Archive for April, 2011

  • Favors
    Posted by on April 30th, 2011 at 4:14 pm, Comments: 0

    Social networks are useful for different things. Youtube is really a social network, and can do some things that Facebook, LinkedIn and others cannot. There [...]

  • Food Inflation and Ethanol; Silently Killing Businesses and Consumers
    Posted by on April 30th, 2011 at 9:46 am, Comments: 0

    If you read one thing this weekend, read this interview with Larry Pope of Smithfield Foods. He talks about how the government’s ethanol policy that [...]

  • Saturday Breakfast Links
    Posted by on April 30th, 2011 at 9:13 am, Comments: 0

    Was out sort of late last night with a friend. Went to the Erie Cafe for steak. Then up early to do the Mike and [...]

  • Do We Need Stock Exchanges?
    Posted by on April 29th, 2011 at 9:44 am, Comments: 0

    Andy Kessler wrote a provocative editorial today in the WSJ.  It talked about how technology has made the stock exchange meaningless.  He makes some great [...]

  • Friday Breakfast Links
    Posted by on April 29th, 2011 at 7:11 am, Comments: 0

    Image is from Lou Mitchell’s. Chicaga people know about Lou’s. Today is the royal wedding. Think she has to sign a pre-nup?  If you want [...]

  • How to Tell When a Company is Mismanaged
    Posted by on April 28th, 2011 at 9:09 pm, Comments: 0

    Analysts grind through financial data, other people look at stock price, other people look at trends.  How do you know when a company is being [...]

  • Inflation, Silver and Gold, Oil, Meat and Grain and TVs
    Posted by on April 28th, 2011 at 10:28 am, Comments: 0

    Traditionally, the Federal Reserve is always behind the curve when it comes to monetary policy. When inflationary pressures are building, the Fed fails to recognize [...]

  • Breakfast Links
    Posted by on April 28th, 2011 at 8:20 am, Comments: 0

    President Obama attacks speculators.  His health apparatus tries to replace a CEO.  The NLRB tries to tell Boeing how to run its business. Wayne Allen Root [...]

  • The Bernank
    Posted by on April 27th, 2011 at 5:39 pm, Comments: 0

    Can you feel the earth moving? History was made today. The first press conference by a Fed chair after a meeting. We didn’t have to [...]

  • Natural Gas vs Diesel
    Posted by on April 27th, 2011 at 10:35 am, Comments: 0

    T. Boone Pickens is back on television lobbying for natural gas.  Last time oil prices were over $100/barrel, he was on television lobbying for wind. [...]

  • Breakfast Links
    Posted by on April 27th, 2011 at 1:13 am, Comments: 0

    It’s a massacre in Syria.  In its infinite wisdom, the UN is going to give them a seat on the human rights council! Syria has [...]

  • Greatest Play in Baseball History
    Posted by on April 26th, 2011 at 12:03 pm, Comments: 0

    A tip of the hat to Breitbart for pointing this out today. On this date in baseball history, Chicago Cub Rick Monday made the greatest [...]

  • Planting Weather
    Posted by on April 26th, 2011 at 7:50 am, Comments: 0

    The weather for planting has been pretty poor this year. The fields are wet, and they are cold. La Nina has had an effect. When [...]

  • Breakfast Links
    Posted by on April 26th, 2011 at 6:21 am, Comments: 0

    I am on Fox Business this morning at 8:30am CT. Josh Brown provided a sign that Eugene Fama is correct. Gary Becker on how government [...]

  • Chicago Gas Prices Highest In US
    Posted by on April 25th, 2011 at 11:07 pm, Comments: 0

    We get the honor of having the highest gas prices in the nation here in Chicago.  Good thing the spring has been warm because of [...]

  • Seven Microeconomic Steps to End Public Unions
    Posted by on April 25th, 2011 at 8:24 am, Comments: 0

    One thing about public unions is that they are seemingly immune to the effects of economics.  They operate like a monopolist, but are actually a [...]

  • Breakfast Links
    Posted by on April 25th, 2011 at 7:06 am, Comments: 0

    Chicago Black Hawks force a game 7.  Down 3-0, with their backs up against it.  They have a chance.  They backed into the NHL playoffs. [...]

  • Students Defaulting on Loans
    Posted by on April 24th, 2011 at 9:57 am, Comments: 0

    Thinking of taking out a massive loan to major in some soft major at an elite institution? You might think again. Tough job market-even though [...]

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