Source: Barron’s
Donald Trump and Other Republicans Are Unemployment “Truthers”
Bruce Bartlett is an economist who has worked on Capitol Hill, the White House and the Treasury Department. ~~~ Among Donald Trump’s...
Thinking About Prices in the Distant Future
A couple of words about how Friday’s column, What Investors Should Ask Themselves, came about. When I initially...
More Evidence of the Folly of Forecasting
Oil’s Rebound and Other Wrong-Way Forecasts People keep making predictions, though they’re almost always incorrect....
A Dubious Lawyer’s Dubious Tax Claims Against Vanguard
The Dubious Tax Case Against Vanguard Rules to prevent offshore tax evasion don’t apply to the fund giant. Bloomberg, February 8,...
Treasury Department Tries Its Own QE/Operation Twist
It is usually several months later in the year that I begin my annual lament over the state of the U.S. federal budget. Not so much the...
Its Time to Kill Ethanol Once and For All
Enough With Ethanol Turning corn into fuel is a huge waste that needs to stop. Bloomberg, February 3, 2016 With the...
Trump & the Media
And they said the internet would kill big media. Trump never had a chance. America might be angry, but it does not want a blowhard...
Minimum Wage Update
@TBPInvictus here: If you’ve been paying attention to the ongoing minimum wage debate, there have been some recent developments....
2016: The Infrastructure Election
The Infrastructure Election U.S. roads, bridges, ports and tunnels are a disgrace. Bloomberg, February 1, 2016. ...