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Best mistake ever

by MisterE on 1/10/2007 2:08:27 PM

So I recently consolidated all of my stocks into one Charles Schwab account, so that I could manage it easily. Monday, I was tooling around on the website trying to figure out its functionality, targeting Apple Computers as my stock symbol key. I was checking out the graphs and the options I had onl... Continue »

Getting Tough on Terror!

by infocats on 11/29/2006 6:59:48 AM

With a new and bold "get tough" policy aimed at North Korea over their nuclear weapons policy, the Bush administration has finally decided to throw down the gauntlet demonstrating American displeasure. The Bush administration wants North Korea's attention, so like a scolding parent it's trying to ma... Continue »

Shipping Inflation

by God's Not Done With Me Yet on 8/30/2006 10:57:53 PM

The seller with whom I completed my latest Ebay Transaction will not be getting positive feedback. The man had a Tripod that he was selling with a minimum bid of a penny and a "Buy it NOw" price of $5.99. With five minutes to go and no bids, I opted for the latter option. Of course, it wasn't as c... Continue »

Subsidizing foreign workers through stupid tax hikes

by Donovan on 8/28/2006 9:21:26 AM

The U.S. trade deficit in 2005 was between $710 billion and $726 billion. So what? For investors, all that trade deficit is irrelevant: invest in a U.S. company or in a foreign company, so long as the company is profitable, who cares? For everyone else, the trade deficit growing to such massive s... Continue »

Free-Trade: Slave labor, international bureaucracies, and the death of US textiles

by Donovan on 7/21/2006 12:25:54 AM

Whicker is infuriated by the U.S.-Oman FTA: there are some legitimate reasons to question it, and then there are illegitimate ones. Since attention spans are short, I'll skip to the illegitimate ones to get them off the table: (1) The FTA does not make the U.S., Congress, or anyone else subservie... Continue »

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PAID MATERNITY LEAVE.

by Ezra Klein on 11/20/2008 12:08:14 PM

For a long time, Australia has been harboring a secret shame: Almost alone among developed nations, they don't have a paid maternity leave policy. It's absurd. What sort of wealthy country can't guarantee its citizens paid time off to care for their newborn infant? What does such an oversight say ab... Continue »

To Work With or Against China?

by Mike Nizza on 11/20/2008 12:04:32 PM

Back to front page » By Graham Bowley China is stepping up its computer espionage attacks on the American government, on defense contractors and on businesses, according to a report by a congressional advisory panel published Wednesday. “China is stealing vast amounts of sensitive inform... Continue »

STUPIDITY AND FINANCE.

by Ezra Klein on 11/20/2008 11:19:37 AM

I don't have a lot to say about Michael Lewis's essay on the End of the Wall Street Boom, as it's one of those articles that's Too Good To Blog About. Suffice to say, it's the best, and certainly the most comprehensible, of the recent pieces written on the subject. But I did want to amplify this poi... Continue »

Paul Simon Stops By The Colbert Report

by Stereogum on 11/20/2008 10:16:30 AM

Mr. Simon continued being awesome with a stop over at Stephen Colbert's place last night. Paul was on hand to promote his new book Lyrics 1964-2008, a title which Colbert deemed utterly unpoetic (his suggestion: Word Salad Jazzmatron). Simon's stay spanned two segments. The first had Stephen ask Sim... Continue »

Bringing all the healthcare pieces together

by Steve Benen on 11/20/2008 10:04:50 AM

BRINGING ALL THE HEALTHCARE PIECES TOGETHER.... Following up on Hilzoy's overnight item, momentum for major healthcare reform in the next Congress got a little stronger yesterday, when the health insurance industry said it would support extending coverage to everyone, in... Continue »