Real World Consequences of Core Inflation Focus
A pair of not unrelated stories: First, today’s Dumb Headline of the Day, is this annoying piece courtesy of the NYT: Core...
Ease of Doing Business by Country
Pretty cool table, via doingbusiness.org looking at how easy or hard it is to do a variety of business functions in different countries...
The Economic Far Right & the G.O.P.
Interesting Op-Ed by Jonathan Chait in today’s NYT: Captives of the Supply Side. Chait makes the interesting argument that as far...
Bloomberg: CPI Inflation Data is a “Lie”
We have long railed against the absurdity of the CPI data. The ridiculous adjustments, the lack of correlation between CPI prices and...
The Widening Gap Between the Rich and the Super-Rich
Via the Onion, comes this frickin’ hysterical tv panel discussing the all important question: Are America’s Rich Falling...
A Fix for the Alternative Minimum Tax?
My pal David Kotok of Cumberland Advisors reminds us of the following: An AMT fix (HR 2318)! Thank you to Congressmen Andrews and...
China Triple Whammy
Concerned about rampant speculation, China acted today to let some air out of the rapidly inflating equity bubble: • China will raise...
Zero Sum Game (ZSG)
I was surprised at the reaction to the Zero Sum intro yesterday. I keep forgetting there are lots of bad memes and worse ideas that have...
White House Medicare Accounting Tricks
From this week’s Barron’s, comes the latest bit of fiscal dishonesty from the White House: "THIS SPACE...
