…that Baucus has been a hindrance to progressive reform of the tax code and financial regulation, I must admit that I do not find his retirement a loss. His chairmanship…

…pursuing short-term fiscal reform, as suggested in the president’s recently released budget, Congress should focus on working toward long-term tax and entitlement reform. via Austerity undone – Economics – AEI….

…representatives in Congress buy into that sad-sack tale that really isn’t true–both in terms of the need to use any revenues generated by tax reform to cut the rates on…

…that they will accomplish “tax reform” before Baucus leaves the Senate in January 2015. I remain unconvinced that this pair will put together the kind of reform that could merit…

…Reserve Board of Governors dates to reform of the Federal Reserve Act in 1935. But requiring Senate confirmation of the president’s nominee for service as chair is a product of…

…Medical Culture I am convinced that at this point in time, the greatest challenge health care reform faces is our medical culture. What we are attempting to reform and transform…

…reform aims is to squeeze some of the waste out of our health care system by reducing overtreatment. But that will require a change in our medical culture: both physicians…

…(we ?) had mistaken views about finance and financial regulation in the 90s. 2) Welfare reform. I have a rule not to discuss that topic here so I won’t go…

…bill that attempted to tie the continuing operations of the government to compliance with Tea Party ideas about getting rid of the health reform legislation duly enacted four years ago….

…made after the President’s fiscal reform commission led by Eskine Bowles and Alan Simpson issued its 2010 report proposing capping or cutting entitlements while lowering or eliminating corporate taxes.The list…