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Bracketed Tax: A Guide.
Today I learned that not many people (even those around me who study business) actually know how much they get taxed, or how the Australian taxation system works. I’ve heard statements like “if you earn over $80,000, you’ll get taxed 40%, but under $80,000 you only get taxed 30%”.
If this was correct, a person [...]
In: business · Tagged with: brackets, economics, excel, tax
There’s no such thing as a… wait, what?
New York businessmen, as far as I can tell, are a special bunch. They love big words, big gestures and big paychecks. Unfortunately, in these tough economic times even the New Yorkers find their incomes reduced and as a result their lavish culinary expenditure has been curbed.
Only through extreme cleverness and guile can these sharply-dressed [...]
In: business · Tagged with: economics, expense a steak, marketing, new york
A future where cheap, malware and prime-time TV-ad-riddled devices flood the market?
In fine infotainment form, cracked.com is running an educational article about Apple.
Since I’m a very much a PC man, I am happy to provide Cracked an infinitesimally small improvement to their PageRank scores by linking to said article right here.
In: business, technology · Tagged with: apple, cracked, hate
Plotting Marginal Cost Curves in Excel 2007: A Guide.
What follows here is a simple, illustrated guide to creating marginal curves in Excel 2007. As any economist (even those in-training, like myself) know, marginal curves have to be plotted halfway between two discrete points on the x-axis. It’s simpler than it sounds. Click through for the illustrated instructions!
In: business · Tagged with: 2007, cost curve, economics, excel, how to, marginal