Publications

President Obama has appointed Princeton University economics professor Alan Krueger to replace the departing Austan Goolsbee as head of the White House Council of Economic Advisors.

The ongoing budget debate, deciding how the country manages government spending, is a defining series of moments for the country.

For more than 45 years the states have fought in the courts or on Capitol Hill for the power to force merchants to collect tax for them when the merchant sells something out of state.

Social Security and Medicare are going broke, primarily because of the way the system is structured.

Philadelphia taxpayers left stranded, again, with a failed municipal wi-fi network might wish Philly was in the Tar Heel State.

The debate over the debt ceiling extension dominates the news cycle and political discussions.

Lately many technology stories, from search engines to telecommunications, include a discussion of a company’s ability to “control” some marketplace—in other words, lots of talk about “monopolies.

Backed into a corner by Republican demands for severe spending restraints as a condition for an extension of the debt ceiling, President Obama has attached a few conditions of his own, among which are eliminating some corporate tax breaks for corporate jets, tax breaks for oil companies, and the like.

The FCC just released its wireless report, and for the second year in a row this FCC has declined to come to a conclusion as to whether the wireless industry is “competitive.

One of the many problems with our tax system in the United States is that we are schizophrenic on the question of whether or not taxes affect decision-making.