Catching up on my reading

I’ve finally caught up with my (short) stack of Fortune magazines. Here are some articles that I think are worth a read, as well as some non-Fortune material. (Note to self – stop subscribing to magazines that give away their content online!)

• Taxpayer, Beware! – Washington will soon be taking back a good chunk of that new tax cut. How? By using the sneakiest trap it’s got: the Alternative Minimum Tax.
• While on the subject of broken tax systems, here are some provocative articles from one of my favorite blogs, How To Save the World. Not that I necessarily agree with all of this, but these articles are thought provoking.
  • A ‘Naive’ Tax System that Makes Sense
  • Playing Dice with the World Economy
  • The Post-Consumer Economy: A Model for Our Future
  • New Collaborative Enterprises: Life After Capitalism
• Down and Out in White-Collar America – Professionals have never had a tougher time finding a job. It’s not just the economy; the rules of the game are changing.
• The Net Makes It All Easier–Including Exporting U.S. Jobs – something I posted about earlier.
• I Covet My Neighbor’s Broadband – And a response to this at VentureBlog.
• Silicon Valley Isn’t Dead; It’s Just Getting Recharged
• Mighty Amazon – A very enlightening look at the operations of Amazon.com
• Larry Ellison and the Art of War – Oracle’s brash CEO has unleashed a storm in the technology industry with his hostile bid for PeopleSoft. Here’s how things might shake out for Ellison, PeopleSoft, and industry colossus SAP.