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Sorry, Heritage, your number is still wrong 24 May 2013 | 12:15 pm
When you estimate the costs of the wrong population, compare it to a fanciful/impossible baseline, and ignore the time value of money, your headline number adds no useful information to the immigratio...
Boasting about a 4.2% deficit? 20 May 2013 | 07:12 am
You’re supposed to boast when things are getting better, not when they’re getting worse more slowly.
A mistake in my deficit post 19 May 2013 | 05:56 am
I made a mistake in my Thursday post about CBO’s new deficit projection and correct it here,
CBO’s new deficit estimate 16 May 2013 | 01:16 am
If like me, you hate tax rate increases on anyone and detest having the government own two massive mortgage finance companies, then you should feel no comfort from today’s deficit news, which is almos...
Eight problems with the Heritage immigration cost estimate 10 May 2013 | 03:53 am
There are so many problems with the Heritage study that this $6.3 trillion number is useless for making policy decisions. It might as well be plucked out of thin air.
Opposing the President’s FHFA nomination 2 May 2013 | 02:10 am
By nominating Mr. Watt the President signals a return to the pre-crisis philosophy of regulating housing finance risk. That is a huge mistake. Mr. Watt should not be confirmed to head the FHFA.
George W. Bush is smarter than you 24 Apr 2013 | 09:46 pm
The new George W. Bush Presidential Center is being dedicated this week. This seems like a good time to bust a longstanding myth about our former President, my former boss.
How filibusters work and why they are so rare 8 Mar 2013 | 01:27 am
Last night Senator Rand Paul from Kentucky led a 13-hour filibuster of the nomination of John Brennan to head the CIA.
What if the sequester was a true across-the-board spending cut? 7 Mar 2013 | 12:38 am
While the sequester is advertised as an across-the-board spending cut, it’s not.
A flawed attempt to assign blame 6 Mar 2013 | 01:42 am
The President’s initial attempt to blame Republicans in Congress for current and future economic weakness is flawed because House Republicans passed a bill that would have the same macroeconomic effec...
