Today’s X-Date: GOP members insist they’re worried about the national debt. It ain’t true.
tax policy
Posted inEconomic Policy
The IRS Takes a Welcome Step Into the 20th Century
Maybe by 2100 America can have a proper tax authority.
Posted inPodcasts
The Million Dollar Tweet
Venture capitalist Balaji Srinivasan made one of the worst bets in the history of gambling.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Sen. Tim Scott’s ‘Land of Opportunity’ (Zones)
The presidential hopeful’s signature poverty-fighting policy is a bust.
Posted inBooks
Held Down by Our Bootstraps
Author Alissa Quart says the myth of American individualism is a poor excuse for inequality.
Posted inEconomic Policy
The Taxman Cometh
A new plan from the IRS lays out how the agency intends to revamp itself.
Posted inEconomic Policy
The Beltway’s Favorite Bogus Budget Model
The Penn Wharton Budget Model, bankrolled by finance moguls, is out to grow its power in Washington.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Prisoners of Their Own Device
How Congress underwrites the models that trap American policymaking
Posted inEconomic Policy
Six Ways Existing Economic Models Are Killing the Economy
The alleged science doesn’t match up to the real world.
