I wrote last year about how my BFF Rush Limbaugh doesn’t like taxes:
Personal income taxes for the uhh…upper middle class and the rich are about to skyrocket 31 percent for all New Yorkers making more than $500,000 a year. So I’ll tell you what I’m gonna do, I’m gonna look for an alternative studio somewhere [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Follow Ups'
Follow Up: (Rush And) I Told You Not To Mess With Taxes…
July 14th, 2010 · 12 Comments
Buyer Beware · Follow Ups · Fun With Math · Policy
Tags: Buyer Beware · Follow Ups · Fun With Math · Policy
Go Get Your Free Slurpee Today…Or Don’t, If You’re Smart?
July 11th, 2010 · 10 Comments
Behavioral Econ · Decision Making · Follow Ups · From The Vault
Reader Sean Writes:
In the spirit of 711 day where all the loyal patrons are lavished with a free slurpee, I recall past events at other stores that utilized the same gimmick. Particularly, I remember a smoothie shop that had recently opened a month or so before offering a free smoothie promotional for the entire day. [...]
Tags: Behavioral Econ · Decision Making · Follow Ups · From The Vault
Follow Up: More On Incentives From Dan Pink, Now With Cartoons…
June 6th, 2010 · 3 Comments
Behavioral Econ · Follow Ups · Incentives
Economic Principle #4: People respond to incentives. Hmmm…if you think about it, the part that gets left out of that statement is HOW people respond to incentives. I wrote before about Dan Pink’s TED talk on behavioral responses to incentives in a number of different contexts. A brief summary: Incentives (specifically [...]
Tags: Behavioral Econ · Follow Ups · Incentives
Follow Up: New And Creative Pricing Strategies From Those Wacky Airlines…
May 24th, 2010 · 17 Comments
Buyer Beware · Econ 101 · Follow Ups · Markets
I wrote last week about the wonderful world of airline baggage fees. I even put a version of it up on the Huffington Post. Little did I know that I was going to get new information on how airlines like to make their pricing confusing.
Apparently in addition to adding in separate fees for [...]
Tags: Buyer Beware · Econ 101 · Follow Ups · Markets
Follow Up: Goldman Sachs And Greece, Facebook Style…
March 30th, 2010 · 10 Comments
Finance · Follow Ups
I wrote a few weeks ago about Goldman Sachs’ involvement in the problems that are plaguing Greece. This seems to be a confusing topic for everyone, both because it involves a lot of finance mumbo-jumbo and also because journalists have a vested interest in making their stories more interesting by taking somewhat of a [...]
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