Economics
Here is an amusing, yet depressing, Gallup headline, Republicans All Alone in Viewing the Economy as in Good Shape Independents and Democrats are quite negative PRINCETON, NJ — Americans continue to resist giving the nation’s economy positive ratings, regardless of what so-called “hard” economic indicators may show. Only about a third of Americans rate the […]
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The charades and shenanigans by insiders at Sirius Satellite is fun to watch, especially if you are NOT a shareholder. Back in January we wrote about Howard Stern’s massive stock grant and and his surprise filing to sell all 34 million of his shares (he has not sold any yet; maybe he should have, the […]
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What makes the blogosphere such a valuable resource are the subject matter experts who share their insight and experience with one and all. Professor Gary S. Becker, Graduate School of Business at The University of Chicago, takes a sober, balanced look at The Economics of the Iraq War on the fantastic Becker-Posner blog, I believe […]
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Only at Mark Cuban’s Blog Maverick can you find back to back posts about the influence of music on the energy in an NBA arena, followed by a complicated story about naked short selling. A Treasure Trove is what it is.
About a month ago on our radio program Kevin and I interviewed a college classmate and current director of WalMartWatch Andrew Grossman regarding Maryland’s Democratic legislatures unilateral imposition of a “fair share health care” law on companies that employ over 10,000 people (which in Maryland’s case is only WalMart). I said on the program that […]
The ubiquitous argument from the wealth redistributionist-lefties is always that tax cuts primarily benefit the “rich” and will result in decreased tax revenue which will “increase the deficit.” I wonder how much more empirical evidence so-called economists such as Robert Rubin and Paul Krugman need before they actually grasp a concept that any first year […]
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Tom Blumer of BizzyBlog is out today with his regular takedown of sloppy/lazy/uninformed/biased (take your pick) economic reporting from the Associated Press. Check it out.
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