Update 6/17/09: The board has decided on the matter. The Washington Post just came out with an article stating that the board of directors for PBS is going to vote in their next meeting (June 14-16) if they should start enforcing a 25 year old rule adopted to their By-laws in 1985. The rule is [...]
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The Congretional Buget Office came out with a new report that seems a bit staggering. In a March 2009 publication they have a revealing chart (see below) depicting the federal deficit/surplus chart. By the way, the CBO’s charter is to simply provide timely economic and budgetary analysis to congress. Congress uses this data to help [...]
My friend Oak Norton has a nice little writeup on Taxation and the Monetary Policy that I found to be a very worthwhile mental exercise. I’ll try to summarize it here for you. Scenario 1: Let’s assume that the tax rate is a flat 10%. One dollar ($1.00) is put into circulation and that one [...]