An excuse for slashing entitlements
Opinion: An excuse for slashing entitlements Matt Stoller August 9, 2011 06:37 AM EDT Politico.com ~~~ With all the talk of Standard...
The Meaning of the British Riots
Painting by Anthony Freda: www.AnthonyFreda.com Corruption At The Top Leads To Lawlessness By The People I’ve repeatedly noted that...
StartUps: NYC vs SF
Via Good, we get this insane graphic comparing start up costs in NYC versus San Francisco: > Click for full grapghic Full graphic...
Romney 2012 – “Corporations Are People”
Hilarious! Mitt Romney’s historic statement of corporate personhood makes him this generation’s civil rights champion. The...
GMO’s Jeremy Grantham in Sunday NYT Magazine
One of the more interesting things you will read this weekend is the Sunday NYT Magazine’s spread on legendary investor Jeremy...
Why the wild stock ride?
Why the wild stock ride? Barry Ritholtz Washington Post: August 6 ~~~ Here is last week’s WaPo column: Here we go again. The...
Death of a DragonFly
Paul Kroeker: The last moments of a Dragonfly’s life captured on film. I did not hold this insect captive, it was just laying like...
Cuban on Investing: Diversification Is for Idiots
Entrepreneur Mark Cuban sits down with the Journal’s Alan Murray and weighs in on the fluctuating market. Cuban is investing in...
The Beginning of the Endgame
The Beginning of the Endgame By John Mauldin August 12, 2011 ~~~ The Big Bang Moment Bang, Indeed! “It’s the Economy, Dummkopf!”...
The Octopus & the Coconut
Sounds like an Aesop Fable: Veined Octopus, Amphioctopus marginatus, showing sophisticated tool use behaviour. Footage shot by Dr Julian...