It’s easy to muster a cynical response to Tuesday’s announcement that the world’s largest health products company, J&J, is replacing their current CEO William Weldon (athletic white male and former sales rep who rose through the commercial organization) with Alex Gorsky (athletic ...

It's tempting to call the shameful taxpayer subsidy for electric cars - vehicles that are unaffordable for all but a small number of wealthy Americans - this nation's costly little secret.

The exemption of groceries serves the essential purpose of easing the fiscal burden on those with limited economic means. Economic analysis suggests, however, that this policy is not a desirable way to advance that purpose.

The typical sales tax applies primarily to sales of goods and exempts many types of consumer services. The disparate treatment of goods and services has been uniformly condemned by tax policy scholars because it creates economic inefficiency and complexity.

Widespread state sales taxation of business purchases results in significant economic inefficiency, so reduction in the taxation of business purchases should be a high priority in efforts to improve state and local tax systems.

President Barack Obama went back before the cameras again Wednesday, providing yet another recycling of fading rationales for his health reform product that more voters would rather leave on the Capitol Hill store shelves than purchase.

The following presentation lays out steps that can be taken in order to help property appraising return to its status as a profession and to its core function: assisting lenders in determining the maximum amount that may be prudently lent on a property.  

If ever we need evidence of ideology run rampant, the House vote to eliminate the annual American Community Survey and the Economic Census to provide basic information on the state of businesses and industries in the country and data used for generating quarterly gross domestic product estimates is exhibit A.