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May
22

Why Europe Can’t Compete Globally

Because their is no Europe! It’s popular to compare each country in Europe to states in the US, and
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May
13

“Honey, Obama’s on the Phone for You”

Expect to get a call the week before the election: > A new study shows that phone calls to encourage
May
11

Powerpoint Doesn’t Kill People…

…bad presenters do. PowerPoint gets [http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/nytimes_1203] a lot [http://www.slideshare.net/thecroaker/death-by-powerpoint]
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May
10

Privacy is a Thing of the Past

“Three men can keep if a secret, if two are dead” — Benjamin Franklin Privacy has always been difficult to achieve,
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May
09

Financial Innovation in a Sentence

Article on the good and the bad of financial innovation — the cliffs notes version is the one sentence below: >
Apr
26

Snooze Button in Reverse

When you hit a road block, you can either stop and come back to your task later or power through
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Apr
25

The Simple Things in Life

I was reading an interview of the always entertaining Anthony Bourdain. When asked about the appeal of the simple foods,
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Apr
25

Michael Lewis & Andrew Ross Sorkin on SEC v. Goldman

You don’t have to take just my word on it [../2010/04/goldmans-gonna-get-off/]. Charlie Rose interviews Michael Lewis, David
Apr
23

The best sentence I read today

“Humans have some sort of hardwired sense of rightness, and stealing something that’s too much of a hassle to
Apr
19

Goldman’s Gonna Get Off

The government’s argument is that Goldman co-created a pool of investments designed to fail with a notable investor (John
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