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 …
Category: Psychology
Antifragility
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). …
Another one bites the dust…
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 …
Will Democratic success result in the extinction of our species?
How Republicans persuaded women to re-elect President Obama
For the activists of Emily’s List, working to improve women’s political representation, Republicans like Todd Akin were a gift
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/nov/15/republicans-persuaded-women-reelect-obama
Yes of course my headline is a bit of hyperbole, but I …
Visualization
Red state, blue state
Resizing geographic areas by population gives more accurate view of 2012 election
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/346315/title/Red_state%2C_blue_state
My wife was talking about this the other day: how looking at the typical US map of ‘red’ vs ‘blue’ states from the …
Its almost over!
Election Day Is Finally Here: Tonight Is Going to Suck No Matter What
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/election-day-is-finally-here-tonight-is-going-to-suck-no-matter-what-20121106
As usual, Matt is entertaining and has an excellent point. Can any rational person (are there any rational people left?) think that either candidate is going …
Election myths, things aren’t as bad as they seem
OK, I am a sucker and presuming these are right and not just pulled out of the author’s ass, I am an ass…
8 Election Myths You Probably Believe
http://www.cracked.com/article_20134_8-election-myths-you-probably-believe.html
#8. Myth: It’s All Pointless, Since Candidates Don’t Keep Their …
Idiot paranoia
Still ‘paranoid’ after all these years
http://www.cnn.com/2012/11/04/politics/paranoid-style-politics-hofstadter/index.html?hpt=hp_c2
Since I have often spoken about the looming apocalypse and the ‘conspiracy‘ of the rich to keep the rest poor, I figure that this article is quite a good fit here. …
Evidence that the economy shrinks as the rich get richer
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: “…
“Nobel” prize in economics
Actually, it is the “Swedish Central Bank Prize in Economic Sciences” that was created “in memory” of Alfred Nobel…
The Nobel Prize in Economics? There Is No Nobel Prize in Economics
http://exiledonline.com/the-nobel-prize-in-economics-there-is-no-nobel-prize-in-economics/
Any of this sound familiar?
…Promoters of central