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conversableeconomist.com
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| | | | | A wealth tax is what it sounds like: a tax imposed not on income, but on wealth. The standard economic definition of wealth includes both nonfinancial assets like real estate and financial assets like stocks and bonds. Thus, a wealth tax doesn\'t care if the value of someone\'s wealth went up or down in the | |
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blairbellecurve.com
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| | | | | The size of the U.S. national debt is getting a lot of attention lately, and for good reason. Deficit spending through the COVID pandemic was enormous, pushing the total outstanding debt to a staggering $31 Trillion, with a T. A better way to measure the size of the debt is as a percentage of our... | |
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digbysblog.net
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| | | | | [AI summary] The article discusses the U.S. economy's strong post-pandemic recovery, highlighting its outperformance compared to other major economies and the effectiveness of fiscal policy over monetary policy in economic management. | |
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| | | The world is more complex than people like it to be. I regularly see blog posts of software experts providing us with values, principles, guidelines and practices to live our lives by. And all of them are good, and all of them are incomplete. I've seen improvements on the agile manifesto (Glen Alleman), additions to the agile manifesto (Jason Yip), conflicts over principles (Bob Martin vs. Joel Spolsky), controversy over practices (Ron Jeffries vs. me), and lots of other heated debates. Each discussion is valuable, and each is only half the story. We're all seeking simple truths where there aren't any. I believe it is time for a new manifesto. A manifesto of complexity. With this manifesto we must recognize that it is human to prefer simple solutions, but al... | ||
