Pre-Crisis Financial Company CEO Compensation
Since CEO compensation is back in the news, I thought we might want to revisit this collection of excess via Bailout Nation: Pre-Crisis...
Margin Debt Hits an All-Time High . . . So What?
A Market Indicator That Predicts Nothing Its predictive value is minimal. Bloomberg, April 29, 2015 Every now...
Time to Raise America’s Gas Tax
America, Land of the Pothole U.S. highways are a wreck for no good reason. Bloomberg, April 27, 2015 Get in your car...
Another High Profile Goldman Sachs Litigation SNAFU
Time to dust off the old juris doctor sheepskin, and wonder aloud about the legal advice that Goldman Sachs has gotten over the past...
The Kansas Experiment is Over. Kansas Lost
Every year, right after the April 15 tax deadline, the U.S. Census releases its data on the prior year’s state tax collections. It is...
We Know What’s the Matter With Kansas
@TBPInvictus When pushing his tax cuts for Kansas in July 2012, Governor Sam Brownback wrote: “Our new pro-growth tax policy will be...
Jobless in Seattle? Not Yet, Anyway. Part 2
@TBPInvictus On Wednesday, I threw in my $0.02 about the controversy surrounding the increase in Seattle’s minimum wage. Unlike any...
Jobless in Seattle? Not Yet, Anyway.
@TBPInvictus Barry wrote yesterday about how political bias can corrupt economic analysis. It’s something he and I discuss all the...
Don’t Let Bias Corrupt Your Analysis
Those of you who over the many years have followed some of the thoughts and observations I jot down each morning may have noticed several...
More Economic & Legal Details on Indiana’s RFRA Law
This morning, I described the potential economic cost of the backlash Indiana’s RFRA law. There was some pushback, but emailers...