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Political Economy 201: Taxes in General and Capital Gains and Dividend Taxes in Particular

Political Economy 201: Taxes in General and Capital Gains and Dividend Taxes in Particular

Whether or not to extend the Bush Tax Cuts on capital gains and dividends is a question both divisive and urgent.  They’re due to expire in less than a month.  How can we keep them when we have huge deficits ...Read more

Political Economy 102: The Proper Framework for Analyzing Government Spending

Political Economy 102: The Proper Framework for Analyzing Government Spending

Almost three weeks ago – on November 10, to be exact, Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles , bipartisan co-chairs of Obama’s  National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, released a draft of what they believe is the best way to ...Read more

Political Economy 101: Reforming the Tax Code

Political Economy 101: Reforming the Tax Code

Almost two weeks ago – on November 10, to be exact, Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles released a draft of what they believe is the best way to start fixing America’s Number One Problem: burgeoning – and already huge — ...Read more

Jeevan ka Parihas: The “Irony of Life” as Obama Visits India

Jeevan ka Parihas: The “Irony of Life” as Obama Visits India

Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize as a young President who chose to continue and even accelerate the war in Iraq (admittedly in an effort to end it – but still!!!) and ramp up military efforts in Afghanistan and ...Read more

Getting Rational about Taxes: Should Bush-43’s Tax Cuts Expire?

Getting Rational about Taxes: Should Bush-43’s Tax Cuts Expire?

The Bush-43 tax cuts are due to expire automatically on January 1, 2011.  In the midst of huge and escalating deficits, this is one area in which activists President Obama and his Democrat Congress appear content to remain passive.  So ...Read more

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