Mike Konzcal reviews Lost Decades by Menzie Chin and Jeffrey Friedan at New Deal 2.0: What caused the housing bubble? This is a different, though related, question from what caused…

This is a 7 minute video that looks at the way money has reduced the voter population that counts down to a handful. Sure, we all get to vote, but…

…the audit committee for 6 years. During that period, the company has used aggressive tax avoidance deals, including (i) the “Son of BOSS” tax shelter structure for generating artificial losses…

Angry Bear archives reminds us of the longstanding strategies embedded in the current political debate, and trial balloons of possible current Super Committee proposals November 22, 2011. The Social Security…

OMB Watch points us to the idea that: Financial Taxes Can Raise Revenues, May Help Stabilize Markets The congressional Super Committee, tasked with forging a $1.2 trillion deficit reduction package…

…Dog democrats anymore than a figleaf of cover. Update: Baucus comes out strong against Conrad-Gregg, though mostly it seems because he doesn’t want to have his Committee bypassed. http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/10/baucus-dont-outsource-my-committee/ This…

…pass-throughs, by the way, will continue to lavish tax benefits on an already super-coddled wealthy class–those who run real estate development businesses through partnership structures (the Trump empire, for one),…

…Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel because of all the turbulence on so many fronts going on. So it occurred to me that the committee…

…one. The head of the Alabama Democratic Party (most emphatically not part of the Wallace faction), he served on the arrangements committee, which promoted the important improvements it made over past…

…House Budget Committee on January 10, 1995. He told the Committee the inflation rate was probably overestimated by 0.5% to 1.5%. If Greenspan was correct, this was a godsend. Social…