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The Capital Gains Tax and Inflation

By Daniel Bergstresser·August 13, 2018
Brandeis University

The Issue:

The United States Treasury Department is reportedly studying whether it can issue regulations that would allow taxpayers to account for inflation when calculating taxes on capital gains. Such a change has been considered in the past. Taxing savings, like taxing any economic activity, distorts the functioning ...
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What’s the Problem with Low Inflation?

By Michael Klein·August 6, 2017
Fletcher School, Tufts University

The Issue:

Today's low inflation has some economists puzzled. The Federal Reserve has persistently undershot its inflation target of 2 percent since 2012, when it established this level of inflation as one of its policy goals. Modest inflation has a number of benefits, and some concerns have been raised by the persistence ...
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