Tag: Taxes
Concerns effects of taxes
Blowing Up the New Keynesian Model
Demolition Explosion! Photo Credit: U.S. Department of Energy I am beginning to see suggestions that it is time to blow up New Keynesian economics to smithereens … Read More
The First of the BEPS Refugees
Leaving the U.S. for more salubrious climes! Photo Credit: free images.com/Oziris Last June 10 I wrote a heads-up about a wave of large corporations possibly leaving the United … Read More
What Does Falling Money Velocity Tell Us?
A falling dollar? Image Credit: Flickr.com/Horia Varlan In our last post, Should We Expect Inflation or Deflation?, we discovered several things about why … Read More
The Ideal Tax Regime – 2
In the last post on tax policy I suggested six attributes the ideal federal or state income tax regime should have. I reproduce them below. Taxes should not favor some … Read More
The Ideal Tax Regime – 1
Taxes are nothing but destructive to all parts of society with the exception of government and its employees. Unless you are obscenely rich or abjectly poor, you probably have your … Read More
Economic Effects of Current Tax Policy
One of the biggest sources of problems government imposes on individuals, businesses and the economy is taxes. It has truly been said that “the power to tax is the power … Read More
In Which States Does $100 Buy The Most?
Last week on July 8 The Tax Foundation published a report entitled The Real Value of $100 in Each State. In their study they took data from The U.S. Bureau … Read More
France in Distress
My sister-in-law has just sent us the URL of a truly amazing news video about France and the economic and social troubles it is undergoing. Click here to see it. … Read More
Why Did the Great Depression Last So Long?
Because of the complexity of the Great Depression, there are several different ways in which you can date the beginning and ending of this immense event. Many people date the … Read More
Beware BEPS!
The acronym BEPS stands for “Base Erosion and Profit Shifting” and the BEPS project is an effort by the OECD to study perceived flaws in international tax rules. The perception that multinational … Read More