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Thursday, May 23, 2013

Daily Archives: November 1, 2012

Carpe Diem

Thursday night links

Mark J. Perry | November 1, 2012, 10:16 pm

1. Peterson Institute study finds that the total cost to American consumers from higher prices resulting from tariffs on Chinese tires was $1.1 billion in 2011. The cost per job saved (a maximum of 1,200 jobs) was at least $900,000. … read more >

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Carpe Diem

Holman Jenkins: Businesses care more about their reputation with customers than they actually care about their customers

Mark J. Perry | November 1, 2012, 4:49 pm

From Holman Jenkins’ article in yesterday’s WSJ, “Hug a Price Gouger“: Hurricane Sandy not only confronted businesses with biblical helpings of wind and rain. Many had to ask themselves whether they wanted to be perceived as price gougers. The choice, … read more >

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Politics and Public Opinion, Elections

Campaign absurdities: Jeeps ‘made in China’

Claude Barfield | November 1, 2012, 2:55 pm

In this campaign, economic “truthiness” has long since disappeared. The latest evidence of this is the flap over Governor Romney’s claim on the campaign trail and in ads running in Ohio that Chrysler is planning to ship jobs to China by opening a plant to make Jeeps in that country. read more >

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Politics and Public Opinion

Has Obama failed by his own measures?

Eleanor Bartow | November 1, 2012, 2:39 pm

President Obama was once very precise about how to measure progress during a presidency. He said during his 2008 acceptance speech at the Democrats’ national convention: We Democrats have a very different measure of what constitutes progress in this country. … read more >

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Pethokoukis

Under Obama, investment taxes will be twice as high as our competitors. Maybe the Secretary of Business can look into that

James Pethokoukis | November 1, 2012, 2:17 pm

It’s somewhat well known that the United States has the highest statutory corporate tax rate in the world. It’s 39.2% (including state and local) versus an OECD weighted average of 27.8% (ex-U.S.). But what about all those tax breaks and … read more >

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Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney acknowledges the cheers of the crowd at a campaign rally in Avon Lake, Ohio, Oct. 29, 2012. REUTERS
Politics and Public Opinion, Elections

[UPDATED] Early Ohio numbers promising for Romney

Henry Olsen | November 1, 2012, 1:28 pm

Barack Obama is clearly winning the early vote in Ohio. But careful analysis of the actual numbers so far suggest very good news for Mitt Romney. read more >

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Pethokoukis

Obama’s ‘Secretary of Business’ idea is Obamanomics in a nutshell

James Pethokoukis | November 1, 2012, 1:03 pm

Incredibly discouraging: President Barack Obama signaled if he wins a second term he would appoint a Secretary of Business to oversee newly-consolidated government agencies, including the Small Business Administration, and predicted “a war” will break out within the Republican Party after the … read more >

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Politics and Public Opinion

Romney winning the Jewish vote by 16-points … in Israel

Marc Thiessen | November 1, 2012, 12:28 pm

The good news: Mitt Romney holds a 16-point lead over Barack Obama among Jewish voters. The bad news: The Jewish voters in question are in Israel. CBS News reports: If Mitt Romney was running for president against Barack Obama in … read more >

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Society and Culture, Education

When gym teachers make more than math teachers

Michael McShane | November 1, 2012, 11:52 am

The labor market value of a math teacher, that is, what they could make if they decided to do something else, is significantly higher than that of a gym teacher, who has fewer options outside of a school. Pay should reflect this. read more >

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Pethokoukis

That consumer confidence number looks great — until you look at this chart

James Pethokoukis | November 1, 2012, 11:34 am

Barclays: The Conference Board’s index of US consumer confidence rose to 72.2 in October from a downwardly revised 68.4 in September (originally 70.3), the highest reading since February 2008. While this was below our estimate and the consensus (both 73.0), … read more >

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