New Orleans Yesterday was a tough day in the world of the Chief Organizer’s Report. Our website was shutdown again for four hours because of spam attacks. Usually our server hosts can beat this back, but yesterday as they told me “the bad guys won one.” Ironically this was on the same day that I …
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Toil Index and Tax Credits for Home Ownership
Robert Schiller from Yale gave props to Richard Green of USC for his recommendation that there be a targeted tax credit to encourage homeownership. Green and Andrew Reschovsky of Wisconsin have studied the data closely are clear that the real benefit of existing tax policy allowing a standard deduction for interest on mortgages is for …