Wednesday, February 28, 2018

Honey, Who Shrank the Economic Pie?

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Copyright, TheHill.com Last week the White House released the latest Economic Report of the President that, following both statute and tr...
Monday, February 12, 2018

Your job cannot be automated? Then you need to worry!

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Copyright, TheHill.com One of the greatest labor force changes of the 20th century was the movement of workers out of farming. In 1900, m...
Wednesday, December 27, 2017

Some Immediate Benefits of the Corporate Tax Cut

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Copyright, TheHill.com By cutting the statutory corporate tax rate and by permitting investment expenses to be immediately deducted from c...
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Monday, December 18, 2017

At 21% or 20%, new corporate tax rate will boost US economy

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Copyright, TheHill.com Since the 1990s, U.S. corporations have been subject to one of the highest statutory tax rates in the world. The hi...
Monday, November 20, 2017

The ACA's Employer Penalty is Distorting Business

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Taxes and regulations are known to affect the size distribution of businesses, due to the fact that smaller businesses are less subject to e...
Monday, November 13, 2017

Low effective rate not an argument against corporate tax cut

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Copyright, TheHill.com President Trump says that U.S. corporations face the highest tax rates in the world, whereas opponents of his tax r...
Sunday, November 5, 2017

Does Communism have a universal constant? From the October Revolution to Bernie Sanders

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To acknowledge the 100th anniversary of the Russian revolution, I have assembled data -- from Holmes (2009) , Pipes (2001) , Fontova (2013)...
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Friday, November 3, 2017

Stanford University findings on the ACA and the labor market

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Stanford Economics Professor Mark Duggan was quoted as concluding that " While the Affordable Care Act had a significant effect on hea...
Tuesday, October 24, 2017

Delong and Krugman make "math error", while falsely accusing Greg Mankiw of making math error!

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Delong and Krugman are now claiming that the Furman ratio -- defined by Furman himself to be the ratio of wage gains from a corporate-inc...
Sunday, October 22, 2017

What does Summers 1981 say about the long-run incidence of the corporate-income tax?

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I already explained that in two different ways: cutting the tax increases wages more than it reduces tax revenue. Contrary to Summer'...