From Blaine Harden in today’s Washington Post:
Jerome White Jr. wears a do-rag while crooning syrupy ballads — in perfect Japanese — about lost love.
Part Public Enemy, part Sinatra, part schmaltz, it’s an act the Japanese public has never seen before, and it is making him a star.
Jero, as he is marketed here, has a hugely successful
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That’s the positive spin. The latest S&P/Case-Shiller home-price numbers (pdf) are out. I may put together a pretty chart later, but I’ve got a column to write today. The headline is that the national home price index, which they only calculate once a quarter, is down 14.1% for the year ending in March. That’s, um, a lot. Las Vegas is …
For reasons I’m not entirely clear on, the May Monthly Mustache Interview at the American Mustache Institute website is with me. As for why it is only now, with just a week left in May, appearing online, I am entirely clear on that: I was embarrassingly slow about answering the questions.
Anyway, the AMI interview subjects seem to …
It’s always fun when a future Nobel-prize-winner comments on your blog. It’s even better when the comment can be recycled as a post of its own.
First, a little context. I was annotating James Pethokoukis’s list of “five ideas that both liberals and conservatives might agree on that also could actually improve economic growth” (itself a …
A lack of conveniently located electrical outlets to plug your laptop (or phone charger or whatever) into at the airport is one of the great scourges of American travelers. So I was really impressed with this seemingly jury-rigged solution at the Charlotte airport. A long outlet strip was attached to the outside of a moving walkway, …
Just because I go ballistic on people who claim that tax cuts increase tax receipts doesn’t mean I think the conservative case on taxes is wrong. In fact, I think people like Stephen Moore and Larry Kudlow are actually damaging that conservative case in a big way by spouting such obvious nonsense about the impact of changes in tax rates. …
What you see there is a big container ship headed down the Savannah River, bound for China or some such place. I didn’t have time to do a good job of framing the photo, but you get the basic idea: Charming, leafy old downtown Savannah in the foreground, modern commerce floating by in the background.
(More after the break.)
The WSJ ran an opinion piece Tuesday by David Ranson, head of research at H.C. Wainwright & Co. Economics, on what he calls “Hauser’s Law”–the observation apparently made by “San Francisco investment economist Kurt Hauser” 15 years ago that:
No matter what the tax rates have been, in postwar America tax revenues have remained at about
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You request. I deliver. Here’s the chart that commenter Brew asked for:
There’s a bunch of caveats I feel compelled to throw out: Corporate income is taxed twice–once as corporate income and once as either capital gains or dividend income, which are both counted under personal taxes. Also, economists …
Assuming that our nation’s excellent and reliable air transportation system cooperates, I will be spending Wednesday and Thursday in Greater Metropolitan Savannah on a reporting trip. I have a couple of roboposts lined up for today (Wednesday), and hope to share some lovely trip photos after that. But if there turn out to be any major …
James Pethokoukis at U.S. News reads my cover story on the next president and the economy and notes correctly that despite what it says on the cover, it doesn’t really offer any prescription for economic growth (I had nothin’ to do with that cover language). Then he goes all Matt Miller and offers “five ideas that both liberals and …
This photo, which accompaniesd a disturbing story by Hannah Beech, was taken on the outskirts of Naypyidaw, Burma’s new capital. The billboard is advertising a new hotel–apparently there isn’t much in Naypyidaw but new hotels. In case you’re having trouble reading the words on it, they …
