Jared would be proud of me. Whenever I grab lunch to eat in my office, I head over to Subway for a six-inch Veggie Delite with provolone. Just 280 calories. Yum. Depending on my mood and workload, I usually gobble down my Subway lunch between 12:15 and 1:00pm. On Monday, though, I started eating at [...]
Archive for November, 2011
The Behavioral Economics of Leftover Pizza
Posted in Life, Microeconomics, tagged Behavioral Economics, Humor, Life on November 30, 2011 | 10 Comments »
Flat-tax Simplicity with a Progressive Twist
Posted in Budget, Politics, Taxes on November 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
My latest column for the Christian Science Monitor. One of the perils of writing a monthly column is the multi-week lag between writing and publication. Rick Perry and Herman Cain were near the top of GOP contenders when I wrote this. Today? Not so much. But the ideas are still worth analysis. And Newt Gingrich [...]
Our Ever-Changing Tax Code
Posted in Budget, Politics, tagged Taxes on November 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Graphic by Wesley Bedrosian as part of the Wall Street Journal’s weekend article on tax planning. After all, who doesn’t want to spend Thanksgiving weekend thinking about taxes?
Sign Your Tax Return in Blue Ink
Posted in Life, tagged Taxes on November 22, 2011 | 5 Comments »
Esther and I got a scary piece of mail yesterday. The fine folks at the Internal Revenue Service sent our entire tax return back to us. Minus the accompanying check, of course. A cover sheet said we had failed to sign the return, which we filed on a timely basis in October. That sounds easy to fix, except for [...]
A Great Cover of “Rolling in the Deep”
Posted in Life, tagged Music on November 20, 2011 | 1 Comment »
In case you missed it, here’s ten-year old Angie Vazquez belting out Adele’s “Rolling in the Deep,” accompanied by her brothers Gustavo (13) and Abelardo (15): ht: Heidi Moore P.S. I’ll get back to econ blogging soon. Super busy lately.
More on Apple’s Skill at Operations
Posted in Business, Technology, tagged Apple on November 7, 2011 | 1 Comment »
A few weeks ago, I discussed a Quora thread explaining “how Apple sends technology back from the future.” The gist is that Apple is phenomenally good at managing its supply chain, particularly for innovative technologies that haven’t hit the market yet. Bloomberg BusinessWeek expounds on that theme in its latest issue, beginning with the story [...]
The Rising Risk of Social Unrest
Posted in Budget, International, tagged Budget, Employment, jobs, unemployment on November 5, 2011 | 4 Comments »
The risk of social unrest is on the rise around much of the world, according to polling data summarized in the International Labour Organization’s latest World of Work Report (ht: Tortsen Slok). The ILO estimates that the risk of unrest has risen the most in advanced economies over the past five years, followed by the Middle [...]
A Particularly Enjoyable Murmuration
Posted in Uncategorized on November 4, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Via Kottke, an especially fun video of starlings flocking: More here.
Child Mortality and Development, the Video
Posted in Data, History, International, tagged Data, Development on November 2, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Courtesy of Bill Gates, here’s Hans Rosling talking child mortality and development. (Gates emphasizes foreign aid in his description, but that seems secondary compared to development generally.) Hans Rosling Breaks Down the Impact of Foreign Aid from bgC3 on Vimeo.
What Should We Do With Higher Gas Tax Revenues?
Posted in Budget, Energy, Environment, tagged Budget, Gasoline, Infrastructure, Oil, Taxes on November 1, 2011 | 5 Comments »
Most of the economics bloggers I know favor higher gasoline taxes. Not immediately, of course, given our economic weakness. But eventually because of environmental and national security concerns. As noted yesterday, Tim Kane of the Kauffman Foundation does a quarterly survey of economics bloggers. This time around, Tim included a question from me about the [...]
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