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17 Oct 2018, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
Along with many other economists, I continue to believe that the Fed’s target annual inflation rate of two percent is too low, because (for reasons too technical to describe here) low inflation gives the central bank too little leeway in fighting recessions. [read post]
22 Aug 2018, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
For example, inequality has become so extreme that, according to an article in The Washington Post summarizing a report from the National Low Income Housing Coalition, there are no longer any places in America where a minimum-wage worker can afford to live in a two-bedroom apartment.Yet conservatives refuse even to discuss increasing minimum wages, and the self-described “pure” conservatives even insist that minimum wage laws are an unnatural abomination that prevents markets… [read post]
2 Aug 2018, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
In one respect, it obviously is not; but that is only a small part of the story.Even with low inflation, holding an investment for a number of years can result in an increasingly incorrect computation of gain. [read post]
27 Jun 2018, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
The low-profile case with a tax angle that I mentioned at the beginning of this column is Wisconsin Central Ltd. v. [read post]
2 May 2018, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
In the resulting bidding war, low-income residents lose out to people who have more resources. [read post]
23 Apr 2018, 8:28 am by Dan Carvajal
The other holds that, for reasons ranging from the power of incumbency to low-information voting to agency problems in government, the fact that most voters do not, say, favor a property tax increase provides little assurance that one will not be imposed on them.[8] It is the latter theory that is at the heart of the property tax limitation regime: the idea that, if elected officials will not listen to the voters, then the voters must take matters into their own hands. [read post]
10 Apr 2018, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
This is, of course, complicated by the possibility that vote totals do not reflect overall preferences (due, for example, to low voter turnout by the majority party’s voters in safe districts). [read post]
26 Mar 2018, 6:37 pm by David Frakt
  George Washington University: GW seems to be having some trouble with record keeping. [read post]
26 Mar 2018, 11:38 am by David Frakt
 STCL-H admitted a weak class in 2017, but has recently committed to improving admissions standards and raising its bar passage rate. [read post]
6 Nov 2017, 3:26 pm by Jacob Sapochnick
The Diversity Immigrant Visa Program was established in the 1990s under President George Bush, Sr. for the purpose of making the flow of legal immigration to the United States more diverse. [read post]
24 Oct 2017, 10:58 am by Colby Pastre
Key Findings Early analysis of the distribution of the corporate income tax relied on theoretical models and thought experiments. [read post]
23 Oct 2017, 6:37 am by Colby Pastre
(h) Most of Minneapolis is within Hennepin County and is subject to a 7.775 percent sales tax. [read post]