Yesterday, Max did a post about Rep. Ed Garner’s introduction of his capital-gains bill, and, in the post, he linked to an allbusiness.com reprint of a Democrat-Gazette article, writing: Rep. Ed Garner, the Republican sales and income tax deadbeat from…
Category: Economics
AR-House Dist. 41: Aww, Widdle Eddie Got His Feewings Hurt
I was organizing my Twitter feed today when I noticed that I was not following Rep. Ed Garner (R-41). I figured this was an oversight on my part, so I hit “Follow.” Then I get this: While this is funny…
Adventures In Idiocy: The Worst Letter To The Editor, November 11, 2010
The dumb letters to the editor in yesterday’s Democrat-Gazette were just your run-of-the-mill, garden-variety type, and none really warranted a post. You knew THAT couldn’t last, however. Now when men like Clyde Holloway of Searcy were out there to opine…
Econ 101: Arkansas In Good Shape Nationally
According to at least one economist, Arkansas is positioned nationally to be at the forefront of recession recovery. Chief Economist for the Institute for Economic Advancement Michael Pakko said Wednesday that Arkansas personal income, housing prices, taxable sales and employment…
Preview: Week of 11/7/10
My hope is to put up a weekly preview on Sunday or Monday as a tentative roadmap/teaser. Will I do it consistently? Who knows. (For a point of reference, consider that I still want to do the End of Day…
AR-02: Greenberg Hearts Timmy!
Considering that Paul Greenberg has been Timmy! Griffin’s most consistent fluffer for months now, it was not the least bit surprising to see that the Democrat-Gazette endorsed Timmy! yesterday. Nearly twice the length of most of the D-G’s endorsements 1,…
GOP: Not Willing To Compromise
In case you were worried that post-partisan politics might be on the horizon, don’t be. GOP says compromise not on the agenda if they retake the House. “Look, there will be no compromise on stopping runaway spending, deficits and debt.…
AR-Sec. State: But then I thought, "When am I gonna make it back to Haiti?"
Remember March 2005? “Candy Shop” was climbing the Billboard charts, people had overly optimistic hopes for the John Travolta and Uma Thurman movie “Be Cool,” and we were mere weeks away from watching the University of North Carolina overcome the…
Econ 101: DeLong on Britain
Brad DeLong takes issue with the new policies of British Conservatives. Their shame would not be quite so great if they had a theory about what elements of spending will grow to offset their 9% of GDP planned fiscal contraction.…
End-of-Day Miscellany
There are millions of links in the naked city. These are the ones we didn’t hit today. Roby Brock notes that outgoing AR-02 congressman Vic Snyder will shave his mustache if donors raise $50,000 for Joyce Elliott by Sunday. There’s…