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Bar Stool Economics

Bar Stool Economics

By Chris Selland on July 17, 2010

My friend Ted Owens sent this to me – although there is some dispute as to the origin of the story, it’s still pretty good so thought it worth sharing… Suppose that every day, ten men go out for beer and the bill for all ten comes to $100. If they paid their bill the […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged Beer, economics, Humor, Tax | 3 Responses

Keynesian Porn

Keynesian Porn

By Jeff Nolan on May 27, 2010

Read this and thought “right on brother”. it ain’t exactly the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Every American who pays taxes is invested in your EV at this point. Self-righteousness gets you nowhere when the playing field ain’t level. Just sayin… [From Quote Of The Day: Don’t Make Me Pull This Oversubsidized Niche […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged cleantech, economy, EV, gm, gmac, Great Depression, Money supply, subsidies, Tax

Wealth Gap

Wealth Gap

By Jeff Nolan on May 11, 2010

My friend Meryl sent me this and asked for comment… rather than send her 40 tweets I thought a blog post was in order. The basic thesis of the Business Insider piece is that the gap between rich and poor has widened. By the way, the world isn’t flat either… Here’s my problem with this […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Economic growth, economy, Inflation, Productivity, Progressive tax, Tax, unemployment, Wealth gap

More Of Naomi’s Killer Scenarios: Retroactive Processing

More Of Naomi’s Killer Scenarios: Retroactive Processing

By Naomi Bloom on April 27, 2010

Once upon a time, the concept of retroactive payroll processing was invented to handle the all too often situation of a personnel action (that’s what they were called when I was young) that was presented to “the system” after the date on which is should have taken effect.  Without a retroactive processing capability in payroll, […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged "Killer" HRMDS Scenarios, accounting, enterprise software, Financial services, Health care, Health insurance, HRM Software, Preferred Behaviors, Tax

People Putting an Extra 50k Miles Or More On Their Cars

People Putting an Extra 50k Miles Or More On Their Cars

By Jeff Nolan on February 19, 2010

Read this an it immediately resonated with me. According to a study by Auto MD, which is owned by the US Auto Parts Network, Inc. (i.e. people who have a vested interest in making parts for used cars) 77% of people are, on average, planning on driving their current cars at least 50,000 miles more […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged California, car buying, car purchase, Economic, Laffer Curve, mileage, Sales tax, Tax

UK tax department: Bizarre IT spending incentives

UK tax department: Bizarre IT spending incentives

By Michael Krigsman on February 5, 2010

Phil Pavitt, CIO for the UK tax department, recently spoke out against huge IT projects. Some of his comments are extraordinary.

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged CIO issues, government, Government projects, HM Revenue and Customs, IT issues, Outsourcing, Politics, Project failures, Tax, Taxation, Vendor relationships

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