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Secular Stagnation and Sacred Neoliberal Dogma
by Dan Kervick, New Economic Perspectives Brad DeLong doesn’t like what Clive Crook is saying about Larry Summers. According to DeLong: When Larry Summers said: Even a great bubble [first in high-tech and then in housing] wasn’t enough to produce any excess of aggregate demand…. Even with artificial stimulus to demand, coming from all this …
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Taxing The 1%: Why The Top Tax Rate Could Be Over 80%
by Thomas Piketty, Emmanuel Saez and Stefanie Stantcheva Originally published in Voxeu.org 08 December 2011. The top 1% of US earners now command a far higher share of the country’s income than they did 40 years ago. This article looks at 18 OECD countries and disputes the claim that low taxes on the rich raise …
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Real Time Withholding Tax Data Accurately Forecast September Payrolls And The August Revision
by Lee Adler, Wall Street Examiner Here’s what I wrote Saturday in the Professional Edition Treasury update about what the real time withholding tax data told us about the likely non-farm payrolls report.