Breakfast Links

Posted by Jeff Carter
on October 12th, 2012

VP debate last night. I thought the moderator didn’t have the gravitas to handle the debate. Biden started extremely strong. Ryan finished strong, and classy by thanking Biden. Made Biden look small at the end, especially given the smirking and condescending attitude Biden displayed when Ryan was speaking. In addition, Biden cut him off several times and today people are talking about Biden’s demeanor, not the points. That’s not good for the Obama ticket. I think Biden won on points. Ryan got too wonky. But, no votes were changed, no positions were changed, and momentum for Romney wasn’t stopped. By the way, is abortion still a Presidential issue? Isn’t the fiscal cliff more important? Snap polls disagree with my assessment, they think Ryan won.

Can the tech sector reform partisan politics? I say no way. Government isn’t ready for a color blind, need blind, merit based system.

Nice article on the truth of corporate taxation. American companies don’t save on taxes by moving overseas, they save on labor costs. They get killed when they sell goods outside the US, and try to bring that revenue back.

FedEx ($FDX) founder gambled his last $5000 to stop firm from going bankrupt.

Market maker in wedding planning. Do they have HFT?

This isn’t going to instill confidence in government statistics. “one large state didn’t report additional quarterly figures as expected, accounting for a substantial part of the decrease.”–Huh? Did they forget to report on unemployment too?

The resurgence of the enterprise start up. Hey, you mean they want companies with revenue??

Action to open up London’s markets.

Fall guy for the Chicago Teachers Strike. He’ll get another government job, or a cush job in a corporation.

Greece’s biggest company leaves.

Co-working space in Columbia. (Insert one liner here)

Do you have to tweet to use twitter?

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