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[quote]This anti-austerity crusader has recommended a tax amnesty which would be coupled with serious penalties for people who don't comply. (How do you spell "life in prison.")[/quote] I disagree with...
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Don't stop with a vacant property tax. Shift all taxes off of labor and capital and onto land. It's especially important for countries that don't control their own currencies. They do control the land...
View ArticleWhy Isn't Pearlstein on the Home Shopping Channel?
When a con artist like Pearlstein is selling all-in-one austerity snake oil that cures everything, it's like selling suntan oil for skin cancer that also prevents heart attacks, stroke, diabetes, high...
View Articleby the way: some perspective
This clown Pearlstein is from George Mason U (if you don't understand the implications of this, just know that it's one of the few universities that still pushes debunked austrian economic theories)....
View ArticlePearlstein: I am Right and Keynes Is Wrong
"[T]he theory that they can grow their way out of the hole they’ve dug. They can’t." The U.S. economy has grown out of its deep hole with Keynesian consumption demand: Cash for Clunkers jump started...
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It would probably help the peripheral countries if Germany increased its wages and unit labor cost, but Germany is unlikely to do this, having worked hard over the last two decades to bring labor cost...
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[quote]I have also suggested a vacant property tax...[/quote] I agree with what [b]LSTB[/b] wrote: why not just tax land value, period? It does what you want a vacant property tax to do, since someone...
View ArticleIf this is the best they can do . . .
You really get the impression these people are hunkered down in their bunkers, they have so little left. As often pointed out, Greece is a definite outlier in terms of size and structure-it's the...
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[b]Chris Engel[/b] wrote, [quote]This clown Pearlstein is from George Mason U...[/quote] I'm not sure how much that means. Do you mean he's adjunct faculty there? He's actually not that unreasonable...
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No Chris. Why would a Pulitzer winner take such a come down? GMU is a kind of place to come in out of the rain for many pundits just prior to retirement. They get lots of money and little to do. - Bart
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I didn't actually manage to finish Pearlstein's column (so shouldn't comment) and find myself in the unusual position of thinking you have been too gentle. Pearlstein notes that there are other issues...
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There is problem with your address if you select b--t-p from your header sequence: Home> Publications > Blogs > Beat the Press - you get a blank page; I checked my IE favorites &...
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