tea-leaves

I think he's reading the "tea-leaves" NoSpin ... anticipating this tax eventually trickling down to him once the tax base shrinks and they're on to "plan B" .... read the recent article about Fed salaries now on average (in some jobs) higher than private sector.

Senate to Propose High-Earners’ Income Tax « PubliCola 2010

As tea-leaves go, these ones are relatively easy to read.

Archive 2009-08-01 2009

Many of the world's macroeconomists -- including here in the IMF -- are currently busy reading the daily tea-leaves, attempting to divine whether the sputtering recovery in the advanced economies will hold, and gradually pick up steam, or fall back into the notorious "double dip."

Hugh Bredenkamp: Making up for Lost Time: Getting Back on Track to the Millennium Development Goals 2010

Yet Stein also noted Democratic officials 'reading of the tea-leaves that gives room for optimism:

Art Levine: Labor Seeks to Mobilize Jobless, Labor Base 2010

Many of the world's macroeconomists -- including here in the IMF -- are currently busy reading the daily tea-leaves, attempting to divine whether the sputtering recovery in the advanced economies will hold, and gradually pick up steam, or fall back into the notorious "double dip."

Hugh Bredenkamp: Making up for Lost Time: Getting Back on Track to the Millennium Development Goals Hugh Bredenkamp 2010

Many of the world's macroeconomists -- including here in the IMF -- are currently busy reading the daily tea-leaves, attempting to divine whether the sputtering recovery in the advanced economies will hold, and gradually pick up steam, or fall back into the notorious "double dip."

Hugh Bredenkamp: Making up for Lost Time: Getting Back on Track to the Millennium Development Goals Hugh Bredenkamp 2010

So use your tea-leaves only for brewing, leave bird entrails alone, and keep that old Eight Ball in storage.

Tom Morris: The Decade Ahead 2010

Yet Stein also noted Democratic officials 'reading of the tea-leaves that gives room for optimism:

Art Levine: Labor Seeks to Mobilize Jobless, Labor Base 2010

And regardless of reading the Obama tea-leaves during the campaign, I daresay, everyone was surprised by this after the election.

Dems Must Step Up to Majority Governance after the Massachusetts Mess 2010

"I welcome this action because there are cowboy companies out there and also because a lot of the predictions that are being presented to the public are akin to reading tea-leaves," he said.

Clampdown on companies offering genetic disease testing 2010