McKinsey on Dividend Taxes McKinsey is one of the top, many say the best, management consulting firms–hardly a left-wing industry. Among their various activities, they distribute a newsletter, The McKinsey Quarterly. In the latest issue, they have a short piece entitled Eliminating the double taxation of dividends is more notable for what it won’t do […]

Precursor to The Next House Un-American Activities Commission Disloyal Activites Commission? Matt Yglesias found it first, at least among bloggers I read. I’ll just echo his sentiment: “Holy Shit!”. For the most part the wording is innocuous–though I am tempted to Fisk it–but the title alone is scary enough. AB P.S. This looks like a […]

The Washington Post on Tax Cuts Jonathan Weisman has an article entitled “President Says $550 Billion Reduction Would Create More Jobs“. Here’s a nice bit of reasoning by the president: “Some members of Congress support tax relief but say my proposal is too big,” Bush said in his Saturday radio address. “Since they already agree […]

CEO Pay For those who like to get outraged over CEO pay, take a look at this CNN/Money story. I actually have no problem with high CEO pay, as long as it is tightly linked to the performance of the company. I should probably also add, as long as the compensation committee is independent and […]

Out of the Mouths of Babes Via TBogg, this cartoon, which reminds me of the Bush exchange with Brokaw that I talked about here. AB

PBS on Blogs Josh Marshall posted yesterday that PBS’s Newshour would run a piece on blogs last night. Not reading TPM yesterday, I missed the show, but the transcript is up now. Who got the big plugs? Instapundit, Sully, Marshall (also quoted extensively), Salam Pax, John Irons (of ArgMax, but they don’t mention the name […]

Economics, Straight Up, Please Prefer your economics straight up, without political ramblings and me complaining about spam and such? Check out It’s Still the Economy. ISTE is a work in progress set up by M.B. of Wampum that is apparently developing into a team blog of left and center-left economic/political (but more economic I think) […]

Rumsfeld on Military History I caught a clip on CNN of Rumsfeld saying something to the effect that the march to Baghdad was the fastest in history. That didn’t sound true, so with the help of Google I found the exact quote (near the end): “Baghdad was liberated in less than a month, possibly the […]

More on Spam ZDNet is your Spam Info Central, for those interested. They have a page dedicated to “Spam 2003: A progress report. The amount of spam grew in March and has almost doubled from last year, threatening to cost businesses $10 billion in 2003. The best tech minds are working feverishly to help you […]

Spam and Taxing Emails Every so often I get a chain email that alleges that Congress is about to levy a tax on email. Then I think to myself, “this email is proof of why that tax might not be such a bad idea”. Not only would an emal tax cut down on chain letters, […]