Ramachandran on your mind
Vilayanur Ramachandran tells us what brain damage can reveal about the connection between celebral tissue and the mind, using three...
Uh-Oh: Is Shiller Defending the Failures of Economists?
Was it the hammers or the carpenters? That is the question alluded to this morning by Yale Professor Robert Shiller in the NYT. Shiller...
Sell in May………………?
Sell in May………………? David R. Kotok April 30, 2011 www.cumber.com > Sell in May and go away? Is it a cliché or is this the...
Global Carbon “Footprint” by Nation
Kinda interesting depiction of the relative size of each nation’s carbon emissions: > > from Stanford Kay Studios hat tip...
Pulitzer Podcast: Bernstein & Eisinger on Wall Street,...
ProPublica won the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for its series, “The Wall Street Money Machine.” Its lead reporters, Jake...
The Endgame Headwinds
The Endgame Headwinds By John Mauldin April 29, 2011 ~~~ The Endgame Headwinds If Something Can’t Happen… GDP = C + I + G + Net...
The Destruction of Economic Facts
Fascinating discussion in BusinessWeek from renowned Peruvian economist Hernando de Soto. As we have discussed previously (here and...
Has the Fed Decided to Fight Inflation Instead of Unemployment?
Washington’s Blog strives to provide real-time, well-researched and actionable information. George – the head writer at...
Succinct Summation of Week’s Events (4.29.11)
Succinct summation of week’s events: Positives: 1) Bernanke in his press conference implicitly says, “party on wayne, party...