Over at the NYT Economix blog: looking at the promises and pitfalls of House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp’s tax plan and explaining how to undo the structural damage to potential GDP growth.

• Explaining the false choice between a higher EITC or minimum wage.

• Sounding alarms on BLS’s curtailment of the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages program.

• Pointing out the reduction of the EITC in Chairman Camp’s tax plan.

• Analyzing Q4’s GDP mark down and what we should expect this year.

• Evaluating Federal Reserve activity and skittish financial markets.

• Looking at why the policy process suffers when policymakers assign too much credibility to highly uncertain forecasts/projections.

• Pondering the relationship between marijuana legalization, productivity, and spiders.

• Examining the evidentiary bias in Rep. Paul Ryan’s new poverty report.