Have you checked your wireless bill lately? You’ll see a hefty set of extra taxes on mobile service—taxes that are not imposed on any other…
There’s a good rule of thumb–you get what you reward. Here’s a summary of current U.S. policy towards big corporations: Invest in the U.S., create…
With the stock market plunging, we’ve heard plenty of warnings that a “pullback” in consumer spending could trigger another recession. Let me suggest an alternative….
Where can Americans cut back if the economy slips back into recession again? After all the talk about the “new frugality” and the deepest recession…
U.S. elected leaders are desperately searching for ways to reduce the nation’s colossal debt without casting career-damaging votes for hiking revenues and slashing spending. Policy-makers…
In 1987 the G6 countries (Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, and the UK) accounted for 55 percent of U.S. goods imports. That same year, China,…
Imagine that you had an industry where customer satisfaction was increasing faster than any other part of the economy. Now imagine that the same industry…
Many of the facts relating to the globalization of intellectual property (IP) theft over the last decade are not debatable. For example, IP theft has…
PPI just released a new policy memo by Jeff Siegel: “Let the Wine Flow: Why Congress Shouldn’t Restrict Free Markets in Beer, Wine, and Spirits.” …
Mike Konczal’s inequality post as a guest blogger for Ezra is getting a bit of attention in the blogosphere. Konczal jumps off of an interesting…