On the Road Breakfast Links

Posted by Jeff Carter
on June 28th, 2011

Driving my daughter to school.

Here is a useful tool.

($NKE) Nike knows the market.

A libertarian post on gay marriage. I know of several, but I live in an urban area. They all have adopted children too. Live normal lives. Kids seem fine-although they are liberal-but hey, it’s the city most everyone around is pretty left wing.

The national debt is worse than you think. Of course, interest rates are low, but what is the interest rate they are carrying the future liabilities at?

Streetwise on Frank and Dodd. Costs are huge.

Should you use book value to short stocks?

Greg Mankiw tipped me off to this, college does pay. I will do a more complete post on this next week. I think there is some fuzzy math going on. As with everything in economics, “it depends”. Choice of major and school makes a difference. Subsidies too.

Blago is going to jail. Say Hi to George Ryan!

I am on the road. Stopped off in Sikeston, Arkansas last night. Lot of nice people around, although, it’s not a garden spot! Plenty of Illinois State Troopers on the road. All trying to raise revenue for a state that is broke. The Rest Areas were all closed. Why aren’t they selling them to raise revenue?

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