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Proponents of tax increases argue that the top tax rate in the U.S. and other countries used to be much higher in the past — in the U.S., in 1961, it was 91% — and yet the economy still did fine. How much truth is there to this argument?

From all the lists of best books of 2022, heres one with the potential to change public policy debate and discourse for the better. Its "The Myth of American Inequality." Its three authors are two Ph.D. economists, former Sen. Phil Gramm and his long-ago Texas A&M colleague Robert Ekelund, and former Bureau of Labor Statistics assistant commissioner John Early. Their subject is government statistics, and how they present a misleading picture of recent economic history.

From all those lists of best books of 2022, here’s one with the potential to change public policy debate and discourse for the better. It’s “The Myth of American Inequality,”

 

"The Myth of American Inequality" has the potential to change public policy debate and discourse for the better.

From all those lists of best books of 2022, here’s one with the potential to change public policy debate and discourse for the better. It’s The Myth of American Inequality, and the three authors are two Ph.D. economists, former Sen. Phil Gramm and his long-ago Texas A&M colleague Robert Ekelund, and former Bureau of Labor Statistics assistant commissioner John Early. Their subject is government statistics — and how they present a misleading picture of recent economic history.

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Unemployment remains low but for the wrong reasons

Of the 115 books I’ve read in 2022, these were my favorites touching on business trends that influence investing strategies, in order of publication.