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…that's in the doldrums," Laffer said. "It's not a magic sauce, it's common sense. "You've got to get rid of all federal taxes in the extreme and replace them with a low-rate flat tax on business net sales, and on personal unadjusted gross income. That's number one. "Number two, y...

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…ses Mathematical Illustrations* Slide 273-274 1) Medicare benefits — reduce them by 53% (or cap them)? or 2) Medicare tax rate — increase it by 4 percentage points? Policy Options Slide 275-328 1) Combination of mathematical illustrations — reduce benefits and/or increase tax...

…icing costs, ample savings and confidence at a 12-year high. They also stand to benefit directly from potentially lower tax rates and indirectly from higher fiscal spending, a topic we discuss in the next section. The above- mentioned factors should mitigate the headwind from hig...

…s of sovereign risk models. As policy changes are worked through governments (e.g. the terms of Brexit and US corporate tax reform), there will be wider implications for long-term geographic and asset allocation - Emerging markets face various macro challenges, with commodity pr...

…in 2018, alongside further administered price adjustments for energy, water and electricity. Implementation of the land tax is likely, but it is unclear whether the proceeds will be ring-fenced to be used solely for housing projects. Using solely the recurring existing proceeds o...

5/29/2019 Opinion | Trump Hands China an Easy Win in the Trade War - The New York Times Trump Hands China an Easy Win in the Trade War The presidentʼs tough rhetoric plays into Chinese economic nationalism. By Kevin Rudd Mr. Rudd, a former prime minister of Australia, is the pre...

Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management Eric D.K. Melby Principal, The Scowcroft Group A founding Principal of The Scowcroft Group, Eric D. K. Melby has extensive experience in telecommunications, energy and investment support. He also advises clients on market entry and geopolitica...

Last year witnessed a growing repudiation of this status quo, evident in the surprise outcome of the UK and Italian referenda, as well as US presidential election. As we begin 2017, these winds of change are gaining force. Central banks are acknowledging the often counterproducti...

APPENDIX 1 Chinese Influence Operations Bureaucracy While recent months have brought increased attention to the United Front Work Department, or “United Front activities,” it is important to emphasize that this is but one of many institutions within the Chinese party-state invo...

In most White Houses, policy and action flow down, with staff trying to implement what the president wants—or, at the very least, what the chief of staff says the president wants. In the Trump White House, policy making, from the very first instance of Bannon’s immigration EO, fl...

Article 4. The National Interest Foreign-Policy Failure Dimitri K. Simes August 24, 2011 -- PRESIDENT BARACK Obama is in many respects the opposite of Richard Nixon and George H. W. Bush, both foreign-policy presidents who subordinated their domestic ambitions to America’s na...

be equivalent to a SAR100bn cumulative spending cut, which we believe can be accommodated from capex retrenchment. On the basis of the above, fiscal consolidation would likely drive real GDP growth lower to an average of just around 1% of GDP. This estimate is based on a ST GCC f...

…y. His reward for great achievements on the world stage was to be defeated in the 1992 election. After all, he’d raised taxes. He’d let the size of government grow. Confronted by a grocery store checkout scanner, he looked like a genteel space cadet. So he had his comeuppance fro...