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12 Jun 2019, 7:33 am by Colby Pastre
Martin Feldstein (center) is awarded the 1999 Tax Foundation Distinguished Service Award for his private-sector contributions to tax policy as president of the National Bureau of Economic Research. [read post]
26 Mar 2009, 8:13 am
Here is what Harvard Economist Martin Feldstein had to say in the yesterday's Washington Post: President Obama's proposal to limit the tax deductibility of charitable contributions would effectively transfer more than $7 billion a year from the nation's charitable institutions... [read post]
27 Feb 2017, 12:51 pm by Daniel Shaviro
But - less than a year ago Feldstein wrote a piece entitled "America's Exploding Deficit. [read post]
20 Jul 2010, 1:57 pm by Daniel Shaviro
Today's WSJ op-ed is available as such to subscribers only, but you can find the full text of it on Feldstein's webpage here.Unfortunately, as a general matter only principled or genuine conservatives, rather than the right-wingers who play the role on TV and dominate the Republican Party, accept the central point of TE analysis that a targeted special-purpose tax cut is substantively equivalent to the hated "government spending. [read post]
14 May 2009, 3:15 am
Wall Street Journal op-ed: Tax Increases Could Kill the Recovery, by Martin Feldstein (Harvard University, Department of Economics): The barrage of tax increases proposed in President Barack Obama's budget could, if enacted by Congress, kill any chance of an early... [read post]
29 Aug 2012, 12:00 pm by Paul Caron
Wall Street Journal op-ed: Romney's Tax Plan Can Raise Revenue, by Martin Feldstein (Harvard University, Department of Economics): Mitt Romney's plan to cut taxes and offset the resulting revenue loss by limiting tax breaks has been attacked as "mathematically impossible. [read post]
8 Oct 2009, 9:41 am
Martin Feldstein offers the best possible two-paragraph summary of the health care problem:The American health-care system suffers from three serious problems: Health-care costs are rising much faster than our incomes. [read post]
24 Oct 2011, 6:05 am by Paul Caron
Wall Street Journal op-ed, The Tax Reform Evidence From 1986, by Martin Feldstein (Harvard University, Department of Economics): Experience implies that the combination of base broadening and rate reduction would raise revenue equal to about 4% of existing tax revenue. [read post]
4 Dec 2008, 3:58 am
Martin Feldstein has been pushing a mortgage bailout proposal that has been getting some undeserved attention (see here and here, e.g.). [read post]
19 Oct 2010, 3:50 pm by buslawblogger
Over the weekend, Economist Martin Feldstein stated that there are currently... [read post]
11 Jan 2011, 5:13 am by Simon Lester
 Martin Feldstein thinks these imbalances will, for the most part, take care of themselves, without any grand international plan to fix them. [read post]
1 Jun 2009, 11:37 am
Reagan-era economist Martin Feldstein weighed in on the current cap-and-trade plan under consideration in Congress with an op-ed in today's Washington Post. [read post]
2 Sep 2008, 5:52 pm
McCain economic advisors Martin Feldstein (Harvard) & John B. [read post]
23 Jan 2008, 9:20 pm
The witnesses scheduled to testify are: Martin Feldstein, Baker Professor of Economics, Harvard University; President and CEO, National Bureau of... [read post]
23 Jan 2008, 9:20 pm
The witnesses scheduled to testify are: Martin Feldstein, Baker Professor of Economics, Harvard University; President and CEO, National Bureau of... [read post]
20 May 2014, 1:12 pm by Paul Caron
Following up on my previous posts on the new book by Thomas Piketty (Paris School of Economics), Capital in the Twenty-First Century (Harvard University Press, 2014): Wall Street Journal op-ed: Piketty's Numbers Don't Add Up, by Martin Feldstein (Harvard): Thomas Piketty has recently attracted widespread attention for his claim that... [read post]