Bag of Randomness

  • If you like videos of cute pets, I recommend PetTube. It’s sorta like America’s Funniest Videos Pet Edition.
  • If you have a microphone, this website allows you to draw a picture using nothing but your voice.
  • Regarding the Stimulus Package, I’m on board with the Republicans and their concerns with where some of that money is being spent, funds need to go where there will be an immediate impact on job growth, but I’m not on board with the amount of tax cuts they want.
  • I can’t tell if this video is suppose to be funny or serious, but either way, this old lady does fancy tech talk to help her church.
  • Right after Springsteen’s halftime performance, the item “how old is bruce springsteen” was highly searched on The Google.
  • And this is how many people that visited my Brenda Warner post on Super Sunday.
  • And I found this interesting stat from Peter King’s MMQB: John Elway played in five Super Bowls. Joe Montana played in four. Kurt Warner has played in three — and has thrown for more yards than both Montana and Elway.
  • There are only 220 more days until the next regular season NFL game.  Can it hurry up and get here.
  • I recently saw an HBO special on Al Michaels.  It turns out the only reason why he was selected to broadcast the Miracle on Ice game was that he was the only announcer of the entire ABC Olympic crew to have announced a hockey game.  And here’s the kicker, before that Lake Placid game he only announced one other hockey game.
  • The other day at work we all spontaneously sang cheesy love songs of the 80’s, starting with “I’m All Out of Love” by Air Supply followed by some Chicago.
  • I find the new logo on Sarah Palin’s new PAC website a bit funny.  I know she’s trying to showcase Alaska, but it looks like she’s putting a big ol’ hole in the middle of America.
  • I decided to revamp the personal finance course that I teach and decided to see what kind of resources are out on the Internets.  I was surprised to know that the online version of Quicken is now free.
  • After I made that Punky Brewster post, one of my readers informed me that Soleil Moon Frye is the owner of The Little Seed.
  • This worker saved his boss’ live and then was fired.  Link
  • Have you ever visited BuddyHolly.com?  I was a little surprised.
  • Two thoughts regarding today’s random theme show intro.  I always wondered why he locked the car after her got out of it, and I was impressed someone that age could double-dutch so well.
  • Grace
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2 Responses to Bag of Randomness

  1. Nathan S. says:

    A finance professor that is against tax cuts!? *facepalm*

  2. ToledoRay says:

    Numerous government and independent studies agree that corporate tax rate cuts provide relatively little “bang-for-the-buck” as stimulus. The Congressional Budget Office, for example, has concluded that a corporate rate cut “is not a particularly cost-effective method of stimulating business spending.” The Congressional Research Service has found that in terms of stimulating aggregate demand, the “effect of corporate rate cuts is likely small.” And Mark Zandi, chief economist of Moody’s Economy.com, has rated a corporate tax rate cut as one of the least effective of all tax and spending options in stimulating the economy, estimating that it would generate only 30 cents in economic demand for every dollar spent on the tax cut.

    Nevertheless, some policymakers and business groups — many of them longstanding proponents of corporate tax cuts regardless of economic conditions — now advocate cutting corporate tax rates as a stimulus measure. There is a serious debate to be had about whether cutting corporate rates, especially if done in tandem with measures to close corporate tax loopholes, would strengthen the economy over the long run. But corporate rate cuts simply are not credible as short-term economic stimulus in a recession.

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