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Temporary Employment: A New Ugly Rearing its Head in Europe?

{ Posted on Feb 07 2012 by Dan Crawford (Rdan) }
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Categories : All, Angry Bear, Rebecca Wilder, temporary employment
by Rebecca Wilder Temporary Employment: A New Ugly Rearing its Head in Europe? Last week Clive Crook opined on some fallacies of labor reform, specifically related to the unions and through the Spanish experience. Labor reform is a highly contentious subject, given ...Read More »

The 2012 Version of a Very Old Joke

{ Posted on Feb 06 2012 by Ken Houghton }
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Categories : All, Angry Bear, Economics, humor, Macroeconomic Theory, RBC theory
With apologies to Stan Collender’s Beautiful and Talented Wife (not to mention mine):James had gathered a mix of friends, acquaintances, and random strangers at his Rent Party, but no one was talking to anyone else. So he decided to get ...Read More »

David Frum Savages Charles Murray — And Rightly So

{ Posted on Feb 06 2012 by Steve Roth }
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Categories : All, Angry Bear, Steve Roth
David Frum was excommunicated from the Righties Club a few years back because he insisted on occasionally saying sane and accurate things. He continues that aberrational behavior today in his review of AEI uber-zealot Charles Murray’s new book, Coming Apart: The ...Read More »

Which Economy Is Pursuing Procyclical Fiscal Policy?

{ Posted on Feb 06 2012 by Dan Crawford (Rdan) }
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Categories : All, Angry Bear, procyclical policies, Rebecca Wilder, unemployment
by  Rebecca Wilder Which Economy Is Pursuing Procyclical Fiscal Policy? Today the BLS reported that the US unemployment rate dropped to 8.3% in January 2012. This is the lowest measured rate since February 2009 – a local trough. Also this week, ...Read More »

Small businesses and drive the economy?

{ Posted on Feb 06 2012 by Dan Crawford (Rdan) }
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Categories : All, Angry Bear, multi-national business, Small Business, Taxprof blog
Taxprofblog points to research suggesting a tipping point about the notion that small businesses drive the economy: Martin A. Sullivan (Tax Analysts), New Research Weakens Case for Small Business Tax Relief The National Federation of Independent Business states on its website: "Small ...Read More »

Why we don’t need corporate tax "overhaul":

{ Posted on Feb 06 2012 by Dan Crawford (Rdan) }
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Categories : All, Angry Bear, corporate taxation, Linda Beale (Tax law)
by Linda Beale Why we don't need corporate tax "overhaul" GOP poormouthing on behalf of rich corporate allies(Part I in a series) These days, one hears a great deal from politicians on the right about how a corporate tax "overhaul" is needed because ...Read More »

‘Bank Transfer Day’, What Really Just Happened?

{ Posted on Feb 06 2012 by Dan Crawford (Rdan) }
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Categories : All, Angry Bear, bank transfer day, Moving money
‘Bank Transfer Day’, What Really Just Happened? James Van Dyke points to some numbers on the move to transfer funds out of big banks: Bank Transfer Day and the Occupy Movement have received tremendous attention, and for the first time we have ...Read More »

Making it harder to sue for medical malpractice…

{ Posted on Feb 05 2012 by Dan Crawford (Rdan) }
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Categories : All, Angry Bear, courts, medical malpractice
 Making it Harder for Military Families to Sue for Medical Malpractice In defending the U.S. military’s medical system in court, the U.S. Department of Justice is arguing that service personnel and their families are not allowed to sue for medical malpractice ...Read More »

David Beckworth Scott Sumner talks very good sense sometimes

{ Posted on Feb 04 2012 by Steve Roth }
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Don’t tell me that the Dems favor fiscal stimulus because they like big government. The payroll tax cut will make it a bit more difficult to expand the size of government in future years. (As Clinton found in 1993, ...Read More »

David Beckworth Scott Sumner talks very good sense sometimes

{ Posted on Feb 04 2012 by Steve Roth }
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Don’t tell me that the Dems favor fiscal stimulus because they like big government. The payroll tax cut will make it a bit more difficult to expand the size of government in future years. (As Clinton found in 1993, ...Read More »
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