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Tag Archives: New York
Wall Street's Recovery — I begrudge them, but I'm glad
So life’s not fair, we knew that. Droves of working class folks and hopeful college grads still hanker for elusive jobs. Many retirement accounts are still in the tank. The climate’s still changing, Deepwater Horizon is still gushing, most of … Continue reading
Goldman defends itself — or at least, tries to
Apparently, the big New York Times piece on the relationship between Goldman and AIG (okay, I’m self-serving — I’ll link you to my blog piece on it) has really struck a cord at Goldman. It has posted an item-by-item response … Continue reading
Traffic data: If we paid for it, why can't we have it?
We’ve all been so busy decrying the government for forking our money over to banks and such, that the Traffic Department’s boneheaded contract with Traffic.com has gone all but unnoticed. it should be vilified. But the decade-old agreement that the … Continue reading
The beverage industry is, well, all wet!
Go cruising through the papers today, and you’ll find that the soda folks are still waffling on whether soda qualifies for a sin tax and whether bottled water should carry the same deposit that soda does. Soda companies trying to deny … Continue reading
Posted in business, Economy, food, Health care
Tagged Bottled water, deposit, New York, Soft drink, Tap water, tax
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sure, let the poor folks replenish the coffers
First, Washington floats a plan to tax employer-paid health insurance, a proposal that could cut into the already-strained budgets — not of the Congressfolk, but of the ones who clean their offices. And now New York has decided it’s a … Continue reading
new bottom line 