Gotta Pay Your Tax (Collectors)

The Telegraph in the U.K. has a story with a twist about the effects of high tax rates (note ’50p’ means 50%, not 50 pence):

The amount of income tax paid fell sharply last month in the first formal indication that the new 50p higher rate is not raising the expected amount of revenue.

The [...]

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Today’s “Better than Expected” ISM Manufacturing Data Is Actually Consistent With An Evolving Industrial Recession

Not to make too much of one data point, but one of the good things about ISM data is that unlike tomorrow’s employment report, it is final.  Whatever numbers the Labor Department reports tomorrow will be revised and re-revised.  

Stock traders were mildly encouraged by today’s report from the Institute for Supply Management about [...]

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A Country Whose Name Begins With “United” Actually Intends to Fund a Social Program With New Taxes

If you thought that politics was always so dysfunctional that unfunded government spending is just the way it now is, comes news from the U.K.’s Telegraph in an article titled “Nick Clegg indicates tax rise to pay for 1 billion pound youth unemployment scheme.”  A 1 billion pound plan to tackle high youth unemployment will apparently [...]

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