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Teaching Energy As a Business
Why I built a new Energy Finance course at Stanford, and how you can follow along
 • Joshua Rauh
How to Reform the CBO and JCT for Transparency and Accountability
Demand replicability, appoint a transparency advocate, require sensitivity analysis and confidence ratings, and narrow the mission. Part 5 in our…
 • Joshua Rauh, Daniel Heil, and Benjamin Jaros
California’s Costly Wealth Tax Experiment
A letter rejected by the Wall Street Journal, published here at Liberty Lens.
 • Joshua Rauh and Benjamin Jaros
Now You See It, Now You Don’t: The Scorekeepers' Shifting Estimates
How opaque model updates undermine trust in CBO and JCT
 • Joshua Rauh, Daniel Heil, and Benjamin Jaros
Hubris in Scorekeeping: Why Confidence Needs a Calibration
CBO and JCT predictions based on highly uncertain models and parameters need sensitivity analysis -- or at least a flag. Part 3 of our series on…
 • Joshua Rauh, Daniel Heil, and Benjamin Jaros
Testimony on Tax Policy at the Reagan Library
The big bill will be pro-growth, pro-prosperity. I disagree that it explodes the deficit, but we still have monumental spending problems. PS: Ask CBO …
 • Joshua Rauh
(Un)Conventional Tax Scoring
Transparency improvements are necessary to restore trust, especially around assumptions on taxpayer responses to policy. Part 2 of our series on…
 • Joshua Rauh, Daniel Heil, and Benjamin Jaros
Liberty Lens - An Economics Substack
Liberty Lens - An Economics Substack
Questioning assumptions and re-assessing conventional wisdom
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