I’m big on adjusting for inflation when measuring the purported positive revenue impact of tax cuts (which makes most of that purported positive impact disappear). But in his blog today, Paul Krugman (who’s, like, good at math and stuff) does me one better and adjusts for population growth: [F]ederal revenues rose 80 percent in dollar [...]
Fed chairman Ben Bernanke made it official this morning: He thinks it would be a good idea for Congress to approve some sort of fiscal stimulus package to aid the ailing U.S. economy this year. And for a guy who tries really hard to avoid taking the sort of political stands that his predecessor Alan [...]
I was on Brian Lehrer’s talk show on cuny.tv (as in the City University of New York) last night, discussing the economy and the presidential race with Vikas Bajaj of the NYT. Sorry for not giving advance notice, but I sort of figured that it’s only available on cable TV in NYC, and most Curious [...]
