Dick Cheney’s Tax Cut
Nine years ago, George W. Bush and Dick Cheney gave the wealthiest Americans an unneeded tax cut. To this day, America’s top income-earners — households making more than $250,000 a year — aren’t paying their fair share in taxes. Letting these tax cuts for the wealthy continue for another decade would saddle middle class Americans, [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Revalorizing the Trades
For the 10th-anniversary issue of The Chronicle Review, we asked scholars and illustrators to answer this question: What will be the defining idea of the coming decade, and why? Camille Paglia Vanishing of jobs will plague the rest of this decade and more. Meaningful employment is no longer guaranteed to dutiful, studious members of the [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Skidding Toward Fall
This economy has a destination for sure, but it’s not in the direction where all eyes are trained in moist hopefulness: that glimmering horizon of longed-for growth. You will not get that kind of growth – the kind that increases the overall wealth of the organism in question. A few people will make more money than they did before, but overall we are in an epic contraction. More people and organizations will go broke than will thrive. It will seem very unfair.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )What Chief Executives Really Want
A survey from IBM’s Institute for Business Value shows that CEOs value one leadership competency above all others. Can you guess what it is?
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Axion 2010: “The Truth Tellers Conference”
Several local government administrations have contacted CAFR1 to discuss implementation of the TRF in their local government (City and County). Also a Candidate for governor of one of the largest states in the country may run on the platform of the TRF to eliminate all taxation in that state. CAFR1′s talk at the conference will release this important information at that time and why it is now being done.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Waning risk appetite and travel turbulence hit crude
A sharp correction in commodity markets sent oil down $2 a barrel on Monday morning, as risk appetite waned in the wake of the charges brought against Goldman Sachs and the continued disruption to flights across Europe sparked concerns of a dip in fuel demand.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Easy to Avoid Paying Income Tax
Joel S. Hirschhorn Would you choose being wealthy and paying income tax or making little enough to escape income tax? Americans have a far greater chance of being in the latter group. Sometimes there are statistics that you really need to meditate on for awhile. They open the door to critical thinking about American society. [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Japan economy at risk of ‘bankruptcy’
Analysts have warned that Japan may go bankrupt next year with a public debt figure larger than that of any other industrialized nation.
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