The Liberal Conspiracy has interesting article on the drug decriminalisation in Portugal. Two highlights for me. The opening paragraph: The right predicted Bad Things: Drug use would explode, tourists would travel from far and wide to get high on the streets of Lisbon, law and order would collapse, and people would start riding around in […]
These are real investment bankers (who I may or may not know…). Laughed my ass off when this arrived in my inbox this morning.
Apparently Red Hat, a vendor of a commercial linux distribution, has been doing well during the recession. This makes sense intuitively, people are looking for ways to cut costs due to the economic climate, and giving Microsoft less money seams to be a good way to go about it. This reminds me of a classic […]
As a brief follow up to my previous post saying I’m glad that the government intends to align the top tax rates, this article I just read illustrates why I think it is stupid having different top tax rates. I particularily liked the reference to “dopey politicians” 🙂
Reading this article saying that in New Zealand as the economy is going down university enrolments are going up reminded me of a cartoon Matt emailed me last year:) Hat tip: www.phdcomics.com
I just read an article on stuff where Peter Dunne has said the government is committed to aligning personal, company and tax rates in the medium term. I think this is great news, this quote sums it up for me: The differences “provides scope for people to use various entities to structure their tax affairs […]