…official made some remarks about the state of financial institutions; later another said a few things about regulatory reform. The funniest moment was when, right after the spiel on regulatory…

Robert Waldmann The proposal made here in “Public Option Harder Ball” received enthusiastic support when it was coincidentally semi proposed as opt-in by Sen Carper (D-Bankruptcy Reform) and modified to…

…economists. They don’t fit together. Long argument after the jump. If we accept principle 1) we ask if a proposed reform will achieve a Pareto improvement help some people while…

…regulatory reform (the less controversial and not budgetary part of the bill) alone would be terrible policy. Then I thought that is the very best feature of splitting the bill….

…Steel declares healthcare reform would result in the same bad public policy as shown in a 1997 VA manual encouraging veterans to commit suicide. The manual which encouraged veterans to…

…of cash such that the individual is indifferent between the reform (moving to state B) and receiving EV_i in cash. The is the money metric benefit of the reform. Obviously…

…the Summer of 1983, smarting under what they called the “fiasco of the last 18 months”, i.e. the Greenspan Commission and subsequent 1983 Reform, the Cato Institute convened a conference…

by Bruce Webb The following three Tables are copied from the Liebman-MacGuineas-Samwick Non-Partisan Social Security Reform Plan to make a couple of points. One is that the plan authors are…

LMS: the Liebman-MacGuineas-Samwick Non-Partisan Social Security Reform Plan. Above we see Tables 1 & 2 of LMS. Its authors are interesting for a couple of reasons. One they are connected…

…support his Soc. Sec. proposals were relying on “different, honest” numbers. Ouch! But Bush kept saying if we delay reform, the cost of reform would go up dramatically. Maybe he…