Tag: Bill Clinton

Tax Rates and the Fiscal Cliff (a/k/a the ALLEL-GBTD-HSS-2001)

We now return to our normally scheduled program . . . *  *  * The election of 2012 is over and at least day-and-a-half-after debriefed. My how things have changed. Looking back we see how:      Twelve years ago we, as a nation, made decisions which, when aggregated, were […]

Some Words About the Election, and About U.S. Economic Performance Under the Two Parties

Every single component of a person’s life has a financial component to it. Now, I’m not saying that this is a good thing or a bad thing, but I *am* saying that, in the world in which we live, this is a true statement (see the video of me talking about this further). For […]

The Is Have It

Or should I say the “I”s have it? The phrase Impact Investing is of relatively recent origin. Yesterday I attended an afternoon program about the Is (the eyes?) and learned all about how the older idea of SRI (socially responsible investing) has given way to II (not to be confused […]

Tax code invisibility / tax code simplification / tax code fairness

We all agree that the tax code is too complex and should be simplified. But some complexity is warranted in the name of fairness.