The House may not have been able to pass a transportation bill yesterday to enable the smooth functioning of two million construction jobs, but they did find the time to kill a bunch of investor protections and deregulate the securities markets: The House on Tuesday afternoon approved the final, Senate-passed version of the Jumpstart Our [...]

The House of Representatives will pass something they’re calling a jobs bill today. They accomplish this by giving it a nice acronym: the Jumpstarting Our Business Startups, or JOBS, Act. Now, jump-starting should be a hyphenated word so it really should be the J-SOBS Act, but we’ll let that slide. The really egregious things about [...]

As I’ve said, it doesn’t really look as if the Republicans want to extend the payroll tax cut. The reasons for this are almost certainly tied up with the fact that extending it would prevent a fiscal drag in 2012, meaning that the economy would be in worse shape for the incumbent President in an [...]