Quick!  Ask Me a Question!

This is a light traffic place to mention it, so I’ll take the risk.  It might elicit something and it saves me the work of creating a mailing list of some of the CotC entrants.

As you know, I run Carnival of the Capitalists.  As of this week’s edition, it’s becoming more restrictive and has moved to a new home site, Bizosphere.com.

James Pethokoukis of U.S. News & World Report blogs at Capital Commerce, covering mainly the nexus of politics with economics and business.

Coinciding with the January 26 Carnival of the Capitalists, we are having a CotC Q&A with James, in which CotC participants ask about economics or business issues and James answers on his U.S. News blog, with links to CotC and the blogs of those submitting the questions.  It’s a nice cross-promotion and very cool.

I e-mailed most of the previous CotC hosts, for starters, and then included it to the CotC mailing list.  This resulted in two (really good) submissions.  That seems rather slim, but I haven’t gotten around to trying to shake more out of people who have entered CotC over the course of time.

So I was thinking about entering one more myself, to round it out.  That has me trying to figure out what and how to phrase it.

That also made me think of posting about it here, to see if perhaps today someone else out there would send me a relevant question, CotC participant or not.  E-mail jay at bizosphere dot com or any of my regular addresses, and include your blog URL if you have one.

Things I was thinking of were the fallout from the ownership of congress by the consumer credit industry, where things are going with the popping of the housing bubble, the ongoing consequences of Sarbanes-Oxley and whether there might be backpedalling from it, that sort of thing.  Questions other people posed involve internet regulation and whether any of the candidates will or are likely to court small business.

Any other thoughts, or more specific angles on the three items I had in mind?  I’d love to have at least three items in the Q&A.  Which may or may not become a recurring event.  If it does, I’ll pointedly e-mail a master list of past CotC entrants.  It’s just that I have to create such a list first.  Which I should do anyway, to make sure people are fully and promptly aware of the new rules and location.

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