Economy & Policy

The blogging will not stop

By wpcomimportuser1 | February 13, 2008 | +

Thrilling news! I have lined up a sucker friend and colleague to take over for me for the rest of this week and all of next! Her name is Barbara Kiviat (you can read her recent Time articles here). She’s younger than me and smarter than me and works harder than me, and, most importantly, she’s a one-time recipient of a Johns Hopkins Provost’s Undergraduate Research Award for a study titled “Suburbanizing Small Town, U.S.A.: The Meta-Myth of Salisbury, Md.” (Just found that on the Google.)

It is true that, on the crucial subjects of Danish taxation and Dutch pop culture, Barbara’s level of expertise is, shall we say, less than impressive. But don’t be too hard on her for that.

She’s planning to start Thursday. Enjoy!

Related Topics: Economy & Policy

  • Latest on Business

    Associated Press
    Apple May 25, 2012

    Apple CEO Cook Gives Up $75M in Stock Dividends

    NEW YORK — Apple CEO Tim Cook is giving up $75 million in dividends on restricted stock that the company is awarding to all of its employees.

    In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday, Apple Inc. said that Cook requested that his restricted stock units not receive dividends. The dividends that Apple workers are getting amount to $2.65 per quarter for each restricted stock unit held. The shares are not normally eligible to receive dividends, so Apple’s decision is a perk for its employees.

    From our Partners

    The Bomb Hidden in Mitt Romney's Education PlanSlate

    Associated Press
    Economy May 25, 2012

    Study: Typical CEO Pay Up 6% to $9.6 Million

    NEW YORK — Profits at big U.S. companies broke records last year, and so did pay for CEOs.

    The head of a typical public company made $9.6 million in 2011, according to an analysis by The Associated Press using data from Equilar, an executive pay research firm.

  • That Anonymous Dude

    JP at tuned in went on vacation too…

    The withdrawal..it burns IT BURNS!….ack..

    Welcome aboard BK..

    If I may bring you up to speed on Danish Taxation…

    They have lousy weather. They have high taxes. They don’t say hi to each other in the supermarket. They are ‘scandanavian’ even though they are on the mainland and the other scandanavians are across the baltic sea and get to eat reindeer and moose (meese?) (both are yum btw) and laugh at the danes. They may or may not have invented the danish ring. There is a bridge between copenhagen and malmo (missing an umlaut in there somewhere) in sweden (I’ve been to both, I suspect the traffic is all the malmoans leaving..but I could be wrong). Many young people leave the country (and are not taking the bridge to malmo).

    Whether the high taxes causes the emigration, or the lack of hi’s at the supermarket causes the high taxes or if the young are just really into danish rings which were not made in Denmark is subject to ongoing debate. the fringe believes all of this is caused by the reduced moose eating in their diet.

    Regarding Dutch pop culture..I think I’ve done enough work here already.

blog comments powered by Disqus