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Obama, Bush, Mankiw: A Look Taxes, Spending, and Bull#@% in the Great Recession

by cactusObama, Bush, and Mankiw: A Look Taxes, Spending, and Bull#@% in the Great RecessionThis post serves as a quick follow-up to my previous post on real GDP per capita growth and the tax...

Started in Angry Bear • 7 days ago • 0 responses
Get Ready to Throw Momma from the Train

It's coming closer:Once the tax expires, those inheriting estates after Dec. 31 will have to pay capital gains taxes on any asset sold. The cost will be based on the original price of the property,...

Started in Angry Bear • 7 days ago • 0 responses
Tags: estate tax, politics, paul krugman
Bleg: Spell-Check in Blogger

Does anyone know how to save a word into Blogger's dictionary?I'm really getting tired of ignoring its questions about "DeLong," "Krugman," and "Bernanke."

Started in Angry Bear • 1 week ago • 0 responses
Tags: blogs, meta
Mohamed v. Jeppesen today

Hat tip to Glen Greenwald for following this case and today's presentation for Mohamed v. Jeppesen and Ben Wizner's oral argument at the United States Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit. Slate's...

Started in Angry Bear • 1 week ago • 0 responses
Crouching Lieberman, Smoking Gun

I don't pretend to know Joe Lieberman's motivation, but it's working to perfection if his goal is to divide Party leaders (Obama, Reid, etc.) from the Democratic progressive base. I don't remember...

Started in Angry Bear • 1 week ago • 0 responses
Tags: health care reform
Health Care Provider Taxes

by Tom aka Rusty Rustbelt Health Care Provider Taxes An under-the-radar tax funding scheme is the prevalence of health care providers taxes. Our most current information indicates 44 state have...

Started in Angry Bear • 1 week ago • 0 responses
Another 28 Days

Following up on this post, a 4-week auction over year-end (PDF) that sold at 0.00% interest, with a coverage ratio of 4.4:1. (Yield unchanged from the previous week, and the week before that.)Who...

Started in Angry Bear • 1 week ago • 0 responses
Tags: public debt, solvency crisis, national debt, interest rates, inflation
The Perfect Negative Indicator Weighs In

Alan Greenspan:The U.S. Federal Reserve has done all it can do to reduce unemployment and needs to worry more about the risk of inflation from the stimulus it poured into the economy, former Fed...

Started in Angry Bear • 1 week ago • 0 responses
Tags: frictional unemployment, unemployment, the fed, alan greenspan, inflation
The Blind Leading the Blind, or Why I Don't Do Humor

Via alea's Twitter feed, the Office of the Controller of the Currency—the people who were specifically selected by the company to regulate AIG—has launched a Financial Literacy...

Started in Angry Bear • 1 week ago • 0 responses
Tags: regulatory capture, aig, finance
Health Care Reform--Even More of a Gift

The last even semi-useful part of health care "reform" (and that was of dubious value) is dead:The idea of letting people ages 55 to 64 buy into Medicare, announced just last week, had threatened to...

Started in Angry Bear • 1 week ago • 0 responses
Tags: health care reform, bad economics, politics
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