Tantalizing Linkage

links, thoughts, and information curated by Andrew Hofer

Main menu

Skip to content
  • About Me
  • Tweets

Tag Archives: Inequality

CBO Inequality Data via Brookings

February 23, 2014

Gary Burtless brings us changes in real after-tax income for various quantiles, since 1979 and 2000.  Unsurprisingly, the incomes of the wealthy have a much higher beta to the economy than the poor.  Yet people keep presenting that as a … Continue reading →

Posted in Inequality | Reply

Saturday Links: global poverty, inequality, happiness, identities, unemployment benefits, assortative mating

February 8, 2014

Poverty and global inequality are falling. (and perhaps faster than traditional studies indicate) I’ve made this point a few times. The best summary was on Vox EU. In an article called Parametric estimations of the world distribution of income. World … Continue reading →

Posted in Economics, Inequality, Lifestyles | Replies: 1

Friday Links – outrage and outsiders, work, inequality and ‘how rival is your marriage’

February 7, 2014

More on the progressivity of the Tax system from AEI and the CBO, incorporating tax shares and income shares Bad news is good news.  Killing jobs, discouraging work and ACA The demise of the Great Gatsby curve.  The inequality debate is … Continue reading →

Posted in Inequality, Uncategorized | Reply

More on tax progressivity

February 5, 2014

Adding on to my own analysis about time series trends in income tax progressivity, Professor Munger offers this analysis from the Tax Policy Center. In 2012, the top quintile of the income distribution received 52.5 percent of income and paid 68.3 percent … Continue reading →

Posted in Inequality, Taxes and Spending | Reply

How many tax returns are the top 0.1%?

December 5, 2012

I had not quite realized how few households pundits are talking about.  I’ve railed against exhibits like this one, because they are used by people who don’t distinguish between the 1%, the 0.1% and the ridiculous 0.01% in the graph: … Continue reading →

Posted in Economics, Taxes and Spending, Uncategorized | Reply

Tax Burden – Interactive graphics

December 3, 2012

The NYT comes through with a terrific set of interactive graphics on the tax burden over time. Some of the series are subject to the same analytical shortcomings I’ve discussed elsewhere, but they’ve laid data out in a really appealing … Continue reading →

Posted in Economics, Taxes and Spending | Reply

The Grumpy Economist: Taxes and cliffs

December 3, 2012

John Cochrane does a superb job of walking through the unfairness at the low end of the income tax system Written into law is a much larger welfare state than we actually have. Americans don’t fully play the game. Yet. … Continue reading →

Posted in Taxes and Spending | Reply

Discontinuity in reported income

December 2, 2012

I’ve made reference (in my series of posts on taxes and inequality) to potential reported discontinuities in reported income. I downloaded the CBO’s data on taxes from 1979-2009 and created this graph from the reported figures for the top 1% … Continue reading →

Posted in Inequality, Taxes and Spending | Reply

Orders of Magnitude – The Top basis Point

December 2, 2012

Consider the following three graphs which seem to tell different stories. You have to read carefully to see that they don’t directly contradict each other:       Recently Annie Lowrey, blogging in the “debt Reckoning” section , posts the top graphic … Continue reading →

Posted in Media, Taxes and Spending | Reply

An inventory of current beliefs on taxation, inequality and fairness

December 2, 2012

In my prior link compendium, the middle section of the post listed my prior beliefs about taxes and inequality. I’m going to separate and refine them here. As you can tell, I’ve already done a fair amount of reading on … Continue reading →

Posted in Economics, Inequality, Taxes and Spending | Replies: 1

Post navigation

← Older posts

RSS

  • RSS - Posts
  • RSS - Comments

Categories

  • Academia
  • Audio
  • Bias and Behavior
  • Economics
  • Energy and Environment
  • Foreign Affairs
  • Healthcare
  • Ideology and Philosophy
  • Inequality
  • Investing
  • Lifestyles
  • Media
  • Politics
  • Reading and Accessibility
  • Science
  • Taxes and Spending
  • Uncategorized

Pages

  • About Me
  • Tweets

Blogroll

  • Askblog
  • Marginal Revolution
  • The Spirit of Enterprise

My Web Presence

  • My Facebook Page
  • My Google+ Page
  • My Kindle Reading Notes
  • My LinkedIn Profile
  • My Newsblur Comments
  • My Twitter Page

Meta

  • Log in
  • Entries feed
  • Comments feed
  • WordPress.org
Powered by WordPress and Foghorn