Breakfast Links

Posted by Jeff Carter
on August 14th, 2012

Happy 19th Birthday to my daughter. I assume the square will be rocking this evening.

Yesterday there was a big to-do about Paul Ryan possibly (breathless) insider trading bank stocks. It turns out the facts are not the same as the breathless hyperbole. More damaging in my opinion is the fact he voted for TARP. I wouldn’t have done that. For any elected official, I would make it mandatory that all liquid assets allocated to securities go into a blind trust for the duration of their term. Here is some more on the good and the bad.

Twitter picked the Republican VP

460k lost to a Bitcoin hacker. Quick, tell the CFTC.

“I understood there would be no math in the Presidency”-Saturday Night Live debate sketch in 1975. Now a reality.

This is really cool. Smart medical devices. Another cool medical device is made by SonarMed.

Groupon($GRPN) still tanking. Uff Da. Google($GOOG) must be glad they didn’t buy them.

Have you seen this movie?

I am going to a breakfast this morning with Mayor Bloomberg of NYC. Maybe I will bring a Big Gulp.

Recipe for breakfast cookies.

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