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31 Jul

Governors & Mayors, America’s Biggest Suckers !

by Barry Ritholtz
Business Loves Government Hand-Holding Everyone from high-tech manufacturers to sports-team owners wring subsidies out of local...

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27 Jul

Bruce Bartlett vs Arthur Laffer

by Barry Ritholtz
Turns out, cutting taxes for the rich IS good for the poor. Michael Rubens gets ghosted by the only guy who can prove it. (NSFW)  ...

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20 Jul

Compare Your Country’s Tax Rate

by Barry Ritholtz
Wait, I thought the USA had the highest tax rate in the world? (lol)   Taxing Wages 2017 Source: OECD  

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19 Jun

John Oliver on Coal

by Barry Ritholtz
We’ve heard a lot of talk about coal miners in the last year, but what are the real issues surrounding coal? John Oliver and a giant...

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19 Jun

Lessons from Kansas Tax-Cutting Experiment

by Barry Ritholtz
The Kansas Supply-Side Experiment Unravels Tax cuts were supposed to spur growth, boost revenue and create jobs. The results were the...

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11 Jun

Medical Spending in Old Age

by Guest Author

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9 Jun

Tax Reform Is Dead

by Barry Ritholtz
Trump’s Economic Agenda Is Almost Dead A once-in-a-generation opportunity is slipping away. Bloomberg, June 9, 2017    ...

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5 Jun

What do the 1% pay in taxes?

by Barry Ritholtz
What do the 1% pay in taxes? Is it enough? Or too much? WSJ’s tax reporter Richard Rubin breaks it down with lots of candy. Source:...

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4 Jun

Wind Projects in the United States

by Barry Ritholtz
Very interesting — As prices come down, and subsidies fade, I don’t see how this administration puts the toothpaste back in...

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25 May

The U.S. Spends More Public Money on Healthcare Than Sweden or...

by Barry Ritholtz
Every time I see the chart below (or some variation of it) I find myself astonished: The American health care system is broken; we spend...

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      Barry L. Ritholtz is co-founder, chairman, and chief investment officer of Ritholtz Wealth Management LLC. Launched in...

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