Showing posts with label Caroline Baum. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Caroline Baum. Show all posts
Thursday, October 5, 2017

Asinine is right: Marketwatch story blames James Madison for bloated tax code

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There wasn't an income tax until 1913, for crying out loud, and never was intended to be. James Madison, of all people, believed i...
Wednesday, October 21, 2015

Caroline Baum should be Treasury Secretary: She knows there's no reason even to think defaulting on the debt is possible

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. . . unlike the rogues running the place currently, who are playing chicken with the full faith and credit of the US government. Once...
Friday, July 29, 2011

Obama Regime's Default Alarmism is Straight out of Saul Alinsky

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Caroline Baum notices that the Obama regime is acting strangely: Instead of dangling the default threat every chance they get, Obama and Ge...
Thursday, February 24, 2011

Unlike Some People Caroline Baum Still Believes in American Exceptionalism

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And she notices its Anglo-Saxon character, too, here : What about other indicators that challenge the notion the US is going the way of empi...
Monday, December 6, 2010

Caroline Baum Says "There Isn't Anything Government Can Do" For Housing

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It's right here : Owners’ equity in household real estate, or the value of assets minus liabilities, fell from a peak of $13.1 trillion ...
Thursday, September 30, 2010

Individual Charitable Giving Declines Nearly 5% Between 2008 and 2009

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Caroline Baum reports some interesting figures  for Bloomberg.com about the relatively puny contributions people have made to the US Bureau ...
Wednesday, February 3, 2010

The Pyramids of John Maynard Keynes

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Caroline Baum notices that President Obama's fiscal 2011 budget contains money for everything, it seems, except pyramid building: No lo...