From my feed stack today: compelling studies that taxes are either a) too high, or b) too low?

Or to boil it down one step further: would you rather be rich or rather be happy?

Also from today's feed, before either of the above articles showed up:


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... the witches have feelings too."

The Rage of the Privileged class As It Loses Its Privileges

Gave me the giggles something fierce, it did.....

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explained...

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A lecture, some 50 minutes long, from USC's Professor Jon Taplin concerning where we are now, and where we are going. For some time now, he's been labeling our current times as an Interregnum, namely: being a period when normal government is suspended, esp. between successive reigns or regimes. Here then, is his fairly concise summary of where we ( Read more... )

one option often considered is to go back to school:

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Then again, maybe not

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is apparently falling off a cliffI really shouldn't work at home, as I get to noodle at length through my daily pile of links and feeds and podcasts, until one or two obscure links go click and make me dig around a bit, and next thing, I find things like the above. For the record, the only other place I've seen this noted in any detail was in NPR's ( Read more... )

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Went tot he office today for the first time in a dogs age- it's vewy vewy quiet there, now. People I didn't think scare easily are scared, and after all of those yearsof Perils of Pauline, I think that just maybe, the jig is up this time around. Time will tell, je?

care of Bruce Sterling & Co.Hey at least they are not *trying* to scare you, je ( Read more... )

The point spread is getting a spot wide again For those who prefer to skim, the gist is in the money quote: Power generation in developing economies where manufacturing is a high % of GDP should correlate well with GDP growth. China's power generation declined more than 8% in November. In other words, Ouch ( Read more... )