My maternity leave is fast encroaching. While I look forward to a break from the deadlines, the commuting and the office-chair-induced butt ache, I am also beset by a conundrum: what to do with the blog? Hit pause till I return to desk duty? Collar a kind colleague to squat in my space? Cease and desist?
I discussed this recently with …
…because I don’t care. I don’t care enough that I didn’t even watch the finale last night. And now, having read Jim Poniewozik’s spoiler recap, I don’t have to. (Hint: David wins.)
I used to talk about A.I. at work, with anyone unlucky enough to happen by my office when I dragged in on a Wednesday …
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.
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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 …
Lately I’ve been hearing about some innovative benefits offered by big companies. Microsoft started a pilot program last year for house calls—rather, desk calls—by in-house doctors to employees. So if you’re coughing up a lung at 3 p.m., rather than hobbling off to some distant clinic you just keep pecking away at your Google-slaying …
Ah, summer. I can practically taste the season of sangria and barbecue coming, what with the record rainfall and brisk temperatures in the Northeast. My summer will be spent tending to a newborn—who’ll be not the least colicky, I just know it—and traveling with her and her sister to my family’s home in Japan, where the party will be …
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 …
…but Saturday Night Live’s skit this past weekend could change that. My friend Christine Chen asked, “Are they actually saying anything?” And the answer is: absolutely, if you think the characters in the American version are saying anything. But, yes, it all translates—down to the corporate sign (Dandaa Mifurin), the name plate …
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 …
I can think of a dozen really solid reasons Americans should embrace telecommuting. Working from home instead of at a remote office frees up hours of time every day. That extra time eases our stress and makes us better employees and citizens. It also gentles our impact on the environment, on city services, on bridges, tunnels and roads. …
