- “Erica, obviously some trades will go offshore, but we can look at the example of the UK where the government”
Posted on "Financial Transactions Tax" Comes before "Value-Added Tax" November 11, 2009 6:22 AM - “Jon, you should be fair to libertarians. A true libertarian would be opposed to patent protection (a government granted monopoly),”
Posted on Medical Technology Arms Race November 3, 2009 2:56 PM - “There is a very simple and fun way to prevent evasion of this tax. We just give workers 10 percent”
Posted on The $200,000 Insult: Come to Chicago October 22, 2009 3:42 PM - “Private investors are willing to hold several trillion dollars of U.S. government debt at a 3.5 percent interest on 10-year”
Posted on Does Citigroup Need China? October 19, 2009 8:41 PM - “wow, I'm glad everyone is so anxious to pay higher taxes to give money to people for buying a home.”
Posted on The Silliest Form of Stimulus: Homebuyer's Tax Credit by a Mile October 18, 2009 9:09 PM - “White Sox Rule!”
Posted on Won't You Please Come to Chicago? October 12, 2009 12:42 PM - “We can argue whether the housing bubble was intentional, but the fact is that almost none of the economists who”
Posted on Progressives and the Budget Deficit September 29, 2009 4:21 PM - “No problem Ellen, Senator Kennedy was not a magician who could completely overturn political reality. If you expect to find”
Posted on Kennedy's Quick Win for Social Security August 28, 2009 6:08 AM - “wow, some folks here are really off the mark. The core CPI has nothing to do with indexation formulas for”
Posted on Kennedy's Quick Win for Social Security August 26, 2009 11:24 PM - “Actually El Presidente, my side (and Kennedy's) won the CPI wars. If you trust the Boskin Commission's assesment, they claimed”
Posted on Kennedy's Quick Win for Social Security August 26, 2009 7:20 PM - “Fred, please read the post. I was talking about overhauling an incredibly inefficient and outmoded system of drug development.”
Posted on Promises to the Drug Industry: Like Renegotiating NAFTA? August 8, 2009 1:37 PM - “Fred, It depends on the nature of the negotiations. The VA pays about 60 percent of the price that beneficiaries”
Posted on Promises to the Drug Industry: Like Renegotiating NAFTA? August 8, 2009 11:37 AM - “The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (the project that drug spending will rise rapidly over the next decade [http://www.cms.hhs.gov/NationalHealthExpendData/downloads/proj2008.pdf](see”
Posted on Promises to the Drug Industry: Like Renegotiating NAFTA? August 8, 2009 8:05 AM - “yeah, a massive 0.25 percent on the stock trades of the middle class. First, most middle class people have almost”
Posted on Greg Mankiw Argues for a Financial Transactions Tax to Improve Health Care June 28, 2009 2:05 PM - “not that it's terribly important, but I actually did come very close to the peak in selling my condo. The”
Posted on I Tried to Warn Ed June 24, 2009 3:24 PM - “Destor, i did warn people about the stock bubble -- beginning in 1997. if you just wanted to gamble and”
Posted on I Tried to Warn Ed June 23, 2009 5:56 PM - “eds, actually I was doing everything I could to warn people about the housing bubble after July of 2002. I”
Posted on To Get a Systemic Risk Regulator Fire Bernanke June 1, 2009 8:31 PM - “eds, the housing bubble led to record rates of housing construction and therefore a huge oversupply of homes. This is”
Posted on To Get a Systemic Risk Regulator Fire Bernanke June 1, 2009 9:55 AM - “Bob, As one of those manufacturing boosting troglodytes, let me quickly clarify the position (or at least my position) on”
Posted on The Future of Manufacturing, GM, and American Workers (Part II) June 1, 2009 5:46 AM - “come on folks, I am no Bush fan, and he also deserves blame for not having tried to counteract the”
Posted on To Get a Systemic Risk Regulator Fire Bernanke May 31, 2009 9:12 PM - “Shooter, so will they lower the value of the dollar against the yuan (i.e. stop "manipulating" their currency)? That would”
Posted on Economists, Win Back the Respect of Your Children, Support the Third Stimulus! May 29, 2009 5:22 PM - “If house prices were not inflated, then we could have had zero down loans forever. the issue was the bubble”
Posted on How Much Do We Have to Pay Fannie and Freddie Execs to Lose Us Billions? April 5, 2009 4:47 PM - “Todd, I was actually trying to pose a somewhat different question. In the case of Fannie and Freddie the government”
Posted on Dirty No-Longer Secret April 5, 2009 8:58 AM - “Shooter, I think it's wonderful if people want to throw their money in the toilet, but I want to prevent”
Posted on How Much Do We Have to Pay Fannie and Freddie Execs to Lose Us Billions? April 4, 2009 10:32 PM - “Shooter, there is no bureaucratic nightmare here. Fannie and Freddie require an appraisal accompanies every mortgage that they buy. They”
Posted on How Much Do We Have to Pay Fannie and Freddie Execs to Lose Us Billions? April 4, 2009 8:42 PM - “NOFTT, I'm not as optimistic as you about the tax completely wiping out all the short-term traders. After all the”
Posted on Europe's Leaders Must Say "Stimulus" April 2, 2009 10:41 AM - “It's great to see that we have so many big-spenders here. At a time when you have lots of nutballs”
Posted on Geithner's Plan Will Tax Main Street to Make Wall Street Richer March 31, 2009 1:30 PM - “Just to add to comments previously made (btw, I will claim priority over Krugman in having I told you so”
Posted on Two Lingering Questions for Krugman March 31, 2009 1:16 PM - “Dan, The banks can do whatever they want, but not with the taxpayers' dollars. The Geithner program is a subsidy”
Posted on Geithner's Plan Will Tax Main Street to Make Wall Street Richer March 31, 2009 5:47 AM - “Dan K, The government tells AIG to sell enough new shares to cover the $165 million cost of the bonus.”
Posted on Make AIG Shareholders Pay for the Bonuses March 18, 2009 7:56 AM
