This paper posits an information channel as the explanation for sudden inflations. Consumers saving via nominal government bonds face a choice whether to acquire costly information about future government surpluses. They trade off the cost of acquiring information about the surpluses that back...

This paper analyzes the Final Report of the President's National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform and compares the recommendations to those of The Debt Reduction Task Force of the Bipartisan Policy Center

This article proposes a progressive system of mark-to-market taxation.Under the proposal, all public companies, all private companies with $50 million or more of net assets, and all individuals and married couples with $1.6 million of adjusted gross income or $5 million of publicly traded...

On January 24, 2013, Congressman Dave Camp (R-MI), the Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, released the discussion draft of a bill that would tax derivatives under a mark-to-market system of taxation. This truly Copernican proposal would replace our entire federal system of taxing...