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Hank Paulson's Fannie Gamble
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| By Lawrence B. Lindsey |
| Posted: Friday, August 1, 2008 |
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The world would dump the currency of any other country that announced an open-ended bank bailout.
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Proposed Rules for Nationally Recognized Statistical Rating Organizations
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| By Alex J. Pollock |
| Posted: Friday, August 1, 2008 |
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The SEC should revoke its requirement that Nationally Recognized Statistical Rating Organizations must make the records of their rating actions public.
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Windfall Tax Doesn't Work
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| By Nick Schulz |
| Posted: Friday, August 1, 2008 |
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Whatever the motivation for a windfall profits tax, the historical and economic record reminds us that such taxes will cause long-term harm that overwhelms short-term good.
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As Arizona Goes, So Goes the Nation
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| How Medicaid Ruins the States' Fiscal Health |
| By Michael S. Greve, Philip Wallach |
| Posted: Thursday, July 17, 2008 |
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Medicaid's perverse incentives have led the states into a fiscal danger zone. In some states, the crisis has already arrived: Arizona provides a stark illustration of Medicaid's ruinous effects.
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The Social Security Earnings Test
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| The Tax That Wasn't |
| By Andrew G. Biggs |
| Posted: Thursday, July 17, 2008 |
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Retirees need better information about the Social Security earnings test, and policymakers should consider whether the earnings test makes sense at all.
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Viard Replies to Johnston
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| Letter to the Editor |
| By Alan D. Viard |
| Posted: Thursday, July 17, 2008 |
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Alan D. Viard explains that the federal tax system is highly progressive.
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The Taxation of Carried Interests in Private Equity
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| By David Weisbach |
| Posted: Wednesday, July 9, 2008 |
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Attempts to tax carried interests as service income will have to be able to distinguish service income from other types of income, a task that has proven to be difficult and complex.
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Have Health Reformers Forgotten Medicare?
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| By Joseph Antos |
| Posted: Monday, July 7, 2008 |
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Tackling Medicare is essential to meaningful health care reform, but Congress seems willfully blind to urgency of fixing Medicare.
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Policies to Improve the Resiliency of Long-Term Social Security Financing
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| By Andrew G. Biggs |
| Posted: Thursday, July 3, 2008 |
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This paper examines policies to index Social Security taxes or benefits to changes in the ratio of workers to beneficiaries, allowing for auto-correction for changing demographic factors.
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Data Contradict Johnston's Statement about Redistribution
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| Letter to the Editor |
| By Alan D. Viard |
| Posted: Wednesday, July 2, 2008 |
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The federal tax system is highly progressive, with the highest-income 1 percent of the population paying one-quarter of all federal taxes.
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