Economics Roundtable
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Political Calculations
Andrew Biggs writes in the WSJ, (emphasis ours, HT: Greg Mankiw)
Going back to the tax rates of the 1990s doesn't mean that households will pay 1990s taxes. Because the tax brackets haven't risen along with incomes, average taxes would be significantly higher, and grow each year. ...
While we have some extra time until we find out if a good part of the data that drives this site is recoverable, we thought it might be fun to take a break from what we're doing in the interim to see what people might be saying about ...
Something bad happened on the way to our planned release of our newest tool this morning, a pretty neat application that would allow you to ...
After reflecting upon a new study showing higher obesity and poorer health outcomes for low income earners in areas without neighborhood grocery stores, the fine folks over at Freakonomics asked:
But what's driving grocery stores to close their doors?Glad you asked! In a nutshell, the ...
Pretty darn much, as it turns out! Here's a snapshot chart for 2006, the last full year for which complete data is available (remember, people were still paying their taxes for 2007 as recently as three weeks ago, and that doesn't count all those who filed for extensions on ...
Welcome to the Friday, May 2, 2008 edition of On the Moneyed Midways, the only place you'll find the best posts from the past week's best money or business-related ...
Or rather, the U.S. economy:
As they say: "Dude, where's my recession?"
More about Wright's Model B ...
How much income tax could the U.S. federal government collect if it collected all the income tax it could?
To find out, we took our model of the
They're most likely reviewing comments on the Internet regarding today's advance release of GDP data for the first quarter of 2008, but following this recent Google search, we have to wonder if we might be doing their jobs for them? And if so, when do ...
When we originally developed our two-quarter GDP bullet thermometer chart as a visual tool that we could use to better describe the overall health of the U.S. economy, we did so to address a deficiency that Bill Polley observed in the traditional definition of a recession ...