1. The U.K. government is learning about the economic lesson that "if you tax something, you get less of it."  Following an increase in the top marginal income tax rate to 50%, tax revenues from high-income taxpayers are falling, and are not going up, as the Treasury somehow expected by ignoring the economic lesson that "people respon .. more ..

The world is going to hell in a handbasket, as my dad used to say. Or is it? Consider the overall travel experience, which I write about every day, and which my readers experience every day. It’s easy to assume that companies are getting more aggressive about pushing their ridiculous fees,...

"Plan UK’s campaign, which highlights the plight of the world’s poorest girls, launches a groundbreaking interactive ad on a bus stop in Oxford Street on February 22. The advertisement uses facial recognition software with an HD camera to determine whether a man or woman is standing in front of the screen, and shows different content accordingly."

After dropping to 45% a few days ago, Romney's current Intrade odds to win the Michigan primary are at about 68%, compared to 35% odds for Santorum. 

MashableTech -- "When a twentysomething’s budget is tight, her smartphone is far from the first expense to go, suggests a new study from Nielsen. The survey of 20,000 U.S. mobile customers found that smartphone ownership skews toward the young and the wealthy — ex .. more ..

The Billion Prices Project @ MIT just updated its daily online price index through the end of January 2012, and the annual inflation rates from that index are displayed in the graph .. more ..

Here's another episode in the "Our Lawyers Interpret EU 261 Differently" drama that has been playing itself out on this site since the controversial European passenger-rights law passed in 2004.