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Lotterman: 'Sin taxes' have benefits and drawbacks
Increasing taxes on alcoholic beverages would improve the efficiency of the U.S. economy, at least marginally. Increases in taxes on tobacco or a new tax on sweetened soft drinks would not. | GO...- Lotterman: Sometimes, responsible managers make bad decisions too
- Ed Lotterman: Left, right need to keep rhetoric real
- Lotterman: To prevent future crises, the Fed must admit its role in causing the current one
- Lotterman: Financial regulation has grown into a hodgepodge
- Lotterman: Is fast-rising CEO pay a sign of U.S. market failure?
- Lotterman: How to stop state leaders from listening to siren songs
- Lotterman: Does life influence economists' decisions?
- Lotterman: Faster return to economic growth is better for Social Security
- Lotterman: Credit default swaps create perverse incentives for lenders
- Lotterman: Higher ed, military share cost similarities
- Lotterman: Do we want big banks and industrial companies or not?
- Lotterman: Picking effective yet impartial Cabinet can be tricky
- Lotterman: Thrift has drawbacks in a recession
- Administration, tax protesters delusional
- Lotterman: Good market days don't signal the end
- Ed Lotterman: 1980s farm credit crisis suggests a solution for today
- Lotterman: Recession or depression? A guide to terms
- Lotterman: Most of the nation's banks are doing fine
- Mining pollution imposes costs on the public
- Ed Lotterman: China’s wish for a ‘world currency’ is just that, a wish
- Ed Lotterman: Government needs more control over bailout funds
- Ed Lotterman: State budgets whiplashed by deficit and surplus swings
- Lotterman: Bonus system was flawed
- Lotterman: Economic arrogance can be as disastrous as military arrogance
- Obama can play large role with Fed
- Ed Lotterman: Will market for organic foods hold up during the downturn?
- Competitive markets require good info
- Lotterman: GOP says they're the fiscally responsible party, history disagrees
- Lotterman: Despite what Greenspan says, his Fed had a key role in crisis
- Lotterman: 'Buy American' mandate for feds will make firms buy foreign
- Lotterman: Retirement funds will fluctuate over time
- Spending on research, Medicaid can also stimulate the economy
- Lotterman: It is better to take care of the problem before it creates a mess
- Ed Lotterman: What we need to do in the long run will hurt us in the short run
- Ed Lotterman: Other nations can't blame U.S. for all their economic problems
- Lotterman: Bigger is not always better - sometimes bigger is clumsy
- Ed Lotterman: Bubbles and booms help swindlers
- Lotterman: Will the big minds in economic theory change course in 2009?
- Lotterman: Economists differ on whether government spending help or hurt
- Lotterman: It's going to take a while for our economy to get back in balance
- Lotterman: Don't expect to be able to account for all bailout dollars
- Lotterman: Most economic sectors were on a roller coaster ride in 2008
- Ed Lotterman: Public policies may help us or hurt us at different times
- Ed Lotterman: Madoff case calls 'efficient market' theory into question
- Lotterman: States' bans on deficits don't serve the economy
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