posted at Asymptosis….

…annual tuition at Providence College today. $1.80 per hour is equivalent to the following: $14.40/hour standard of living, $17.80 real value, $18.20 unskilled labor and $22.00/hour production labor. Tuition of…

…to a more reasonable amount such as the interest on a loan that is 80% of the value of the median-priced US home. Charitable contribution deduction for value rather than…

…the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, about how FDR had him and soon to be Treasury Secretary Morgenthau help him (FDR) revalue the price of gold. Now, I am not an economic…

…when he claims that the Fed can’t target nominal GDP when we are in a liquidity trap. I would define targeting X as making the conditional expected value of X…

…than the ones listed above. In SSI or any other means-tested program today, all income and any assets, no matter how small in dollar or market value, have to be…

…deductions alone, what you do is massively increase the value of the deductions. The home mortgage interest tax deduction, for example, is both distributively regressive and also economically damaging by…

…its PPP estimate of fair value diverged throughout the year. The spot rate became increasingly undervalued, hitting a wide in October 2000 (according to Bloomberg estimates of PPP). This seems…

…intended to delay consideration of the issue past the 1984 election. During that year, the Treasury tax policy office had conducted among other things an analysis of the Value-Added Tax,…

…a 29% drop in ‘value’ of its assets: $ 25,318,713,892 2007 $ 17,177,957,406 2008 $ 19,311,587,953 2009 $21,262,462,000 2010 Via Andrew Leonard at Salon comes this quote from the CEPR…