Andrew Tobias asks if we can finally put the tax argument to bed:

Is the reason you’re not investing in stocks these days (a) the prospect of having to pay 15% capital gains tax?  Or (b) the fear of further losses?  (Well, or – c – that you don’t have any money?)
Is the reason you don’t [...]

Posted April 9, 2009 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Politics & Controversy. Tags: Andrew Tobias, argument, economy, taxes. Be the first one.

NPR covered it like an eclipse or astronomic curiosity, and did little to question the claimed energy saving benefits. But, as Michael Downing asks in Spring Forward, how can something understood by so few be done by so many? And why go through this twice annual madness?
Supposedly, we subject ourselves to the rule of time [...]

Posted March 12, 2007 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Politics & Controversy, Technology. Tags: conservation, daylight saving time, daylight savings time, dst, economy, energy, oil, statistics. 8 Comments.

Conservatives hate Freakonomics, that book by economist Steven D. Levitt and journalist Stephen J. Dubner that takes on more than a few sticky issues that most people don’t normally consider to be within the purview of economics. (See also the Freakonomics blog).
Publisher’s Weekly notes:
There isn’t really a grand theory of everything here, except perhaps the [...]

Posted October 18, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Books, Movies, Music, Politics & Controversy. Tags: abortion, bill bennett, conservative, conservatives, criticism, economist, economy, freakonomics, harry shearer, levitt, racisim, steven d levitt, steven levitt, theory, william bennett, william j bennett. One Comment.

So long as I’m talking about change I want to bring attention to some commentaries by Chris Farrell in Marketplace Money. On September 16th he noted that hurricane Katrina (Rita hadn’t hit yet) “ripped the veil off poverty in America” and wondered aloud weather the voting public would continue to support the Republican obsession with [...]

Posted October 11, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Politics & Controversy. Tags: albert hirschman, chris farrell, commentary, economic priorities, economic priority, economy, governement, government responsibility, marketplace, marketplace money, political priorities, political priority, poverty, poverty in america, private interest, public purpose, robert reich, straight story, tax policy. One Comment.