The Fount of Useless Information
Your place for useless information that just might possibly be interesting.
That my student loans are all federally backed and thus have tightly fixed interest rates…
Protesters’ new front
Americans have finally awakened to the decades-long corruption of higher education
http://www.salon.com/2012/04/23/protesters_furious_new_front/
I am very familiar with the inability to bankrupt student …
Cybersecurity bills aim to prevent ‘digital Pearl Harbor’
http://money.cnn.com/2012/04/23/technology/cybersecurity-bills/index.htm?source=cnn_bin
This is a serious conundrum and one that is difficult to resolve. Our nation’s electronic infrastructure is indeed under constant (largely successful) attack and there is no doubt in my mind …
Strike threat at Hostess could kill off Twinkies
http://money.cnn.com/2012/04/17/news/companies/twinkies-hostess-strike/index.htm?hpt=hp_t2
I had to read this twice…
… both management and the unions agree that the company is unlikely to survive a strike.
Despite knowing that going on strike will mean they …
The Real Reason for the Tragedy of the Titanic
The disaster is often seen as a tale of hubris, social stratification and capitalist excess. The truth is considerably more sobering.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304444604577337923643095442.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
Yet another document that somehow failed to get published …
A huge student loan scam
With the help of Virginia Foxx, R-N.C., for-profit colleges are massively ripping off U.S. taxpayers
http://www.salon.com/2012/04/16/a_huge_student_loan_scam/singleton/
Additional proof (as if any were needed) that the Tea Party anti-government crusade is nothing more than racist anti-feminine …
Yes, Virginia, this is Obama’s JOBS Act
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/yes-virginia-this-is-obama-s-jobs-act-20120412
I wrote a bit about this topic before: “Expanding Wall Street’s license to steal“, but Matt is, I feel, way more eloquent and certainly much better at providing links to …
There Is No Invisible Hand
http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2012/04/there_is_no_invisible_hand.html
I have read a great deal about the ‘invisible hand’ of the marketplace pushing the market toward an equilibrium and the only time I can recall believing that it had any association with reality …
Can 46 rich dudes buy an election?
http://money.cnn.com/2012/03/26/news/economy/super-pac-donors/index.htm
I suspect the answer is an unequivocal ‘yes’. Of course all Citizens United did was legitimise what was going on all along, the rich and powerful will always have an outsize impact …
Stop subsidizing soaring college costs
http://www.cnn.com/2012/03/22/opinion/bennett-college-costs/index.html?hpt=hp_bn6
It makes a huge amount of sense to me that if there is no price pressure on producers then there is no profit pressure, hence no benefit to producing something more efficient. If schools …
ACLU: Facebook password isn’t your boss’ business
http://www.cnn.com/2012/03/22/tech/social-media/facebook-password-employers/index.html?hpt=hp_t3
Proof, as if it were needed, that governments are required to exist as counterweight to the idiotic tendency of society’s elite (business owners, in this case) to abuse anything they can possibly …