In a comment to a Mark Thoma post regarding U.S. farm subsidies, Brad Setser gently reminds me not to fall for the Cato and Heritage spin on the Federal Agricultural…

…every lewd or offensive music or fashion statement that otherwise contained strong language was labeled and shunned puritanically. The result was that more albums were sold that were labeled highly…

…ones while also creating deep subsidies for many forms of domestic manufacturing, particularly computer chips and green technology. Responding to these incentives as well as to the supply chain fragilities…

…ridiculous. But it does have the advantage of carrying with it the Madisonian Freedom/Liberty tag, a label that the Koch right confers upon anything it wishes, because that surely will…

…political debates, is a disagreement about how far to turn the knobs when adjusting policy; it does not seem to call for a separate ideological label. That said, Mr. Konczal…

…of subsidies represented by the “active business exception” that allows tax free reorganizations to move business assets and jobs out of the country without any tax “toll” on the departure….

…services made affordable by corporate and personal greed, and personal immiseration. People who can’t afford to buy something with a union label attached outnumber people who can, and vastly outnumber…

Another Shrill Economist Shrill is, of course, the word conservatives often use to label an economist when said economist makes a case that they cannot refute with logic or data….

…supplemental benefits. Low-income beneficiaries remain underinsured and subject to significant copayments and deductibles. As plans code more, risk scores go up, CMS provides more subsidies, benefits and premiums get better,…

…bother to read the label. It’s not a chart of total foreign aid, just humanitarian aid — which is about one-sixth of one percent of federal spending. Overall, by the way, America…