…to). What does it all mean? Most incoming governments have pushed a reform agenda and have been badly mauled for doing so. The reform window is in the process of…
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…reform. I doubt the reform has even dented the rate of growth. There’s only one way to reduce equilibrium quantity when supply is infinitely elastic – reduce demand. So to…
Was the Nov. 30 Deadline the Make-or-Break Moment for Obamacare? No . . .
…immediately, the media turned the November 30 deadline into a headline. On November 28,CNN declared: “A moment of truth approaches for President Barack Obama’s signature health care reforms with Saturday’s…
Obama’s Populist Tax Reform Proposal
Barack Obama has released the details of a fairly radical proposal to increase tax progressivity which he will make in his state of the union address. The political impact will…
The Individual Mandate: Has the Obama Administration Silently Repealed the Rule that Virtually Everyone Must Have Health Insurance?
…largely unnoticed, reform’s opponents claim that the swelling list of escape clauses will have a huge impact. By 2016, they say, almost 90% of the nation’s 30 million uninsured will…
OJ Blanchard defends the IMFs interactions with Greece
…the tax administration, to reduced barriers to entry in many professions, to reforms of pensions, to reforms of collective bargaining, to reforms of the judicial system, etc. Many of these…
Paul Krugman Retracts a Key Part of Last Friday’s ‘Sanders Over the Edge’ Op-ed: That Sanders, rather than the New York Daily News editorial board members, don’t know what Dodd-Frank authorizes the federal government to do concerning ‘systemically important’ (a.k.a., too-big-to-fail) financial institutions. Good for him.
…that firms will be bailed out. Back in 2012 Mitt Romney described this part of reform as “a kiss that’s been given to New York banks” (they never miss an…
Welfare Reform Horror in Mississippi
Bryce Covert and Josh Israel report Last year, 11,717 low-income residents of Mississippi applied to get a meager government benefit to help them make ends meet. The state’s welfare program,…
Republicans Can Seize a Political Opportunity by Backing Student Loan Reform
Allan Collinge is the founder of the Student Loan Justice Organization a grassroots citizen’s organization dedicated to returning standard consumer protections to student loans. The group was started in March…
Tax cuts and tax reform
Bruce Bartlett’s twitter comments offer a look at one of this September’s issues….
