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  • Why People Are Running From Detroit
    Posted by on May 8th, 2013 at 11:54 am, Comments: 0

    Detroit has a lot of problems.  No secret there.  There are lots of suggestions as to how to fix those problems. Reasonable people might disagree [...]


  • Chicago: Hotbed of Employment Innovation
    Posted by on May 8th, 2013 at 6:00 am, Comments: 0

    One of the first things I thought of when we started Hyde Park Angels was not to mimic Silicon Valley.  No other area can be [...]


  • Breakfast Links
    Posted by on May 8th, 2013 at 4:10 am, Comments: 0

    Up early.  It’s my birthday.  Harry Truman was born on this day.  It was also V-E Day in Europe today back in 1945.  I have [...]


  • Legislating Against Education Innovation in Illinois
    Posted by on May 7th, 2013 at 9:22 am, Comments: 0

    There is no doubt among rational minds that the nation has a broken educational system.  People I speak with from both sides of the aisle [...]


  • TV Guests Always Talk Their Book
    Posted by on May 6th, 2013 at 8:54 am, Comments: 0

    Watching the festival of capitalism over the past few days on CNBC has been interesting.  It’s interesting because I truly think that Charlie Munger and [...]


  • Can You Wait? Or Are You Frozen by Indecision?
    Posted by on May 6th, 2013 at 7:25 am, Comments: 0

    Waiting is brutal for me.  I hate to wait.  Lately, it feels like all I am doing is waiting.  Waiting for this to happen.  Waiting [...]


  • Breakfast Links
    Posted by on May 6th, 2013 at 5:00 am, Comments: 0

    Standing guard for the sturgeon. Most downloaded 25 free apps. How can companies adapt to new social media expectations? Break up the Euro, says founder. [...]


  • Entrepreneurship and The Prairie Fire
    Posted by on May 5th, 2013 at 6:10 am, Comments: 0

    In the midwest, we know about prairie fires.  They burn miles and miles of grassland.  They are actually good for the environment.  Fire burns off [...]


  • Some Knowledge Bombs From Charlie Munger
    Posted by on May 4th, 2013 at 9:31 am, Comments: 0

    It’s the festival of capitalism in Omaha, Nebraska.  Charlie Munger sits for an interview.  It’s remarkable how many parallels there are between the type of [...]


  • Unemployment, Co-Working and The Santelli Exchange
    Posted by on May 3rd, 2013 at 2:42 pm, Comments: 0

    Was on CNBC today.  Rick Santelli had me on his show today to talk about employment, the economy and we talked briefly about the future [...]


  • Woulda Shoulda Coulda
    Posted by on May 3rd, 2013 at 8:48 am, Comments: 0

    Do you ever have woulda shoulda coulda moments?  Trades that you should have made?  Trades you made you wished that you didn’t?  Deals you passed [...]


  • Entrepreneurial Hammers in Search of Nails
    Posted by on May 2nd, 2013 at 7:51 am, Comments: 0

    Lots of startup activity here in the midwest.  Pretty cool.  It’s nice to see it happen because a few scant years ago there wasn’t much [...]


  • Breakfast Links.
    Posted by on May 2nd, 2013 at 5:00 am, Comments: 0

    Why everyone should learn to drive a stick. American craft beer invading….Germany. The basics of crowdfunding. Punitive tolls for patent trolls. Remember when Fed meetings [...]


  • May Day-or Pigford Day
    Posted by on May 1st, 2013 at 12:04 pm, Comments: 0

    Today is May Day.  Worldwide, it’s when communists/socialists and unions march around the world. In Europe, they are protesting austerity.  Getting rid of free money [...]


  • HFT and Exploiting a Loophole
    Posted by on May 1st, 2013 at 8:33 am, Comments: 0

    The WSJ had an article on how HFT traders exploit a loop hole at the $CME.  Some shrug it off as if it’s no big [...]


  • Breakfast Links
    Posted by on May 1st, 2013 at 8:04 am, Comments: 0

    Rogoff and Reinhardt:  Krugman does a victory dance. What do you think about paid sick leave? A key issue in the monetary debate. With more [...]


  • On This Day in 1943-Operation Mincemeat
    Posted by on April 30th, 2013 at 12:24 pm, Comments: 0

    One of the most daring and best executed espionage plots came to fruition.  Operation Mincemeat. It paved the way for the invasion of Sicily. A [...]