The Fount of Useless Information
Your place for useless information that just might possibly be interesting.
DOJ Mysteriously Quits Monsanto Antitrust Investigation
http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2012/11/dojs-monsantoseed-industry-investigation-ends-thud
Funny how our government treats everything as secret now. Soon people will be going to jail (like Bradley Manning) for leaking SEC investigations. The idiotic paranoia of the top of our government …
I read an article that talked about carbon ‘reduction’ (the article isn’t really relevant to this post, so I won’t distract you with a link) and decided to climb up on my soap box for a few minutes and rant …
Unemployment benefits cost: $520 billion
http://money.cnn.com/2012/11/29/news/economy/unemployment-benefits-cost/index.html?source=cnn_bin
The headline is clearly intended to fire up conservative blowhards who are convinced that poor people are stealing their money. Note that this figure is for the entire 5 year period of the Great …
As I already admitted, I didn’t do any research to see if the management bore a substantial part of the responsibility for the problems Hostess is/was having. Perhaps I should have, as this article presents a pretty damning picture against …
Learning to Love Volatility
In a world that constantly throws big, unexpected events our way, we must learn to benefit from disorder, writes Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324735104578120953311383448.html
This is a _really_ interesting article, I strongly recommend it to my reader(s). …
A friend of mine sent me an email asking to leverage my MBA education to learn about government manipulation of interest rates. I decided to go ahead and respond to him through a blog post since I figured it might …
Hostess Brands closing for good
http://money.cnn.com/2012/11/16/news/companies/hostess-closing/index.html?hpt=hp_t4
Unions are not automatically bad, just like private equity is not automatically bad. However, just like private equity (something that should be very familiar to anyone who didn’t sleep the last two years; Romney …
Phony school “reform” agenda takes a beating
The media barely noticed, but voters in three states rejected the profit-driven fraud that is education “reform”
http://www.salon.com/2012/11/13/phony_school_reform_agenda_takes_a_beating/
I have decried our education system several times, particularly with respect to the ‘educational …
Fake tech gear has infiltrated the U.S. government
http://money.cnn.com/2012/11/08/technology/security/counterfeit-tech/index.html?source=cnn_bin
What is really amazing to me is the totally unspoken story about the non-governmental costs associated with this exact same issue. Because the government has historically been required to go with …
I have babbled about how the rich actually have a negative incentive to bolster the economy; well at Jared Bernstein’s blog (I am a regular reader) he provides a graph that I think seals the case (from this post: “…