9 days ago by By UWE E. REINHARDT

The opacity surrounding health care prices and the practice of charging different buyers different prices for identical goods or services contribute mightily to the cost of health care, but at the least the former may be on the way out, an economist writes.

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12 days ago by By BRUCE BARTLETT

It's hard to overhaul the tax code without an outline upfront of what is intended, which can be used to weigh the impacts of proposed changes against one another, an economist writes.

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18 days ago by parkercountyblog

Laffer Center: Buffett’s call for higher taxes would “worsen the federal budget deficit and lead to a further weakening of the economy” _______________________________________________________ Proposed “Buffett Rule” would confiscate income from entrepreneurs while exempting Buffett’s main sources of ...

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27 days ago by Winston

This is a very wonkish exploration. You have been warned. Our current economic circumstances as defined by European (and by some measure American) fiscal and monetary experiments offer us a unique glimpse into how nearly three decades dominated by with supply-side tax policies have a direct impact o ...

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29 days ago by Phil Scarr

The only issue that matters in the 2012 election is the income disparity between rich and poor. And the fact that, as a whole, people are not seeing the benefits of the growth in GDP. That red line is 1980 (about) when America embarked on a reckless experiment with supply-side economics. This chart ...

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32 days ago by Phil Scarr

Pre-science-ism run wild! The irrationality of the Rational Hypothesis… The author of Debunking Economics fires a broadside at the entire enterprise of neoclassical economics. He exposes the falsehoods and frauds that underlie much of our macroeconomic thinking. Fallacies abound in this 1/2 hour vid ...

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39 days ago by Panderbear

Panderbear is a chart-a-holic. A well-designed chart can convey a fundamental truth with astonishing clarity and conciseness. This particular chart plots average inflation-adjusted income in the post-WWII era as a percent of 1979 levels. The data displayed show that until the administration of Presi ...

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59 days ago by Winston

Danziger encapsulates the vapidity of supply-side economics and its wealth disparity offspring.

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62 days ago by David Weinberger

In a recent speech in Kansas, President Obama launched a diatribe against “trickle-down” economic policies. Not only did President Obama mischaracterize conservative tax policy, but facts rebut his claim that these policies have been a failure. The President began by invoking his understanding of co ...

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62 days ago by joejolly

America’s neocons have done what no man has ever done before. The neocons have splintered the Western alliance of capitalism. And perhaps America is having a difficult time coming into the realization that it may have squandered a chance to retain the confidence of the capitalism world. The source o ...

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