I thought this was interesting, coming as it does from a former chairman of President Bush’s Council of Economic Advisers (Greg Mankiw, in case you don’t feel like clicking though).
Mankiw quotes a John McCain interview with National Review in which the Senator declares:
Tax cuts, starting with Kennedy, as we all know, increase
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A couple of weeks before Google announced in October that it was buying YouTube, Mark Cuban famously declared that “anyone who buys [YouTube] is a moron.” Speaking before a group of advertisers in New York, he went on:
They are just breaking the law. The only reason it hasn’t been sued yet is because there is nobody with big money to
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I was in Chicago yesterday covering a conference. My job there involved walking up to strangers in an unfamiliar if not totally hostile setting, introducing myself, and engaging them in intimate conversation. This is, in fact, pretty much what a lot of my job entails.
There was a time when the prospect would make me sweat like a sumo …
A reader had this to ask about my column on the shrinking federal deficit:
You say: “…federal expenditures are up 19% since 2004, to a projected $2.7 trillion in fiscal 2007 (on the whole, this has been the most spendthrift Administration since Lyndon Johnson’s).”
Yet, most programs that benefit or potentially benefit ordinary
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I shared my views on Halliburton and Dubai over in the Swampland comments section, and one reader asked:
How is that possible? As I understand it, they are working on cost-plus contracts, which means their profit is built in. Now whether it is skimmed off for bribery and malfeasance is another question, but if they purport they are not
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I got a nice note from Brodie, star of the video résumé I featured here. I had posted his TVCV, which he’d sent to CareerBuilder’s Disney Dream Job Contest for pirates, parade performers and the like.
Thanks for the link and the kind words. My Haunted Mansion video was not chosen to be a finalist… because my Jungle Cruise video
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The announcement by Halliburton that it is moving its headquarters to Dubai (actually, the company says it is opening “a headquarters” there, but it’s where the CEO will be so it sounds like the headquarters to me) is sure to be greeted by all sorts of theorizing about the company trying to escape U.S. regulators and Congressional …
Re Thursday’s post about the profit margins of online brokers, this list of the Top 50 Internet advertisers by media value (by TNS Media Intelligence, via ClickZ Stats) showed up today in my email inbox. Among the top 15 are Fidelity, E*Trade, TD Waterhouse, and Scottrade. That’s four of the five biggest online brokers. The other, …
I’m about to take a holiday. If you can call it that. For the first two weeks in April, my sister and I are going to visit our very ill mom in Japan. It’s a 24-plus-hour trip, and factoring in (our kids’) jet lag, we’ll have maybe one good week of doctor visits, housecleaning and grandpa-sitting.
At many jobs, this one trip would gobble …
My new column, headlined “Thanks, Rich People” is up online. It’s also in print in the last of the old-look Time magazines (with Dick Cheney and a cloud on the cover). Next week everything will look different. Seriously different. Anyway, here’s how the column begins:
During the 2004 election campaign, President George W. Bush pledged to
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Here’s some unusually fresh–and wise–advice to job-hunting new grads, courtesy of the University of Southern California’s planning and placement center:
1) Your handbag should not be bigger than your skirt.
This one’s for the ladies, but men, take heed too: Interviews are not the place for trend-setting. If you want to dress to
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I had lunch Tuesday with Don Montanaro, CEO of a newish online brokerage called TradeKing. In case you hadn’t heard, the online brokerage business is back, with record volume in February.
Montanaro was one of the founders of Suretrade.com, an early online broker later devoured by Fleet which was itself later devoured by Bank of America. …
