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Vox Baby: Moving to Capital Gains and Games
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Dartmouth, Of Course, Was His Nirvana. Monday, March 24, 2008. Moving to Capital Gains and Games. After several years of blogging on my own at Vox Baby, I am joining Stan Collender and Pete Davis over at the newly redesigned Capital Gains and Games. Blog Stan and Pete are two of the sharpest people writing about fiscal policy and financial matters, and so you should expect triple the fun at half the price. The new feed is http:/ www.capitalgainsandgames.com/rss.xml. See you over at Capital Gains and Games.
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Vox Baby: The Samwick Family Fund
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Dartmouth, Of Course, Was His Nirvana. Tuesday, December 04, 2007. The Samwick Family Fund. Last year at this time, I was scrambling to make charitable donations to all manner of local and national organizations. The year-end scramble comes from the desire to claim the tax deduction for 2007 instead of 2008- the year of delay would reduce the present value of the deduction. Earlier this fall, I discovered the Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund. On donor-advised funds from. Posted by Andrew Samwick. One additi...
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Vox Baby: Gridlock on Electric Highways
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Dartmouth, Of Course, Was His Nirvana. Tuesday, March 11, 2008. Gridlock on Electric Highways. The need for a capital budget, these. Were the sort of problems I wanted to avoid (this one in my own backyard):. CONCORD, N.H.—Northern New England is turning to the sun, wind and waste wood for clean, renewable power, but there's a serious problem: the threat of gridlock on electricity "highways.". The bottleneck is in Whitefield, the end of a transmission loop that runs through Berlin and Lost Nation. Last m...
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Vox Baby: Pass the Spittoon, Mortgage Meltdown Edition
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Dartmouth, Of Course, Was His Nirvana. Saturday, March 22, 2008. Pass the Spittoon, Mortgage Meltdown Edition. I confess: I get annoyed beyond measure when I read articles like this one. From Alan Zibel and J.W. Elphinstone of the Associated Press, which ran in my local paper this week. It manufactures drama where none is warranted. Here's the hook:. I'm already annoyed in three ways, and it's just two sentences in:. The word "some" in the last sentence smuggles in quite a lot. If the meaning of "som...
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Vox Baby: Governor Spitzer, We Hardly Knew You
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Dartmouth, Of Course, Was His Nirvana. Wednesday, March 12, 2008. Governor Spitzer, We Hardly Knew You. My first reaction to the news of Eliot Spitzer's demise. Was that I felt bad for his three daughters, for reasons discussed here. My second reaction was that I felt bad for his wife for having to stand there. What of the transaction itself, if it did not involve adultery or a public official? Here's another defense of legalized prostitution. Based on strengthening the legal status of women who currentl...
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Vox Baby: Samwick Media Watch
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Dartmouth, Of Course, Was His Nirvana. Monday, March 17, 2008. I'll be on NPR's Marketplace this evening, putting in my 1% of a share of Bear Stearns stock on the goings-on. In financial markets. The theme- is this fair and why should you care? Find your local station here. Posted by Andrew Samwick. Life is not fair. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. Help Cure Cystic Fibrosis. The Nonpartisan Social Security Reform Plan. Part I: 10/2004 - 05/2005. Part II: 05/2005 - present.
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Vox Baby: The Knowledge Deficit
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Dartmouth, Of Course, Was His Nirvana. Monday, March 26, 2007. I read with some dismay the article, "Failing Schools See a Solution in Longer Day,". States and school districts nationwide are moving to lengthen the day at struggling schools, spurred by grim test results suggesting that more than 10,000 schools are likely to be declared failing under federal law next year. In the very earliest grades, reading skills consist primarily of decoding words. Our schools do a decent job of that. In later...Doing...
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Vox Baby: Social Security Archive
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Dartmouth, Of Course, Was His Nirvana. Thursday, December 09, 2004. I haven't found the hack in blogger.com that allows me to make subject-based archives automatically, so I am trying a manual alternative. Listed below are all of the posts that I have made about Social Security, in reverse chronological order. I'll update this post as the thread continues, and I have put a permanent link to this post in the sidebar to the right (after the monthly arhives). A Social Security Debate. Social Security on WNYC.
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Vox Baby: Life is unfair, and so is the bailout
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Dartmouth, Of Course, Was His Nirvana. Monday, March 17, 2008. Life is unfair, and so is the bailout. On the Bear Stearns bailout aired on NPR's Marketplace this evening. Here's the teaser:. The collapse of Bear Stearns prompted the Fed to once again cut interest rates. Commentator and economist Andrew Samwick says whether you call it a bailout or a rescue, all Americans have a stake in the outcome. And here's an excerpt:. Two questions immediately come to mind: Is this fair, and should we care? I don't ...
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Vox Baby: Are We in a Recession?
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Dartmouth, Of Course, Was His Nirvana. Friday, March 14, 2008. Are We in a Recession? The honest answer is that we cannot provide an answer in real time. The rule of thumb is that a recession is two or more consecutive quarters of negative growth in real GDP. The latest estimate. 4th quarter GDP growth from 2007 will be revised below zero when the next estimate is released on March 27. 2nd quarter GDP growth from 2008 will be negative. Then NBER has a broader defintion. A recession is a significant decli...
