In business circles they know that what gets measured gets done. It’s the numbers that accountants provide and managers use to set company policies that determine what these policies are, what gets priorities, what doesn’t. The same is true, of Continue reading
I thought I had a good idea. An obvious idea. An idea with a lot of natural and timely appeal. It involved too-big-to-fail banks. A couple of months back the Senate, in a highly unusual bipartisan move, unanimously passed a Continue reading
Republicans have a plan to reform business taxes. They want flatter business taxes that lower the tax rate on highest taxpayers; that don’t reduce the revenue generated because it spreads the tax net to reach formerly untaxed or under-taxed businesses, Continue reading
Senator Bernie Sanders, a progressive senator from Vermont, is introducing a bill this week that would break up the Too-Big-To-Fail banks. It would require Treasury Secretary Lew to compile a list of these institutions in 90 days, and after that Continue reading
Are you confused about the differences between this country’s two major parties? Perhaps this simple guide will help. Republicans have a set of firmly held beliefs. Democrats have things they kind of like if no one objects too much. Republicans Continue reading
South Dakota has just enacted a law that lets teachers carry guns in their classrooms. Not a bad idea. Sure, the chances of a crazed gunman coming to a school in the state and doing the horrible things done recently Continue reading
You listen to debates these days about why we should or shouldn’t raise the federal minimum wage and you might get the idea that this argument is about the economic benefits or drawbacks of doing so. That’s not actually the Continue reading
It’s not surprising that the President’s State of the Union Address last night, which supposedly focused on helping the middle class, didn’t have anything worth hearing in this regard. The president, as well as his advisers, top administrators, and members Continue reading
In yesterday’s New York Times, columnist Paul Krugman looked over the Obama presidency to date and found it praiseworthy. And to those progressives who might be profoundly disappointed in this President (and his party) Krugman opined: “…maybe progressives — an Continue reading
Economically speaking, Washington pols have nothing in common with middle class Americans. NOTHING. They are all, every one, in a different economic class. Here’s the numbers: The President has a salary of $400,000 a year and every member of his Continue reading