Need a new Piggy Bank?
Apparently, a lot of people do. The sale of home safes is up 50% over the last four weeks.Time to buy stock in a post hole digger?
Somebody loves Joe the Plumber
Business is flush for Joe the Plumber – the one in Amarillo, Texas not the one made famous by John McCain. So far, the offers to purchase is web site,…
Bar Stool Economics: Explaining our Tax System
There’s a parable that’s been kicking around for years that I ran across recently and wanted to share with you. I haven’t seen it in years but it’s an insightful parody of our tax system with a golden nugget of truth at its core.
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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 way we pay our taxes, it would go something like this: (more…)
Playboy . . . Laxatives . . . Candy?
The NY Times today published an article surveying the multitude of indexes that have been proffered as measures of recessionary activity. More laxatives are sold - you can conjure why…
No sauce on my sandwich. 911?
The SF Chron carried a brief notice today summarizing an AP story about a Florida incident. It’s quoted below:
“The sauce for a spicy Italian sandwich was apparently a must have for one Florida man. The man, Reginald Peterson, called 911 twice after a sandwich shop left off the sauce. (more…)