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 …
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 …
Not their fathers’ economics
Students seeking real-world answers are questioning long-held tenets.
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-weiner-youth-revolt-economics-20120411,0,6994951.story
Finally, a breath of fresh air! Economics has been subject to way too many simplifying assumptions (see here for some thoughts) for way too long. It is …
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 …