Everything You Need to Know About the Crazy Plan to Save the Economy With a Trillion-Dollar Coin
The only thing we have to fear is fear of the trillion-dollar coin itself More »
Matthew O'Brien is an associate editor at The Atlantic covering business and economics. He has previously written for The New Republic.
The only thing we have to fear is fear of the trillion-dollar coin itself More »
Expectations. It's all about expectations. More »
Latvia's economy is doing worse than Iceland's, compared to their pre-recession levels. And Iceland basically went through national bankruptcy! More »
Households making between $200,000 and $500,000 saved the most compared to a world where we went off the cliff forever More »
The payroll tax cut is set to expire, and with it, about a half million jobs in the coming year More »
It will cost us $375 billion over the next decade if we keep the estate tax from going back to its Clinton-era levels More »
Beware the looming payroll tax hike! More »
The Fed says it will tolerate more inflation, but won't create it. Congress should. More »
Under the Senate's bill, If the expiring payroll tax doesn't get you, the expiring Bush tax cuts will. More »
Not that much, but that doesn't mean it makes sense. More »
Eat your heart out, Ross Perot. Here are all the economic charts that mattered in 2012. More »
The rumored grand bargain would cost the economy about half a million jobs in 2013 More »
Ben Bernanke shouldn't forget about Poland when it comes to monetary policy More »
Chicago Fed president Charles Evans has gone from dissenter to intellectual leader in just a year. The future of the recovery might be at stake More »
Unemployment looks normal for everyone except those out of work for six months or longer. If we don't act soon, the long-term unemployed will become unemployable More »
A single mandate for nominal GDP, instead of inflation, could help the Fed save the economy More »
Some rich people accuse Obama of class warfare while they praise the bipartisan deficit commission. Do they realize that the latter raises taxes more on the top 0.1%?(Reuters)Pop quiz, hotshot. Which fiscal cliff plan raises taxes on the rich more, President Obama's or Bowles-Simpson? The answer is ... both. Obama's plan increases taxes more on the top 1 percent, but Bowles-Simpson increases taxes more on the top 0.1 percent. The chart below breaks down the top-end… More »
Here's how the Bowles-Simpson, Obama, and Republican fiscal cliff plans match up More »
Cyrpus' bank bailout is making history, but it hasn't caught one disaster from the 1990s More »
