Phillip Swagel comes out for this proposed change in the tax code: The current corporate tax system, in contrast, typically means a lower ...

Greg Mankiw congratulates Kevin Hassett for being named the head of the Council of Economic Advisers. He reminds of his review of DOW 3600...

Read this. As everyone who’s followed the research—or even occasionally picked up a copy of Psychology Today —knows, any graduate student ...

Dean Baker's screed,  Bill Gates Is Clueless On The Economy , keeps getting recycled, from Beat the Press to  Truthout to Real-World E...

In a comment on  Nineteen Ninety-Six: The Robot/Productivity Paradox , Jeff points out a much simpler rebuttal to Dean Baker's and Jared...

The Tax Justice Blog features a critique of the Destination Based Cash Flow Tax (DBCFT) by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (...

anne at Economist's View has retrieved a FRED graph that perfectly illustrates the divergence, since the mid-1990s of net worth from GD...

Twenty-three and a half trillion, actually. But what's a few hundred billion? Here today, gone tomorrow, as they say. At the beginning...

I’m in the market for a new pair of running shoes and am considering the latest from both Adidas and Nike. I will use my next shopping trip ...

For nearly a half a century, from 1947 to 1996, real GDP and real Net Worth of Households and Non-profit Organizations (in 2009 dollars) bo...

Reuters reports: U.S. President Donald Trump's administration is mulling changes to how it calculates U.S. trade deficits in a way tha...

While the House Republicans are pushing that Destination Based Cash Flow Tax, President Trump has other ideas as do the Senate Republicans. ...

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In an earlier post , Peter Doman, "would sincerely appreciate intelligent arguments from the degrowth side" in response to the que...

Bill Gates wonders if we should  tax robots who take jobs from people: "Right now, the human worker who does, say, $50,000 worth of ...