Mindfu

May 9, 2012

Taxing the Rich to Close the Budget Gap

I read an interesting article “Taxing the wealthy: Diving into the rich pool”. The article is about how the United States and other countries are looking to their rich to tax in order to close their budget deficits and how this choice might not be the best one. The “Buffet rule” is the reform followed […]

May 7, 2012

Foreclosure: Boom and Bust

The article I read was from the Economist magazine and was entitled “What foreclosure problem?”. The article was about commentary by writer Ezra Klein from his newsletter and his views on the housing market in the United States. Ezra was supposedly informed by an economist from Moody’s that they expect 11 million foreclosures in the […]