I guess I expected something different.
We’ve been hearing a lot of fuss here in New Jersey about our transition to electronic voting booths. Said the New York Times,
All polling places in New Jersey, Delaware and Georgia, as well as most in Tennessee and some in Arkansas, will use paperless touch-screen
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Kevin Hassett and Aparna Mathur of the American Enterprise Institute have a new paper (pdf!) in which they argue that high corporate taxes depress manufacturing wages. NYU law professor Daniel Shaviro allows that they might be right (although they might not) but then asks a crucial question:
What to do with the corporate tax if labor
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The Super Bowl apparently drew 97.5 million viewers in the U.S. Sunday night. Which, in a nation of 301 million people, is pretty impressive (it’s 32% of the population).
But I’ve taken to listening to Dutch radio news on my iPod lately, so I can report that it didn’t hold a candle to crime reporter Peter de Vries’s two-hour show Sunday …
The White House released its proposed FY 2009 budget this morning, complete with pledge that the budget will be back in balance by 2012. Which is, um, three years after George Bush leaves office.
In the meantime, the Office of Management and Budget is projecting that, after several years of shrinking, the deficit will grow dramatically …
I admit it: I’m so not interested in American football that I could barely be bothered to glance up for the commercials. So I missed these live. But my Asian colleagues in journalism are fuming today about two spots from the same company, SalesGenie.com. One involves an Indian salesman, Ramesh, who explains in a thick accent to an …
Read this inspiring but sad story in the Wall Street Journal today about Daniela Cott, a Brazilian girl who not long ago made her living scavenging the trash piles of Buenos Aires.
Today, she is one of Argentina’s most talked-about new fashion models. Ms. Cott, now 15, recently
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Been wondering what the best-performing stock in the world was in January? Well, I just got an e-mail from Russell Investments informing me that it was Impac Mortgage Holdings, an Irvine, Calif., based REIT that specializes in buying Alt-A mortgages. IMH was up a stunning 156% in January.
What was the secret to that amazing performance? …
I’ve long ago blurred the line between what’s appropriate material for a work blog and what’s totally not. So I figure this is as good a place as any to mention what was foremost on my mind this morning as I headed in to work: the little creature inside me—whom we’ve been calling Blurgh because that’s how it made me feel for the first …
When the news came out Friday morning that Microsoft was making a $44.6 billion bid for Yahoo, I’ve got to admit that I sorta yawned. There’d been talk of this for months and months and months already, and the whole combination just seemed, as Lev Grossman put it, “weirdly uninteresting.”
The actual prospect of Microsoft buying Yahoo …
Lots of gloomy Wall Street economists wrote explanations over the past couple days of why good employment numbers didn’t mean the economy was doing better. They did that because payroll services company ADP estimated Wednesday that the economy added 130,000 jobs in January.
Ummm, not quite. Now the Labor Department has come out with its …
By the time I was ready to graduate college, I didn’t much waver in my choice of careers. My laser-like focus on journalism jobs was dictated by my utter lack of any other skill. I grabbed my b.a. in journalism, took the NJ Transit train straight to my first reporting job (making $20 gees at Adweek, thank you very much), and have never …
After two years of talking about it, Microsoft finally put in a formal bid for Yahoo this morning. Yahoo had a really bad earnings report a couple days ago, making the deal a little cheaper than it would have otherwise been.
The deal here seems to be that Steve Ballmer & Co. think the world will support one more online advertising …
