Breakfast Links

Posted by Jeff Carter
on July 29th, 2012

Should the futures industry have an insurance fund?

Atlas Shrugs in the election.

Scorched earth in the midwest. Not as bad as 1934, more like 1988. But it’s pretty bad.

Remember “death panels”? Advocates for Obamacare said they wouldn’t exist, but they do other places.

Here is a place to cut defense spending. We are spending an extra $1.8 billion on biofuels.

Were Apple’s ($AAPL) earnings a warning to the smartphone industry?

How the stock market works.

Summer sale.

An empirical analysis of fiscal activism.

What would Milton Friedman do now?

Futures were stronger last week, but livestock cash markets were lower. ($HE_F, $LE_F)

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