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Congress' second youngest representative, Harold Ford Jr. (D-Tenn.), spoke to a bemused crowd at the Arco Forum last night, imploring audience members to put a punch back in the political process...
Much has been made of the coincident slide in tech shares and tech earnings, a brutal one-two punch that has left some stocks down 80%--but no less expensive than during the bubble. How can that be? Stocks are most often valued relative to future earnings. If earnings prospects fall faster than a stock's price, the stock gets more expensive no matter how low it goes...
...barely has time to recover before the Frenchman delivers the second half of his one-two punch with “Naive Song.” Upbeat and uplifting, the track creates a brand new world of escapist fantasies. Mirwais’ voice, delivering banal yet somehow appropriate lyrics, is filtered through a vocoder to encapsulate an otherworldly effect. Sounding at times like the soundtrack to a car commercial, “Naive Song” nevertheless manages to successfully fuse electronic sensibilities with a more conventional pop motif. Unfortunately, it’s all downhill from here, and though...
...restrictions, especially since a San Francisco court recently declared the auction service could not be held responsible for pirated or bootlegged music sold on its site (Napster should be so lucky). Its name has entered the global lexicon: "I bet you'll find that on eBay" has become the punch line to a thousand jokes. For the media, eBay is a bottomless treasure trove of news items - from the boy who tried to sell his soul, to the convicted killer who capitalized on his rapidly evaporating minutes of fame by trading in his hair follicles and calluses. You could argue...
George W. Bush has argued that his $1.6 trillion tax-cut plan would help America dodge a recession. But because its most generous provisions don't kick in until after 2003, the President's proposal can't provide much countercyclical punch before then. Democrats, who oppose the measure as too large and too favorable to the rich, several weeks ago called for $60 billion to $80 billion in tax cuts this year, many of them targeted at middle- and low-income groups. The idea: offer people some money now so they'll spend and give the economy a boost...