Congress
A Fiscal Deal Is Emerging—But Is It Any Good?
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The Pointless Pursuit of “Tax Certainty”
How Can the Supreme Court Help Gay Rights? By Keeping Out Entirely
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Can Gay Marriage Supporters Count on Kennedy?
Sandy Recovery: The Case for Disaster Bonds
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The Birth of American Finance
The Founders and Finance: How Hamilton, Gallatin, and Other Immigrants Forged a New Economy By Thomas K. McCraw (Harvard University Press, 485 pp., $35) READ MORE >>
Dear Courts, Please Ignore Mitch McConnell's Latest Lawsuit
Commerce Claus
SOME ECONOMISTS dislike Christmas. They allege that it “destroys value,” which is, in Econoland, the first and only sin. The economist Joel Waldfogel, author of Scroogenomics, goes so far as to contend that the winter holiday season is “an orgy of value destruction.” READ MORE >>
Cut the Mortgage Tax Break, Invest in R&D
As tax hikes and spending cuts loom, we at the Metro Program will continue to harp on the need also to renew the economy. Put simply, U.S. economic strength and fiscal health requires that Congress cut and invest to catalyze economic renewal even as it moves the nation toward fiscal stability. READ MORE >>
The Legal Crusade to Undermine Obamacare—and Rewrite History
Can one very determined libertarian and one very distorted version of history keep millions of people from getting health insurance? We’re about to find out. READ MORE >>
