Saturday Morning Breakfast Links

Posted by Jeff Carter
on July 30th, 2011

Went out to Q last night. We were supposed to go to Owen and Engine, but the power was still out in Bucktown from all the storms we have had. People in parts of Chicago think that Noah is returning. We went out for a drive to get some gelato. Couldn’t believe all the people out at bars and restaurants on Division west of the Kennedy Expressway. It was a great night in the city.

Here is a good piece on the parliamentary procedures behind the debt ceiling debate.

Nice article on the realities of GDP. GDP since Obama has taken office, and more importantly, since stimulus and Obamacare was passed has imploded. That’s another reason why we don’t have inflation, yet. ($ZT_F, $ZB_F, $ZN_F,$GE_F)

Ethanol has another life. ($BG, $ADM)

Grazing fees in Montana might double. Maybe the state should just sell the land. ($LC_F)

If I haven’t linked to this already, I should have. Nice discussion of GDP. It’s not pretty.

They are all partisan. Look at their records. Reid and Durbin are hypocrites.

Does this give the boys in DC a clue of what could happen? Was a bad week. ($SPY)

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Take a peek at gold. ($GLD). I was thinking this might be a pretty good short (but painful) and average in as the debt ceiling debate roiled. Once DC sorts it out, doesn’t it snap back?

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Except, there is this liquidity problem in Europe….

Sometimes patent law takes you to some very strange places.($KMB)

Do some of these web businesses truly have defensible barriers to entry?

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