Political economics

Yes the polls in New Hampshire only closed about 30 minutes ago but it appears there's enough insight to write a post now rather than to...

I was up fairly late last night watching a surprisingly interesting Iowa caucus outcome.  This morning, it appears to be pretty clear.  Hill...

There's lots of discussion back and forth on various blogs on the executive power debate generating lots of commentary about whether its...

The always wonderful Tax Policy Center has just published a wonderful piece of work on taxes and spending since 2000.  You can find it here ...

There's a bit of a raging debate going on over whether people are going to be better or worse off under the coverage provisions of the A...

Over the last little while, the defenders of the ACA have been making the argument that those hit by losing their existing coverage are ...

Rather than post an incredibly long response in a thread on a similar topic, I've decided to write a fairly long blog post instead.  The...

This is a truly sad time to be an American.  One cannot help but watch the current squabbles over the funding of the government and the debt...

One of the things we read all too often on the web is about the gross revenue impact of the "Bush tax cuts."  It's so often sa...

This post from Ezra Klein exemplifies the type of argumentation that will be used by the administration to encourage the young to make bad ...

Back in the days of the ARRA debate, a great deal was made of a study by Mark Zandi and Alan Blinder that described the effects of the stimu...

Several commentators have made the point that the President's budgetary savings are back end loaded.  I wanted to test this theory so I ...

The following appeared in an article at The Hill online Republicans are betting that the public will be receptive to the Ryan plan’s meas...

Now that the House and Senate have passed their respective budgets, I thought it might be useful to do a comparison, at a high level, betwee...

One can always count on the New York Times editorial board for misleading commentary on matters budgetary.  Here is their latest installme...