Breakfast Links

Posted by Jeff Carter
on May 13th, 2012

What Mom taught me about entrepreneurship.

California is in the red, by a lot.

Wisconsin isn’t. It was but Governor Walker changed that. They are in a surplus. Next step, cut taxes and more spending.

What is really important though is how they account for the net present value of future liabilities. Surplus or deficit isn’t too critical, because it’s just accounting anyway. Illinois is Broke has a good illustration of how the state of Illinois (and many city governments) used shoddy judgements to make their statements look better than they actually were. For your personal finances, just use Smarteys.

Paul Ryan educates Georgetown on helping the poor. Sounds like they need a lot of education there. The one law student didn’t know where to find cheap birth control.

Who is the VCs enemy? Themselves.

Yup, this sums it all up. A series of infamous firsts.

Bankers prepare for the drachma. This is what I wrote a year ago.

Ooh, Obama imploding. His headquarters is in a different kind of bubble.

They found a WW2 fighter in the African desert.

New methods of drug dealing.

10 dumb urban legends.

The future of transportation?

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