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Boycott Overstock.com

December 14, 2009

Whatever little patience I had with Patrick Byrne, and his friends at DeepCapture.com,  is now officially exhausted.
As noted last week (DeepCapture.com Scraping Facebook Friends), this group found the Facebook friends and relatives of any journalist, critic, fund manager or blogger who criticized Overstock or DC and published them.
Big mistake.
As Gary Weiss discovered, the entire operation [...]

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Random Readings

December 11, 2009

Some of the things that will be keeping me busy this weekend:
• Federal subsidy may change muni bond market for good (Economist)
• The Year in Ideas issue for 2009 (NYT Magazine)
• Being Wrong Vs. Being Early (Todd harrison)
• Hypocrisy in Senate Grilling of Bernanke? (Paul Kasriel, Northern Trust) see also Real Time Economics
• Uh oh: [...]

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Fox News Makes the Best. Pie Chart. Ever.

November 27, 2009

Fair & Balanced — just not mathematically competent:
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Hat tip Flowing Data
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Update: Here is the Video (Nov 23)

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Friday Linkfest

November 13, 2009

Some reading for a Friday afternoon:
• Is Gold a six thousand year-old bubble? (FT)
• Market Ignorance is Bliss (The Street.com)
• The Real Danger of ‘One Big Regulator’ (WSJ) What if those in control don’t believe in oversight?
• The ‘Real’ Unemployment Rate (Market Talk)
• Corporate insiders betting on the rally continuing (Marketwatch)
• As Shipping Slows, [...]

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Wednesday Reading

November 11, 2009

Now that I am back at my desk, here are some quick reads:
• Chanos Condemns ‘Monstrous Idea’ That Banks Love (Bloomberg)
• Under Attack, Fed Chief Studies Politics (NYT)
• Rosenberg: U.S. unemployment rate headed for 12.0-13.0% (Credit WriteDowns)
• Attention Lloyd Blankfein: The Public Purpose of Banking (Marshall Auerback, New Deal 2.0)
• How the middle class are shoplifting [...]

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