Category: Economics
But They Got A Headline
October 26th, 2009Rich Germans demand higher taxes
The group held a demonstration in Berlin on Wednesday to draw attention to their plans, throwing fake banknotes into the air.
Mr Vollmer said it was "really strange that so few people came". more »
Cramer On Bonuses
October 24th, 2009Complicating The Tax Code
October 23rd, 2009When Work Doesn't Pay For The Middle Class
How did a middle-class single mom wind up with a 79% marginal tax rate? At $120,000 she would pay $16,500 a year more in federal and state taxes, wouldn't qualify for the five-year $12,000-a-year cut in her m… more »
Told You So
October 21st, 2009Thanks to Uncle Sam, now we all get to subsidize the cheats who don't pay their credit card bills.
USA Today: Latest bank fee is for paying off credit card on time every month
These fees are the credit card industry's response to credit card legisl… more »
Government 101
October 21st, 2009Albany insanity, caught on tape: Senators fight to preserve an expensive relic -- stenographers
Their technophobia would be funny if it weren't costing taxpayers a bundle. Union-backed human stenographers on the Workers' Comp payroll - the ones whose… more »
Let Them In... Especially The Smart Ones
October 20th, 2009Immigrant Scientists Create Jobs and Win Nobels
Amazingly, if as incoming students they had told U.S. immigration authorities that they hoped to stay on as entrepreneurs after graduation, they would have been turned back at the border. Our immigration… more »
More Chicago
October 20th, 2009Interesting analysis of the Olympic vote and prediction markets: Did Prediction Markets Get Chicago Wrong? more »
There's An App For That
October 19th, 2009Ex-TV Executive Creates Way to Kill People for $1 more »
The War On Clouds
October 18th, 2009Moscow Mayor Promises a Winter Without Snow
For just a few million dollars, the mayor's office will hire the Russian Air Force to spray a fine chemical mist over the clouds before they reach the capital, forcing them to dump their snow outside the cit… more »
Stock Market Rally?
October 16th, 2009DOW 10,000!!!! Oh Wait, Make That 7,537
...the truth is that over the past 10 years (the first time the DJIA was at 10,000) the dollar has lost 25% of its value. Therefore, we present the Dow over the last decade indexed for the DXY, which has dropped… more »
Well Done, Reason
October 15th, 2009In response to my favorite op-ed of the year. more »
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