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...code and write a simpler, fairer one? How naive! Drastically reduce top tax rates to their lowest levels in 58 years by throwing out the special breaks and deductions that have accrued over the past four decades? No way! Let the free market determine how people spend and invest their money rather than allow shills for favored industries to use the tax code to tinker with the economy? Get real! Such a drastic overhaul would amount to putting the public interest ahead of special interests -- in this case nearly every interest with enough clout to hire a lobbyist. And everybody...
Some business economists are concerned that the bill could lower overall growth by crimping business investment. But the impact will depend largely on factors that are difficult to crank into a computer. Says Ira Shapiro, director of tax policy for the accounting firm Coopers & Lybrand: "The changes are so dramatic that they will alter the way people invest and consume as well as business strategies across the board...
Whatever the outlook, no one can deny that the U.S. economy is wheezing at the moment. Industrial production, which grew slowly last year, began to shrink in the second quarter of 1986 (see chart). One main cause of the malaise seems to be companies' reluctance to invest in new plants and equipment. Says Stephen Roach, an economist with the Morgan Stanley investment firm: "Capital spending is in the worst shape for any postwar expansion period." Roach projects that capital investment for all of 1986 will fall by 4.5%, compared with last year. Says he: "Every time such a contraction...
...threaten to put a tag of $100,000 or more on a turn-of-the-century education. One such measure has passed the Michigan house of representatives and is pending before the state senate. If the bill passes, as expected, it would enable Michigan parents with newborn babies to invest roughly $3,000 in future tuition with a new state authority. In return, the children would be guaranteed a full four years at any of the 15 colleges in the state system starting in 2005. For the state, meanwhile, the money would have ballooned in a way that private investments...
During the late 1970s the progressive leadership of Deng Xiaoping gave his nation's stagnating economy a much needed boost. Even foreign companies were being encouraged to invest in China, and the thought of a potential one billion customers was extremely alluring to outside ventures...