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Sweden and the Supreme Court's PPL decision (not meant to imply, however, that these two are in any way linked)

posted to Start Making Sense on Tue 21st May 13

I am now nearing the end of my second day in Stockholm, and I appear to have conquered the jet lag (subject to sleeping tonight) by dint of staying up on the first day. I've tramped around town a lot, busted knee or not, and have seen various museums,
Upcoming trip

posted to Start Making Sense on Mon 13th May 13

Torn ACL or not, the show must go on. (And anyway I have been cleared to walk and travel.)So on Sunday night I will be flying to Stockholm, Sweden, in order to spend a week there, during which I will guest-lecture at two Stockholm University Law
Advance birthday present!

posted to Start Making Sense on Fri 10th May 13

Tomorrow is my birthday - I won't say what number, though it is a matter of public record. But today I got a delightful birthday present, a day in advance. And yes, my saying so is just snark.Ten days ago I experienced an unpleasant knee

Kim Clausing on signaling, tax return disclosure, and toads

posted to Start Making Sense on Mon 24th Sep 12

Kim Clausing of Reed College, with whom I recently co-authored an article on international taxation, has a short. op-ed style piece on what we should make of Romney's tax return non-disclosure, drawing on an analogy to the behavior of
Why won't Romney release his 2009 tax return?

posted to Start Making Sense on Mon 16th Jul 12

Increasingly, everyone (including Republicans such as George Will, Matthew Dowd, and William Kristol) agrees that the reason for Romney's reluctance to release any pre-2010 tax return might be that what it would show is worse than all the heat he is taking
There is no joy in Mudville - Casey Mulligan has struck out

posted to Start Making Sense on Wed 15th Jun 11

Thanks again to a link in the Tax Prof Blog, I see that Casey Mulligan of the University of Chicago Econ Department is saying that the home mortgage interest deduction is no big deal, hence no particular reason to repeal it. He focuses mainly on the point that

'Kim Clausing on Signaling, Tax Return Disclosure, and Toads'

posted to Economist's View on Tue 25th Sep 12

From the perspective of the economics of signaling, Mitt Romney is behaving like "an awfully small toad": Romneys Tax Returns and The Economics of Signaling : Why Small Toads Still Croak, by Kimberly Clausing, Reed College: When toads compete for
What Is in Mitt Romney's Tax Returns?

posted to Grasping Reality with Both Hands: Economist Brad DeLong's Fair, Balanced, and Reality-Based Semi-Daily Journal on Mon 16th Jul 12

Dan Shaviro's view:Start Making Sense: Why won't Romney release his 2009 tax return?: Increasingly, everyone agrees that the reason for Romney's reluctance to release any pre-2010 tax return might be that what it would show is worse than all the heat he is
New York Times Epic Fail Department

posted to Grasping Reality with Both Hands: Economist Brad DeLong's Fair, Balanced, and Reality-Based Semi-Daily Journal on Wed 15th Jun 11

Why oh why can't we have a better press corps?Tax expert Daniel Shaviro should not be allowed to read the New York Times without a health aide standing by with a syringe of thorazine--he might run across Casey Mulligan writing about tax policy:Dan:Start Making