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...talk about your online popularity. You have, like, 850,000 followers on Twitter. This always makes me laugh. When I meet real celebrities who kind of know me, they can't wrap their heads around that...
...Your book is very optimistic - you talk a lot in the book about how if you want it hard enough and if you work hard enough, the tools now exist for you to be able to build your own brand. I don't sell you the 40-hour workweek. It's going to be a lot of work. But do what you love. So if you love the Dallas Cowboys or you love gardening or you love tae kwon do, all I'm asking you to do is allocate [the time spent] consuming that content to providing...
...frowned upon as the sources of the global recession. Instead we hear praise of China's "state capitalism" - the notion that semi-command economics can work better than Economic Man. And what of America's liberal political ideology, which used to inspire suppressed peoples everywhere? I recently gave a talk to about 30 students from China at a journalism class at a Hong Kong university. Riots had erupted in China's Xinjiang province between the indigenous Uighurs and Han Chinese immigrants only days before. The subject quickly turned to Western press coverage of the upheaval, which tended to portray...
Then come the tax breaks. The stimulus bill approved in February included an $8,000 tax credit for first-time home buyers - at a cost of about $14 billion for the year. That's set to expire, but there's talk in Congress of extending or even expanding it. A much bigger deal is the income tax deduction for mortgage interest paid - which has been with us as long as there's been an income tax - at a cost estimated by the Congressional Joint Committee on Taxation at $80 billion this year. The deduction for property taxes costs an additional...
...Chairman Ben Bernanke tried to talk up the dollar last week by declaring that the central bank would tighten monetary policy in order to avert inflation. But he also emphasized that the Fed is committed to keeping interest rates at near zero to help the battered economy. In the tug of war between those two antithetical positions, it's virtually certain that near-zero rates will win for the foreseeable future...