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Politicians love to talk about cutting taxes in order to stimulate the economy and create jobs, but do tax cuts really trigger economic growth? Let’s look at the federal government’s tax take. The attached chart portrays the portrays how each category of taxes changed as a percentage of the Federal Government’s total tax receipts since …
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The recent publication of the 2010 QDR reveals once again, in typically leaden and mind-numbing prose, how the Pentagon is incapable of coming to grips with the mismatches among strategy, programs, and resources that its decision makers create for themselves, even when budgets are at the highest levels since the end of WWII. The F-35 …
Lovely to see a search like this. Here are the core references and then a comment and then a number of other references, but the reality is that this entire website is about creating a smart nation, and world brain, and four reforms: electoral, intelligence, governance, and national security. Afterthought: all the references from the …
White House meets corporate CEOs for ideas on modernizing government Because too many government information technology systems are rooted in the 1960s and ’70s, the White House is convening a conference today of 50 corporate chief executives with the hope of generating fresh ideas to help modernize government and improve efficiency. Chief Performance Officer Jeffrey Zients, who has spent 20 …
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Phi Beta Iota: This is a replay of a Wayne Madsen report. Over lunch we checked with our most connected consultant and learned that this is roughly half right, with some of the specifics names and methods not right, but that over-all there is general consensus on three points: Rahm is playing dirty “within and …
In the coming months, we are going to be inundated by the rhetoric surrounding an economic policy debate over the question of whether or not the Federal Government ought to begin to reduce the fiscal imbalances in its budget. The ideology of Joseph Schumpeter’s Creative Destruction will be pitted against ideology of John Maynard Keynes, …
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Chris Martinsen’s Free Crash Course on Economics # Chapter Duration Translations — Introduction (on this page, above) 1:47 Español, Français 1 Three Beliefs 1:46 Español, Français 2 The Three “E”s 1:38 Español, Français 3 Exponential Growth 6:20 Español, Français 4 Compounding is the Problem 3:06 Español, Français 5 Growth vs. Prosperity 3:40 Español, Français 6 …
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