From The NYT and economist Greg Mankiw, Why Taxing Fairly Means Not Taxing Inheritances: Excerpt: From my perspective, the estate tax is a bad way to tax the rich because it violates a principle that economists call horizontal equity. The
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The left is hampered as much by moral superiority as by intellectual arrogance. The right tend to think the left is ignorant. If they would only read, ” (fill in the blank).” The right will likely acknowledge that the left
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from Nicholas Kristof in the New York Time, When Whites Just Don’t Get It, Part 6 Why do we discriminate? The big factor isn’t overt racism. Rather, it seems to be unconscious bias among whites who believe in equality but
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A NYT article, The Debate About America’s Best Days about Robert Gordon’s The Rise and Fall of American Growth sounds like another academic pontificating how our best days are behind us. Reminds me of economists from the 1970s and early
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Health Care Law Forces Businesses to Consider Growth’s Costs by Stacy Crowley at The New York Times When LaRonda Hunter opened a Fantastic Samshair salon 10 years ago in Saginaw, Tex., a suburb of Fort Worth, she envisioned it as the
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from The New York Times, Stop Universities From Hoarding Money by Victor Fleischer excerpt SAN DIEGO — WHO do you think received more cash from Yale’s endowment last year: Yale students, or the private equity fund managers hired to invest the
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from the New York Times, Stores Suffer From a Shift of Behavior in Buyers by Hiroko Tabuchi excerpts: Data released by the Commerce Department shows that American consumers are putting what little extra money they do have to spend each
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In today’s (8/5/15) New York Times opinion section popular columnist and noted author Thomas Friedman wrote My Question for the Republican Presidential Debate a few excerpts: But can they (the GOP candidates) run, win and govern from the center-right when
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from The Sunday New York Time Book Review, Revolutionary Roads by George Packer; a review of By the People by Charles Murray and Wages of Rebellion by Chris Hedges: excerpts: But the most interesting aspect of these two books is
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from the New York Times Sunday June 28, 2015, All in the Family Guys– an interview with Set McFarlane and Norman Lear: SM: Not today. If you make a thoughtful statement, or even ask a question about an uncomfortable subject today,
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From The New York Times, Why I Can’t Forgive Dylann Roof by Roxane Gay: Excerpt: The call for forgiveness is a painfully familiar refrain when black people suffer. White people embrace narratives about forgiveness so they can pretend the world
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From Maureen Dowd in the New York Times, Driving Uber Mad As The Wall Street Journal recently reported, “There’s an Uber for everything now. Washio is for having someone do your laundry, Sprig and SpoonRocket cook your dinner and Shyp will
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From the New York Times, Maureen Dowd writes An Open Letter to hdr22@clintonemail.com excerpts: Because you assume that if it’s good for the Clintons, it’s good for the world, you’re always tangling up government policy with your own needs, desires,
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Economist Mark Perry writes in his blog Carpe Diem, Evidence shows significant mobility in income and affluence – 73% of Americans will be in ‘top 20%’ for at least a year: Excerpts: quoted from Mark Rank from the New York Times,
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Eamonn Fingleton writes in the New York Times America The Innovative?, 3/31/13 Excerpts: Few of the most creative societies of the ancient world were free. Certainly not Mesopotamia or Egypt. As for the spectacular creativity of early modern Europe, this
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Until Harry Truman wrote his memoirs, the ex-president struggled on an Army pension of $112.56 a month. “I could never lend myself to any transaction, however respectable,” he said, “that would commercialize on the prestige and dignity of the office
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David Stockman writes Sundown in America: How Crony Capitalism has Left Us State Wrecked in the 4/1/13 New York Times. Excerpts: Less than 5 percent of the $800 billion Obama stimulus went to the truly needy for food stamps, earned-income tax credits
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David Brooks writes The Progressive Shift in The New York Times, 3/18/13 Excerpts: The first problem, of course, is that there aren’t enough rich people to cover even the current spending plans. As an analysis by the group Third Way demonstrated, even
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David Stockman writes Sundown in America: How Crony Capitalism has Left Us State Wrecked in the 4/1/13 New York Times. Excerpts: These policies have brought America to an end-stage metastasis. The way out would be so radical it can’t happen. It would
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David Stockman wrote a comprehensive polemic economic analysis in the New York Times Sundown in America: How Crony Capitalism has Left Us State Wrecked Also from the New York Times – A Gallery of Economic Villains and Heroes as a companion piece Some retorts
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