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Liberals and Tax Cheating
March 24th, 2009The blog, Audacious Epigone, has a very interesting post describing a study showing that “Liberals do not consider cheating on taxes to be as morally problematic as conservatives do. This presents an obvious moral quandary of its own, as, putatively less surprisingly, liberals are more likely than conservatives are to favor greater amounts of taxation […]
Quote of the Week
March 10th, 2009In one instance the regulators asked her about her role in preparing the Stanford International Bank quarterly report. She replied it was her job to edit the report, checking the report’s pie charts “to make sure they equal 100.”
Pie chart comment
Dog Sledding
March 9th, 2009Great pictures from Boston.com on dog sledding. Check it out:
Dog sledding
Animation of USAir 1549
March 2nd, 2009The following is an amazing real time recreation with the voices of air controllers and USAir pilots. I am even more in awe of Captain Sullenberger now than I was before. You realize how calm he was and how fast he had to react. All we hear are his conversations with air traffic controllers and […]
Niall Ferguson’s solution
March 2nd, 2009There is a great oped piece from Niall Ferguson on how best to combat the financial crisis and all I can say is that I absolutely agree with his analysis. Here are two snippets:
The harsh reality that is being repressed is this: the Western world is suffering a crisis of excessive indebtedness. Many governments are […]
Take a Chance on “Taking Chance”
March 1st, 2009I highly recommend that everyone who has HBO, watch their latest movie, Taking Chance, starring Kevin Bacon. It is one of the most moving and emotional movies I have seen in a long time. The movie is about an officer in the Marines escorting a Marine’s remains (Chance Phelps) home after he died in […]
Dogs and Cats Living Together, Mass Hysteria!
February 23rd, 2009At times like this when the financial world seems to be ending, I think its important to have a bit of humor. I just got an email from someone saying to prepare for the end of the world. It reminded me of this scene from Ghostbusters:
Tycoon’s beauty contest for mistresses ends tragically
February 17th, 2009File this story under Bizarre (this one deserves the capital “B”). This credit crisis continues to unearth ridiculous behavior.
Beauty contest for mistresses
What is Gold telling us?
February 12th, 2009Great blog post on gold by Mish’s Global Economic Trend Analysis (mouthful, right?):
You can’t fool gold
Undercover at Wal-Mart
February 8th, 2009A senior writer for Wired went undercover as an entry level employee at Wal-Mart and wrote about his experience in the NY Post.
I especially liked this part:
On average, anyone walking into Wal-Mart is likely to spend more than $200,000 at the store during the rest of his life. Therefore, any clueless employee who alienates that […]