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18 Oct

Global Taxes as a Percentage of GDP

by Barry Ritholtz
Interesting graphic article today discussing tax rates in many developed countries, from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and...

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18 Oct

Real World Consequences of Core Inflation Focus

by Barry Ritholtz
A pair of not unrelated stories: First, today’s Dumb Headline of the Day, is this annoying piece courtesy of the NYT: Core...

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12 Oct

Ease of Doing Business by Country

by Barry Ritholtz
Pretty cool table, via doingbusiness.org looking at how easy or hard it is to do a variety of business functions in different countries...

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9 Oct

The Economic Far Right & the G.O.P.

by Barry Ritholtz
Interesting Op-Ed by Jonathan Chait in today’s NYT: Captives of the Supply Side. Chait makes the interesting argument that as far...

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26 Sep

Bloomberg: CPI Inflation Data is a “Lie”

by Barry Ritholtz
We have long railed against the absurdity of the CPI data. The ridiculous adjustments, the lack of correlation between CPI prices and...

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12 Sep

The Widening Gap Between the Rich and the Super-Rich

by Barry Ritholtz
Via the Onion, comes this frickin’ hysterical tv panel discussing the all important question: Are America’s Rich Falling...

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25 Jun

A Fix for the Alternative Minimum Tax?

by Barry Ritholtz
My pal David Kotok of Cumberland Advisors reminds us of the following: An AMT fix (HR 2318)!  Thank you to Congressmen Andrews and...

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18 May

China Triple Whammy

by Barry Ritholtz
Concerned about rampant speculation, China acted today to let some air out of the rapidly inflating equity bubble: • China will raise...

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11 Oct

Zero Sum Game (ZSG)

by Barry Ritholtz
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...

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28 Aug

White House Medicare Accounting Tricks

by Barry Ritholtz
From this week’s Barron’s, comes the latest bit of fiscal dishonesty from the White House:  "THIS SPACE...

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