… The more they stay the same. Since George W. Bush has so much in common with Herbert Hoover, particularly in the areas of jobs and trade, and since I liked Obama’s speech so much, I decided to search for the 1932 Democratic Keynote speech and see if there were any interesting parallels. I couldn’t […]

NEW YORK (CNN/Money) – Americans’ overall income shrank for two consecutive years after stocks plunged in 2000, the first time that has effectively happened since the current tax system was put in place during World War II, according to a published report Thursday. The New York Times, reporting data from the Internal Revenue Service, said […]

While Al Sharpton’s vote may not be for sale, Daniel Drezner is impressed that John Kerry cofounded a small Boston cookie shop.  Mmmmm, cookies!

Al Sharpton: good speech. My favorite line was this: You [President Bush on Friday before the Urban League] said the Republican Party was the party of Lincoln and Frederick Douglass. It is true that Mr. Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, after which there was a commitment to give 40 acres and a mule. That’s where […]

Free Trade Update Matt Yglesias reports from the convention that Laura D’Andrea Tyson (former Clinton National Economic Adviser and current Kerry advisor), in no uncertain terms, stated that Kerry supports free trade: It is an irony that “the evidence is getting stronger every day that globalization has benefits while skepticism is growing stronger.” “When people […]

Computer Science and Outsourcing Notwithstanding the cry and furor over outsourcing, and several poignant stories readers and commenters have shared, the market for computer scientists appears to still be strong: $49,691 seems pretty good for entry level computer scientists. AB

Bush More Like Carter Than Reagan … as measured by oil prices: The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) said Wednesday that crude stocks rose in the United States by 1.2 million barrels to 300.5 million barrels amid record imports of 11.3 million barrels per day (bpd). The $43 per barrel price is the loftiest level […]

The Real Deal I’ve liked Obama — the “skinny kid with a funny name” — since I first took a closer look at him last March. His speech Tuesday night was truly great. Here’s the transcript, here’s the streaming video, and here’s where you can contribute to his campaign. That said, he’s currently unopposed, so […]

A Cheesey Tax-Induced Export Subsidy with Transfer Pricing Holes Letters To Switzerland is the transfer pricing chapter of David Kay Johnson’s Perfectly Legal – who argues certain multinationals are diverting income from the U.S. Treasury offshore. The topic of transfer pricing manipulation was also raised by a John Plender and Martin Simons article in the […]

A Good Idea Digby has one: I have a public service idea for the convention bloggers. When you are talking to reporters, why don’t you all mention that they should read The Daily Howler? Sommerby does the absolute best press criticism in the blogosphere… AB