Last week, Governor Patrick proposed increasing the income tax and eliminating over $1.25 billion worth of deductions to “support our…
Sooner or later the U.S. tax code will be reformed. Probably sooner. Raising revenue will be the main motivation, but issues of fairness as…
Though the dust from the election has barely settled — the nation has already moved on.
Consuming our attention now is the budget crisis…
For a United States citizen, the short trip to Havana requires navigating an obstacle course, owing to the trade and travel embargo that…
We conduct and analyze two large surveys of hypothetical annuitization choices. We find that allowing individuals to annuitize a fraction…
Conventional wisdom suggests that after a spectacular economic performance during the 1970s and 1980s, Japan has endured two “lost decades…
The United States is famous for its ability to innovate. Aspiring fiscal conservatives around the world thus might be interested in…
Five years after the onset of the 2007 subprime financial crisis, U.S. gross domestic product per capita remains below its initial level.…
As we head into the final weeks of the presidential election, the Romney campaign’s hopes remain fixed on the economy. Specifically, Romney…
It is the mark of science and perhaps rational thought more generally to operate with a falsifiable understanding of how the world operates…