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McBush on Economics
The McCain economic agenda: $1.7 trillion tax cut for corporations, $300 billion a year in tax cuts that aren’t paid for, and a plan that delivers 58% of the benefits to the top 1% of taxpayers and only 9% to the bottom 80%.
more fromthinkprogress.org
Microsoft Takes It's Marbles and Goes Home ... For Now
Kara Swisher doesn't translate as well as Jon Gruber.
more fromkara.allthingsd.com
Bazaar Order
Wigix is working to offer some order to the wild world of online selling. eBay's site looks like some MySpace teens designed a souk, while Amazon cuts a large slice of meager profits. Wigix is cheaper, but demands I become an "expert" for any product not listed. Too much friction at this stage for me to try another sale.
more fromwww.techcrunch.com
Quit Dissing the IRS
Without the taxman we'd be tithing to our fuedal landlords.
more fromwww.slate.com
Going broke saving money
McCain's economic plan mixes austerity and tax cuts, which all pale in comparison to the $12 billion we're burning a month in Iraq. Penny wise pound foolish.
more fromonline.wsj.com
Deficit Thinking
Asked about balancing the budget, McCain cites Regan's example of stimulating the economy. The deficit nearly tripled during the Reagan presidency, partly due to tax cuts and increases in military spending. D'oh.
more fromthecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com
ATA Bids Aloha to Business
ATA's sudden shutdown strands passengers attempting to get to Hawaii. Aloha shut down a few days ago. We're going in Sept. on Hawaiian Air. Please, Hawaiian, stay in business.
more fromwww.sfgate.com
Set Blood to Boil
The most clear, insightful and damning explanation of the credit crisis I've heard is also the most compelling argument against what boils down to legalized, unregulated betting.
more fromwww.npr.org
Overclass Welfare
The Bush Administration springs into action to save financial institutions imperiled by the myopic greed of a privileged few. If only Katrina's victims had moved to the Hamptons.
more fromwww.slate.com
Dropouts Off the Charts
NCLB doesn't mandate a standard measurement for dropout rates, so each state has it's own -- and often keeps two sets of books to avoid embarrassment and funding cuts. Let's at least measure the problem correctly.
more fromwww.nytimes.com
Wall Street Welfare
"Never do I want to hear again from my conservative friends about how brilliant capitalists are, how much they deserve their seven-figure salaries and how government should keep its hands off the private economy."
more fromwww.washingtonpost.com
Branding Disaster
Bloggers are rallying to name the finacial crisis that started with subprime mortgages last year and just claimed Bear Sterns. "The Big Shitpile" is the sentimental favorite, but Justin Fox is working for a real name here. "Gulf War II" never caught on li
more fromtime-blog.com
$0.00
Why free is the future of business.
more fromwww.wired.com
Comcast takes on AT&T with faster Net service
Competition is good. I'm getting 9.9Mbps now. 16Mpbs down will be better. Docsis 3.0 is better still. Comcast promises to deliver download speeds of up to 100 Mbps later this year. Then again, they promised TiVo two years ago -- and I still don't have it.
more fromwww.sfgate.com
Use credit cards like debit cards to avoid suicide
Americans, like their government, can't spend with their means.
more fromonline.wsj.com
Untax and Spend
The stimulus package seems like a nice way to spend tomorrow's tax dollars now and mortgage more of our future to the Chinese. Oh well, who wants to tell voters it's time to tighten their belts.
more frommoney.cnn.com
Microsoft's head is in the clouds
Microsoft's $44 billion bid for Yahoo isn't just about advertising and eyeballs. It's is also about business users, cloud computing, and finding a way to keep up with Google as the Internet becomes an operating system.
more fromblogs.wsj.com
Legacy of Deficits Will Constrain Bush's Successor
He has squandered surpluses that could have helped pay down the $5 trillion federal debt. And he has let two terms pass without persuading Congress to take action that would preserve the government's social programs.
more fromonline.wsj.com
The World Bails Us Out
"The United States is in the beginning of a period of relative decline. This is not defeatism, it's math."
more fromwww.newsweek.com
Eagerly Awaiting Perot's Graphs and Charts Again
Ross Perot won't be running for president at age 77, but he is launch a Web site next month with plenty of the charts and graphs he made famous when explaining the deficit in 1992.
more fromwww.newsweek.com
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