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		<title>Bipartisan Tax Reform &#8211; Tyler&#8217;s AM Reads &#8211; February 24, 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2012 13:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[David Brooks writes about the fact that both President Obama and Governor Romney are presenting tax plans that put the country on a better track regarding taxation. The Economist&#8216;s Lexington column looks at the state of the GOP race. Politico has an interesting story on an intra-GOP culture war in Arizona&#8230; and another cultural issue [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ablogofrivals.wordpress.com&amp;blog=16922880&amp;post=1505&amp;subd=ablogofrivals&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Message for Paul Ryan</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 17:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Democracy in America blog at The Economist, responding to Paul Ryan claiming America&#8217;s debt trajectory is European-like: The European Union has lower government debt levels than America. Gross government debt in the 27 nations of the EU was 80% of the region&#8217;s GDP at the end of 2010; in America gross federal debt [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ablogofrivals.wordpress.com&amp;blog=16922880&amp;post=1503&amp;subd=ablogofrivals&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Another read for the day</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 14:05:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tyler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Politico has a great article about the GOP candidates&#8217; tone and message possibly narrowing the party&#8217;s future base. The article begins: In 2008, after Republicans were routed in the presidential and congressional elections, there was widespread consensus within elite GOP circles about the party’s structural problems: The Republican voter base was too old, too white, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ablogofrivals.wordpress.com&amp;blog=16922880&amp;post=1495&amp;subd=ablogofrivals&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>GOP Candidate Budget Plans Increase Debt &#8211; Tyler&#8217;s AM Reads &#8211; February 23, 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 13:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the exception of Ron Paul, the Washington Post reports that the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget will release a report today showing huge debt increases under the proposals of the other three GOP candidates. In the Financial Times, Robert Pozen proposes a solution to repatriating corporate profits for taxation. The Free Exchange blog at The Economist [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ablogofrivals.wordpress.com&amp;blog=16922880&amp;post=1483&amp;subd=ablogofrivals&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Disability as a Permanent State?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 15:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tyler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are a lot of missing pieces in this post and I don&#8217;t have the time to track them all down at the moment, but Alex Tabarrok makes some interesting observations about the changes in the number of disability applications pre- and post-recession &#8211; the graph below comes from the post. Of course good data [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ablogofrivals.wordpress.com&amp;blog=16922880&amp;post=1481&amp;subd=ablogofrivals&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>President Obama Plans to Lower Corporate Taxes &#8211; Tyler&#8217;s AM Reads &#8211; February 22, 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 13:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Obama released a plan today aimed at lowering corporate tax rates and eliminating loopholes. Scott Sumner takes a hard look at the multiplier effect. Howard Davies wonders if financial markets could use a little less grease and a little more sand in the wheels. Peter Orszag looks at recessions and life expectancy. Gordon Brown [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ablogofrivals.wordpress.com&amp;blog=16922880&amp;post=1476&amp;subd=ablogofrivals&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Karl Smith wished we&#8217;d have had a revenue-side stimulus</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 21:30:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In response to a recent Krugman column on austerity, Karl Smith asserts that he would have liked, &#8220;complete suspension of the payroll tax, 100% depreciation in year 1 and open ended loans to state governments,&#8221; at the recession&#8217;s outset and in hindsight would add, &#8220;50K off of AGI for singles and 100K for couples.&#8221; This [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ablogofrivals.wordpress.com&amp;blog=16922880&amp;post=1474&amp;subd=ablogofrivals&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tyler&#8217;s AM Reads &#8211; February 21, 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 13:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Economist reports the details of what is hopefully the solution for Greece. Russ Roberts at Cafe Hayek argues against the idea of a &#8220;Great Stagnation.&#8221; The Economist&#8216;s daughter publication, Intelligent Life, has a very interesting article on neuroscience and free will. David Brooks reviews and reacts to Going Solo by Eric Klinenberg. Physicists are now one [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ablogofrivals.wordpress.com&amp;blog=16922880&amp;post=1464&amp;subd=ablogofrivals&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>No AM Reads today. For Presidents&#8217; Day I&#8217;ll be watching &#8220;The West Wing&#8221; today.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 13:47:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Housing appears to be recovering</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 18:31:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to Karl Smith at Modeled Behavior, claims that housing is not really recovering are unfounded. Responding to one such claimant, he says: I am not sure which economists expected a bigger advance, the consensus numbers I saw were in the 670 range versus 699 reported. More importantly she seems to suggest that the increase [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ablogofrivals.wordpress.com&amp;blog=16922880&amp;post=1449&amp;subd=ablogofrivals&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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