November 2011
How Brooklyn Turned Into Hipster Paradise →
“For every complex question, there is a simple answer — and it’s...”
– H.L. Mencken
Somewhere out there a peanut farmer is smiling...
US News: President Obama’s presidential job approval index has finally passed below Jimmy Carter’s…
And I thought lotteries were a tax on people who...
3 Asset Managers Win $254 Million Powerball Lottery
“Neither Fair, Nor Reasonable, Nor In Public Interest”
– Judge Jed Rakoff after rejecting the SEC’s proposed $285 million MBS fraud settlement with CitiGroup
“A country is bust when the markets decide.”
– Albert Edwards, Societe Generale Cross Asset Research
Germany attempted to sell €6 billion 10 Year bunds. The offering was a complete and utter disaster, one of Germany’s worst bond sales since the launch of the euro.
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Why the Nerdiest Way to Think About #OWS Is So... →
“For a profession whose product is new knowledge, science seems strangely...”
– Matt Ridley: Is That Scientific Heretic a Genius—or a Loon?
Mine is bigger than yours....The economics of very... →
I'm glad I waited until marriage...
A new study suggests that sex during adolescence can have lasting negative effects on the body and mood well into adulthood…
BBJ's @KyleAlspach names the 10 stealthy Boston... →
Why Amazon is willing to lose on each Kindle Fire... →
Occupy Wall St. no more...
Cops Clear Wall Street protest park; scores busted…
Is mobile gaming the new frontier? Some say it... →
The obvious question is...Why the %$#@ (no pun...
Sex With Animals Can Lead To Penis Cancer: Study
“In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice,...”
– Yogi Berra
Love this...Yak and Yeti -- Cuisine of India and... →
“Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to...”
– Sigmund Freud
Indeed they do… Eurozone bail-out fund has to resort to buying its own debt
Is what Zynga is doing with stock options pretty... →
“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It...”
– Albert Einstein
The King of Human Error. Nobel Prize-winning... →
Nassim "Black Swan" Taleb wants to end bonuses for... →
A river of red runs through it...
Fannie Mae taps $7.8 bln from Treasury, loss widens
Fannie Mae , the biggest source of money for U.S. home loans, on Tuesday said it needed a further $7.8 billion in federal aid to stay afloat as a shaky housing market widened its third-quarter loss to $5.1 billion. Fannie Mae has now drawn $112.6 billion in bailout funds from the Treasury Department since being seized by the government in...
Where the new meritocracy went wrong... →
Is the patent system FUBAR? →
