One of the most interesting effects I expect to see over time from the Heller decision is a change in how politicians have to respond to crime. Classically, more liberal politicians faced crime by calling for gun control. Now that that comes off the table, it will force the conversation to be much more about criminals and actual causes of crime. This article on project exile from the WSJ may be a start of that dawning realization.

Many of my friends and casual acquaintances have only a foggy idea of what I do all day at the office. My previous company's offering was a bit easier to explain.

That said, this article I wrote for E-Commerce Times gives a pretty good flavor of the types of problems we're helping high margin internet merchants solve.

And if it didn't come clearly through - I don't think we're in much of a recession when GDP growth remains north of 1%. I'm more worried about inflation.

Hat tip to Sanjay Sarathy and the folks at Chen PR for their assistance pulling this together.

Warren Meyer points out a post on the Q&O blog that shows something very interesting. It appears that the inflation rate for the bottom decile of incomes is significantly lower than the inflation rate faced by the top decile. This makes sense if one thinks about the mix of consumption of goods versus services as a percentage of income. At the top decile, the percentage of income spent on services is much higher and therefor much less tied to the deflationary pressures of globalization on manufactured goods and food.

When one takes those inflation differences into account it looks like the supposed increase in income inequality isn't there if the incomes are adjusted for the decile specific inflation rate.