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Two weeks ago I was critical of Senator John McCain’s proposal for a national “gas tax holiday.”
Now Senator Hillary Clinton is backing a similar idea. Though she has added a twist to the proposal with a windfall-profits tax on oil companies, the idea of a gas tax holiday is still a bad one, regardless of [...]
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Actually, the title should be “How to Be a Millionaire and Never Pay Taxes.” Money Magazine has half the secret. Steve Martin has the other.
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Been following the financial markets lately? Stocks up, stocks down. Gas and oil prices up, up some more, and yet still more before pausing for everyone to catch their breath. Falling interest rates, rising anxieties.
I have noticed in recent day that the mainstream news media seem even more intent on characterizing daily events as some kind [...]
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So, it’s been a week. Let’s take stock (no pun in ten did). Or better yet, let’s not.
Earlier this week, economist and New York Times op-ed contributor Paul Krugman said, “In a worst-case scenario, the Federal Reserve would find itself owning around $200 billion worth of mortgage-backed securities.”
Then, what happens? You guessed it - the [...]
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In a recent editorial, the editor of our local weekly (weakly?) paper said that people who drive SUVs and then complain about gas prices are hypocrites. Aside from trying to trying to provoke a reaction - which he has obviously accomplished - he is just plain wrong.
Let’s start with what a hypocrite is:
a person who [...]
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Interesting that American Public Media should have started its series “Consumed” today. For some time now, but becoming even more pronounced in recent weeks, is a growing sense I’ve had that we have finally begun to see the results of our (unsustainable) consumer culture. For everyone on Earth to consume the way the average American [...]
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