Monthly Archives: September 2010
What’s missing from the debate over the tax cuts
Today the Congressional Budget Office released The Economic Outlook and Fiscal Policy Choices [PDF], a remarkable document whose dry title belies the juiciness of the analysis contained within. For example, the CBO estimates the economic effects of either permanently or … Continue reading
Filed under Economics
Gentrification for thee…
I don’t live within the DC limits, so I really didn’t have a dog in the Fenty-Gray matchup. The totality of my interest in Fenty’s administration was via the arc of Michelle Rhee’s tenure as the head of DCPS. But … Continue reading
Filed under Politics
Pew’s take on Peter Orszag
Former OMB director Peter Orszag has an op-ed in today’s Times pushing a 2-year extension of the 2001/2003 tax cuts as a compromise. Auspiciously, Pew just updated its cost estimates of different policies surrounding these cuts. The 2-year full extension … Continue reading
Filed under Economics
Will Wilkinson on a National Infrastructure Bank
Steven Pearlstein writes the following in the Washington Post about Obama’s proposed National Infrastructure Bank (NIB): With an independent board, a professional staff and its own sources of operating funds, the Infrastructure Bank could be insulated, as much as possible, … Continue reading
Filed under Economics
$50 billion of infrastructure investment in context
President Obama is proposing a “down-payment” of $50 billion on a six-year transportation infrastructure construction plan. Just how big is $50 billion in the context of government infrastructure spending? To put this figure in perspective, the federal government spent a … Continue reading
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