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If you would have told me two weeks ago that Gerry Adams and Rev. Ian Paisley would be in the same room together (even if the tables had to be rearranged so that they wouldn’t sit next to one another as NPR reported) I never would have believed it. However, it appears that even in [...]

For the most part, I’m fairly liberal in my beliefs. There are a couple of places where I diverge from the liberal dogma and one of those is the taxation of corporations. Every once in a while, you will hear a howl of protests from the left about how {insert evil corporation here} is not [...]

Any time a clip from a hockey game is still broadcast seven years later (and probably still would be if ESPN still had the rights) you know it was a hell of a game. The clip is, of course, Patrick Roy and Mike Vernon (two goalies) squaring off in the center circle.
As a Wings fan, [...]

My post Blackstone IPO? Not So Fast was included in two carnivals this week.
The first is the Carnival of the Capitalists, a Carnival focused on everything having to do with capitalism. This week’s Carnival was hosted by Political Calculations, a blog that I quickly added to my RSS feeder.
The second was in the Carnival of [...]

The big news in the financial markets this morning is the proposed IPO of Blackstone, the uber-private equity firm. Many market analysts are drooling over getting a look at Blackstone’s operations, which have essentially minted cash for the firm in the past few years. Media outlets have reported that the average Blackstone analyst has generated [...]

Reuters has a story that Sirius and XM have made a federal filing stating that the merged entity will allow more a la carte options, meaning that customers could subscribe to a lower price point than the current $12.95/mo each company charges.
After Mr. Karmazin’s switcharoo earlier, this actually worries me. The great part about it [...]

There are certain truths in the universe. The Cubs will suck. The Sun rises in the East. Google has a stark white home page. Well, Cubs fans have a little hope this year.
The Google personalized home page has a little color to it now. You can apply several set themes to your personalized homepage. Not [...]

My article You, Me, and the AMT is up at the Carnival of Taxes today. The Carnival is hosted by the Keeper of the Carnival, Don’t Mess with Taxes.
She’s presented the Carnival as an article per day through April 15th. Go read today’s article “Taxes and the Three Martini Lunch“. Bookmark the site and read [...]

I am not the perfect employee and don’t claim to be. I do work hard and get my work done. If I do run late, which does happen when my daughter doesn’t cooperate or traffic gets snarled, I make doubly sure that I get down to work as soon as I get in and I [...]