Paul Caron at The Tax Prof Blog provides a long listing of links to the furor over the gas tax issue. And he offers thorough review as well. I agree with the order of the listings in importance.

The Vancouver Sun notes that a new carbon tax has begun in British Colombia. I do not know how it is implemented, but want to note the start of an experiment at the least. The carbon tax is a fiscal trip to the woodshed for energy consumers. A painful experience that we’re told is for […]

There is a steadily increasing drumbeat of accusations by American officials such as Rice, Mullen, CIA, regarding Iran’s role in Iraq and their nuclear capabilities, and more ultimatums from Maliki regarding militias.

The Milken Institute had a conference that included Professor Mark Thoma of Economist’s View, Felix Salmon of Market Movers, Yves Smith of Naked Capitalism, and Paul Kedrosky of Infectious Greed. The video is about an hour long, interesting especially after the first eight minutes, and lets you put a face to the names. Updated.

CoRev sends along the following information as the news hits the UK papers and today’s New York Times. UH OH! NASA, Jet Propulsion Laboratory announced that the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) has flipped to its cool phase. The last time this happened was in 1946, and for the next three decades we had cooler than […]

Special May Day Whittle by ilsm: GAO Testimony Apr 29 2008 on the widely commented upon DoD acquisition problems with the 95 Systems they reviewed this year. States part of the problems at the “What GAO Found” page: “In addition, only a small percentage of programs used two key systems engineering tools- preliminary design reviews […]

Cactus notes: James Pethokoukis continues misinforming readers (why does he do this? is it some sort of a hobby?) out at US News and World Report: Out: Recession. In: Expansion. That’s my quick take ontoday’s first-quarter gross domestic product number, which showed thatthe economy grew 0.6 percent in the first quarter. Nevermind that these figures […]

On Wednesday night, Hillary Clinton will appear in a pretaped interview on Fox News‘ “The O’Reilly Factor.”

Steve Benen at The Carpetbagger Report comments on the President’s reassurances at a White House press conference today, keeping his tax cuts as a way out of the slowdown. In all seriousness, how many people who are worried about theirfamilies’ finances right now are going to say, “I’ve been reallyworried, but now that I know […]

The post on GDP and inflation was removed for inaccuracies in statistics.