Okay, this video is funny, informative, and hard hitting. https://youtu.be/PMO-_woxVpE But this new way of gathering petition signatures is brilliant. Please do what I did and go to Justify Their Rates (justifyrates.org), get this petition (pdf), sign it and send it in. Stop the thieving California heath insurance companies now! Enough already! Thanks, Calitics for [...]
Tag: economics
People of America – your tax dollars at work
Keeping the internet safe so Hollywood can make more money by making more crap. "The U.S. government recently shut down file-sharing giant Megaupload. The shut down of the site caused millions of its users and fans lonely days and broken hearts with their streaming media hunger's unexpected cut-off supply. "Now according to a report, Carpathia [...]
CEO Compensation Bubble
Like many things, compensating CEOs and managers on the success of the stock seemed like a good idea, but it doesn't take into account performance and luck and is inherently unfair, so it has to go. Unfortunately, it rewards the people who make the rules, so it might take awhile to get rid of it. [...]
Death, Taxes, Facebook, y’know …
"WHEN Facebook goes public later this year, Mark Zuckerberg plans to exercise stock options worth $5 billion of the $28 billion that his ownership stake will be worth. The $5 billion he will receive upon exercising those options will be treated as salary, and Mr. Zuckerberg will have a tax bill of more than $2 [...]
Welcome, Europe, to the 3rd World Debt Model
Understanding the European Debt Crisis because it matters: https://youtu.be/oAR0VRLRGHE Punk Economics, Lesson 1, by David McWilliams This will make you feel all puffed up and glad to be an American...for about five minutes. (via, oh, I can't remember, EconoSpeak, I think)
The Mayerson SOP: section 161, subpart a-56.26 and .27
161.a-56 Life is uncertain. 161.a-56.26 Be prepared. 161.a-56.27 Always eat dessert first. And I'm as pleased as I am shocked by this podcast: "Jenny talks with Tom about how married women can better prepare themselves financially for a divorce. Some of the items she discusses are keeping individual checking accounts, knowing where the money is [...]
“Dear Atlas,”
"Fucking SHRUG already. "The suspense is killing us. "We, the Ninety Nine Percent of all American citizens, who are now in OPEN REVOLT against what is no longer a democratic government answerable to the People, have been waiting for the so-called Productive Citizens, alleged Producers, much ballyhooed Wealth Creators and all around Engines of America [...]
I hate Reagan, episode 69,468 squared
If this chart doesn't make you see red, there's something wrong with you: "The following chart tells the story. It shows inflation-adjusted GDP per capita and median family income from 1947 (the earliest year for which the income data are available) to 2007. To facilitate comparison of the over-time trends, each is indexed to its [...]
If they won’t go away, they should at least cough up some dough
https://youtu.be/XI0xZI455ZI Oh, and then there's the question of paying decent taxes on ill-gotten gains and possibly doing some good in the world: Kardashian Products Made In Sweatshops With Child Labor, Radar Online, December 21, 2011 And just in time for Christmas! K'mon Kardashians, be good people. Endorse the Millionaires' Tax, stop making stuff in sweatshops, [...]
Celebrate Small Business Saturday
(And Buy Nothing Day Friday) Small Business Saturday. Not sure why AmExp is involved and all the links go to Facebook (I'll be rebooting right after I post this), just fyi. Here's my list in no particular order of favorite small businesses to buy from: Better World Books books and they support literacy organizations Escential [...]