Archive for September, 2011

  • Monday Morning Breakfast Links
    Posted by on September 26th, 2011 at 5:02 am, Comments: 0

    Europe is slowing…..and currency wars are only beginning. ($6S_F, $6E_F, $USX) Europe moves to bolster bailout fund. Why not just end the euro and take [...]

  • StockTwits Presidential Candidate-Me
    Posted by on September 25th, 2011 at 11:21 am, Comments: 0

    I have been watching the Republican debates. Parts excite me, and parts don’t. I read Bill Kristol’s article, and agreed with him. I am listening [...]

  • Sunday Brunch Breakfast Links
    Posted by on September 25th, 2011 at 8:19 am, Comments: 0

    Tio of the hat to Glenn Reynolds. Religious intolerance at Vandy. Vanderbilt is trying to move up on the national rankings. Way to do that [...]

  • Out of The Closet Conservative in A Democratic City
    Posted by on September 24th, 2011 at 8:14 am, Comments: 0

    Friday morning on CNBC, Joe Kernan was teasing Jack Welch about living in NYC. Joe said, “Most of your friends are liberal.”. I empathize with [...]

  • Saturday Breakfast Links
    Posted by on September 23rd, 2011 at 10:53 am, Comments: 0

    I am on the Mike and Gina Show this morning. This has applications to high frequency trading. Inflation and Debt

  • All She Wrote
    Posted by on September 23rd, 2011 at 8:55 am, Comments: 0

    Reading through the web and listening to various pundits on TV I know it’s just a question of time. Can’t we just get it over [...]

  • Medal of Honor Recipient Dakota Meyer Foundation
    Posted by on September 23rd, 2011 at 7:41 am, Comments: 0

    This was the funny part of the interview. In another part of it, he said he needed to give back to his country, for all [...]

  • Rugby World Cup Friday Links
    Posted by on September 23rd, 2011 at 4:51 am, Comments: 0

    If you haven’t watched any of the Rugby World Cup, you should. If you don’t know the rules, here is a video explanation. Tip of [...]

  • Commentary on US FOMC Meeting
    Posted by on September 22nd, 2011 at 10:28 am, Comments: 0

  • Yet Another Market Melt Down
    Posted by on September 22nd, 2011 at 8:50 am, Comments: 0

    In what’s becoming a monthly occurrence, the market is melting down again. It seems to me a lot of bad policy decisions, combined with the [...]

  • Gridlock Isn’t Necessarily Good
    Posted by on September 22nd, 2011 at 8:15 am, Comments: 0

    I remember in the halcyon days of the Bill Clinton Presidency, many told me, “gridlock is good”. Republican controlled houses of Congress with a Democrat [...]

  • Thursday Breakfast Links
    Posted by on September 22nd, 2011 at 5:29 am, Comments: 0

    Hey, check out this study. Most innovation in small business isn’t what Obama is targeting. Shoot, ready, aim. If you haven’t checked out this site, [...]

  • Fed Does the Twist
    Posted by on September 21st, 2011 at 2:48 pm, Comments: 0

    They couldn’t leave well enough alone. There is a profound difference between men and women. When there is a problem, women want to talk about [...]

  • The Battle for Innovation
    Posted by on September 21st, 2011 at 8:22 am, Comments: 0

    How long does innovation take? Depends. Facebook started in 2004. By 2011 it was a multibillion dollar company. Apple ($AAPL) was built in a garage [...]

  • Wednesday Breakfast Links
    Posted by on September 21st, 2011 at 4:44 am, Comments: 0

    Here is a map of unemployment fraud by state. Why you shouldn’t pay for an Ivy League education. When I was a student in the [...]

  • Buffett and Taxes
    Posted by on September 20th, 2011 at 4:12 pm, Comments: 0

    Much is being made of Warren Buffett and the Obama “Buffett Tax” proposal. Buffett said he pays his taxes at a lower marginal rate than [...]

  • Privatize the USPS
    Posted by on September 20th, 2011 at 2:30 pm, Comments: 0

    What if you could do this to the US Postal Service? The US Postal Service is billions of dollars in debt. There is no way [...]

  • Tech and The Farm
    Posted by on September 20th, 2011 at 7:23 am, Comments: 0

    Crop yields are heavily dependent on the weather, but they are heavily dependent on technology too. We can’t expect to feed the world without advancement [...]