bfwebster on December 9th, 2009

Companies are born, live, thrive, dwindle, and then often die or are absorbed by other firms. Being 56 years old, I’ve seen a lot of that first-hand and have worked for several firms that no longer exist. Over at 24/7 Wall Street, Jon Ogg and Douglas McIntyre have picked ten brands that they think will [...]

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bfwebster on October 20th, 2009

Big Government offers this chart of unemployment trends in post-WW II recessions.  Nice to see that the massive deficit spending on ’stimulus’ has paid off so well.  ..bruce w..

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bfwebster on October 5th, 2009

. . . and things are already getting interesting.
ITEM: Obama throws the Dalai Lama and the entire country of Tibet under the bus (emphasis mine):
In an attempt to gain favor with China, the United States pressured Tibetan representatives to postpone a meeting between the Dalai Lama and President Obama until after Obama’s summit with his [...]

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bfwebster on October 2nd, 2009

Don Surber zooms in on the relevant portion of reality vs. hope-and-change. Obama and the Democratic Congress sold us on a horrific “stimulus” package with the threat of 9.0 % unemployment if they failed to act. They acted, and unemployment is now approaching 10% and may hit 12% next year. In the meantime, the national [...]

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bfwebster on April 29th, 2009

MORNING LINKS
ITEM: Speaking of swine flu hysteria, this may be a good time to invest in pork belly futures – there may be a shortage soon.
ITEM: Yet another way in which Western Europeans are looking for the US to help them financially.
ITEM: Here’s a slideshow of items from the Michael Jackson Neverland Ranch auction. Some [...]

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bfwebster on April 28th, 2009

MORNING LINKS (Yeah, didn’t feel like doing overnight links last night)
ITEM: The photo above says more than a thousand op-eds on how unseriously the Obama Administration is taking the threat of terrorism. While the White House is scrambling to distance Obama himself from this idiotic stunt, a lot of people had to sign off of [...]

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bfwebster on April 14th, 2009

[Here are Wednesday's links as well]
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ITEM: USA Today has an outstanding article debunking the various myths about the Columbine shooters who killed just over a dozen of their fellow students 10 years ago:
They weren’t goths or loners.
The two teenagers who killed 13 people and themselves at suburban Denver’s Columbine High School 10 years ago [...]

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bfwebster on April 11th, 2009

OVERNIGHT LINKS
ITEM: Why newspapers are dying — note the lead headline for the online version of the Denver Post:
ITEM: Speaking of animals, this story of a dead whale on the beach at Del Mar brings up memories of one of Dave Barry’s funniest columns and the video that inspired it.
ITEM: Y’know, articles like this one [...]

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bfwebster on April 8th, 2009

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BREAKING NEWS: The American crew on that ship hijacked by Somali pirates has retaken control of the ship. A reminder to the world: don’t screw with Americans.
ITEM: Two books you really, really should read are Fooled by Randomness and The Black Swan, both by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. These are outstanding works that deal with [...]

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bfwebster on April 6th, 2009

MORNING LINKS — get ‘em while they’re fresh
ITEM:  “Should war be a game?“ is the fatuous subhead of the day, from an article talking about a new videogame recreating the battle for Fallujah (Iraq). The reporter shows no awareness that wargames have been around for centuries and that most of them do indeed “use actual [...]

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