Mike McCready

In Spain the government collects value added tax (VAT) on exchanges between retailers and consumers. It’s similar to the sales tax in that it’s an indirect tax that is collected from someone other than the person who actually bears the cost of the tax (namely the seller rather than the consumer). This is gripping prose [...]

José Luís Rodriguez Zapatero, Spain’s recently re-elected Prime Minister has announced that his cabinet will, for the first time in history, be made up of more women than men. Of the 17 cabinet members nine are women. Zapatero is a self-proclaimed feminist and his previous cabinet sported an equal number of both men and women. [...]

To read this post on The Huffington Post click here. I’ve been having a number of conversations with Democrat friends who are avidly supporting Obama’s race for the nomination. I respect that and have said before that while I support Hillary Clinton I have nothing but praise for Senator Obama and will support him if [...]

To read this post on The Huffington Post click here. Last night, Eve and I were fortunate to attend the Elton John concert / Hillary Clinton fund-raiser at Radio City Music Hall in Manhattan (never a lack of things to do here). We’ve been supporting Hillary Clinton’s tumultuous race for the nomination and in spite [...]

The Washington Post has a story today that was all the buzz within the music industry yesterday and one that has been the topic of heated debate and controversy on various industry email groups I belong to. It’s about Warner Music Group hiring Jim Griffin, (a well known industry analyst and leading thinker) to lead [...]

This clip is from October 8, 2007 and I meant to post it back then but filed it and just now got back to it. It’s quite poignant and insightful as well as funny. Check it out:

A couple of days ago John Kao was on the Colbert Report to discuss his book called “Innovation Nation” in which he makes the point that America is losing its edge in innovation, education and global competitiveness. This is the same point I made in a blog post a couple of weeks ago. You can [...]

It looks like we’re making a little bit of headway in our education system. According to the Education Department reading and math scores among third and forth graders have made improvements over the last couple of years. In 2005 only 36% of fourth graders were proficient in math and only 31% were proficient in reading. [...]

I know I’m not the only one who’s noticed but this new season of America’s original reality TV show, “OJ” comes at a really bad time for the country. We have far too much going on to get addicted to this again. We need the national ADHD-effected attention span focused on what we think of [...]

To read this post of The Huffington Post click here. It’s been 6 years since 9-11 and the question everyone is asking is, “are we safer”? All the news channels are filling air time with the multi sides of that issue. What we can all agree upon is that 9-11 changed our country. For as [...]