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...recently read the article "The 7 Best Web Sites@Harvard" in the Science and Technology section (Apr. 7). In choosing the "best" web sites, the writer, Scott A. Penner, seemed to focus on design, organization, and usefulness in the sense that someone might use this site as a reference source to get information for a paper...
...angry. I enjoy sites that provoke some sort of emotion. I may sound like a sore loser, considering that my web site was not chosen, but if for no other reason than a few laughs, check out my homepage at http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~muoio and see what you, rather than Penner, think. SCOTT D. MUOIO '00 April...
...give signs of crawling into the light. The Commerce Department reported last week that GDP grew in the third quarter at an annual rate of 2.8% -- up from 1.9% in the second. But that gathering speed is precisely why now is the time to make cuts, says economist Rudy Penner, a former CBO director. "The economy is growing. If we don't do it now, then after a while the only way we'll be able to pay the debt is to print money...
...that it vastly overestimates the extent to which non-U.S. companies have been evading taxes. "The $45 billion number is out of sight," observes Gary Hufbauer, an economist at the Institute for International Economics in Washington. "He might get $6 billion in additional revenues." Says economist Rudolph Penner, the former director of the Congressional Budget Office: "The numbers are so far off what is reasonable that it's difficult to know where to begin -- $1 billion seems more likely than $45 billion." Aside from Clinton's proposal, the highest estimate of the revenue to be gained by closing loopholes...
...cuts and half from tax increases -- amounts to 0.5% of the nation's total output of goods and services. Once the costs of the S&L bailout and the Persian Gulf mission are factored in, the real reduction for 1991 will probably be closer to $30 billion. Says Rudolph Penner, former director of the Congressional Budget Office: "In an economy of this size that's just noise...