The sharp deceleration has come to an end, of that there can be little doubt. Nor should there be much surprise. The collapse in commodity prices, lower interest rates to allow mortgage refinancing for those homeowners still above water, and tax cuts all joined to provide powerful support for...
Total assets on the Fed’sweekly balance sheetas of August 31, released on September 1, dropped by $25 billion from the prior week, by $48 billion from the balance sheet of August 3, and by $139 billion from the peak on April 13, to $8.83 trillion, the lowest since January 12. QE...
On the debt side: Let’s have a tax holiday for those under $250,000, from fed, SS and MC. Of course, the holiday would only be good for those who use the resulting tax savings to first pay down existing unsecured debt, then secured other than your home and then mortgage payments. ...
About 20-30 years ago, Massachusetts citizens also claimed to want to pay higher state income taxes. Massachusetts actually published “voluntary higher tax rate ” tax forms…turn out, VERY VERY VERY FEW actually paid the higher tax. Turns ...
You are spot on Greg. It’s immoral for politicians to grant public union sky high salaries, pensions, and benefits and then burden the tax payers to pay for it all. Rewarding corrupt politicians of Illinois with a bailout would be immoral too–like giving a drug abuser money to spend on...
But trouble for the BBC has been brewing on another front. The BBC uses license fee collection methods which in my opinion are nothing short of brutal. They enforce their special privilege to collect mandatory license fees even if you don’t watch the BBC. The BBC exercise their “...
“There’s no tax on anyone from QE3, except criminals who hoard cash.” And how is that not a lie, Scott? If you think that QE3 is not inflationary, then criminals who hoard cash (I assume you really mean currency) won’t get taxed. If you think that QE3 is inflationary, the...
KO as a food supplementation has become popular with some pilot trials indicating healthy benefits [11]. Beuy et al., had reviewed the biological function of the KO, and pointed out that KO seems to be good marine food sup- plementation but there is still no concrete conclusive on ...
Labour’s policy is just to be all thing to all voters on the Brexit issue with ministers contradicting each other daily. Their only other policies are to incubate envy everywhere, waste tax payers money, steal private property, regulate to death and destroy the economy. May clearly seem to ...
The joke on the workers is (aside from being made obsolete) that they are the ones PAYING for all this stimulus as it generally ends up being Governement debt, which forces the Government to raise taxes (and I bet your lobbyist hasn't done a good job making sure tax increases don't af...