Archive for September, 2011

  • Capitalism Gives Back
    Posted by on September 30th, 2011 at 9:31 am, Comments: 0

    This is one of the best articles I have read in a long time. Andy Kessler eloquently dismantles the arguments from the left. As you [...]

  • Buybacks are Keynesian
    Posted by on September 30th, 2011 at 6:22 am, Comments: 0

    Just a quick thought. Sometimes at the University of Chicago they teach you concepts that turn normal thought on its ear. One of the first [...]

  • Friday Breakfast Links
    Posted by on September 29th, 2011 at 10:34 pm, Comments: 0

    There are a lot of big games Saturday. I will be at this one. Stop by the College of Business tent and we will have [...]

  • Environmental Dust Up in Nebraska
    Posted by on September 29th, 2011 at 6:30 pm, Comments: 0

    No one talks about Nebraska much unless they are talking about Mr. “Tax them, but not me” Buffett or the Cornhusker football team. There is [...]

  • Those Anti-Immigration Heartless Racist Republicans
    Posted by on September 29th, 2011 at 9:15 am, Comments: 0

    Rick Perry is catching a lot of heat for his statements on educating immigrants in Texas. Rick Santorum, and then Mitt Romney, went after him [...]

  • What I Want To Be When I Grow Up
    Posted by on September 29th, 2011 at 8:00 am, Comments: 0

    When you are a little kid in grade school, your teacher always assigns you an essay about what you want to be when you grow [...]

  • Thursday Breakfast Links
    Posted by on September 29th, 2011 at 5:06 am, Comments: 0

    If you were lucky, you got to watch Walter Payton play football every week. But there was more to him than just being a football [...]

  • Roadmap to Success or Failure
    Posted by on September 28th, 2011 at 11:07 am, Comments: 0

    If you want to save the world, support entrepreneurs. They will figure things out. In April 2007, a group of people started Hyde Park Angels. [...]

  • The Boston Calamity-Not
    Posted by on September 28th, 2011 at 9:14 am, Comments: 0

    Read the sports section, turn on ESPN and you are inundated with the soap opera starring the Boston Red Sox collapse. Pardon this Cubs fan [...]

  • Wednesday Breakfast Links
    Posted by on September 28th, 2011 at 5:10 am, Comments: 0

    Reasons to disband the CBC. I am for repealing Obamacare, and every Presidential candidate ought to say that. But it doesn’t mean all is well [...]

  • Check the box, lose 10 Billion
    Posted by on September 27th, 2011 at 11:02 am, Comments: 0

    The government tried to reduce paperwork on tax filings. By simply checking a box, multinational companies can avoid taxes. By making sure their pencils are [...]

  • Government Brought to You By Liberals/Progressives
    Posted by on September 27th, 2011 at 9:17 am, Comments: 0

    When you make your bed, you lie in it. People from Illinois and Chicago are finding that out right now. In the last election, Republicans [...]

  • Tuesday Breakfast Links
    Posted by on September 27th, 2011 at 4:21 am, Comments: 0

    Boomers versus Gen Xers. Who got what. End farm subsidies. Finally some liberals are getting it. Free trade brings Jobs Jobs Jobs. Dems are holding [...]

  • Something to Think About/ Government Employees and Spending
    Posted by on September 26th, 2011 at 8:59 pm, Comments: 0

    I am glad the internet exists if only to listen to Milton Friedman make sense. This video blows a hole in the less government employee [...]

  • Joyce, Queen of The Mountain
    Posted by on September 26th, 2011 at 1:39 pm, Comments: 0

    I read the book Joyce, Queen of the Mountain. It’s not a long book, and it is pretty easy reading. Joyce has a totally different [...]

  • Day One Trader
    Posted by on September 26th, 2011 at 1:13 pm, Comments: 0

    Day one trader is a trading book. But, it’s not a trading book that gives you strategy about how to approach a market. It’s a [...]

  • Are Commodities an Asset Class?
    Posted by on September 26th, 2011 at 8:47 am, Comments: 0

    Gold ($GLD, $GC_F) is off over $11 today after getting routed last week. Silver ($SLV, $SI_F) is also moving lower. When metals move, generally silver [...]

  • It’s A Republic Stupid
    Posted by on September 26th, 2011 at 8:18 am, Comments: 0

    This is an interesting video. Russia has a democracy. Putin is going to be President, again. The US doesn’t have a democracy. It has a [...]