Housing sales can be boosted siginificantly — at no taxpayer cost — bythe federal government taking one simple step to reform the way houses are bought, sold, and financed.
Read Full PostThe bank dealers that dominate trading in U.S. Treasury bonds routinely use information from customers about their impending transactions to illegally profit by trading ahead of them. Although this allegation is based on my experience trading Treasuries for J.P. Morgan for a dozen years, front-running should be equally common in any market with the same [...]
Read Full Post…this blog is on hiatus until the second edition of the book is out, which should be within the next month.
Read Full PostSome of the other finalist ideas besides the winner about the phone books are listed below.
Instead of taxing private golf clubs at the open-space rate normally used for farms etc, create a category of land tax halfway between true open space and full taxation, and allow clubs the choice of either:
(1) truly becoming open space, with no fences and [...]
People should be allowed to post Ghostbusters-type stickers (walking fingers with clash through them) to prohibit yellow pages companies from leaving their books on your doorstep.
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