Archives for “Current Affairs”
Tweet “The last thing China wants to see is U.S.-style democracy in North Korea,” added congresswoman Song Sun-young, who sits on the South Korean National Assembly’s Defense Committee. “Even if they apply open-door policies to their markets, China wants North Korea to follow the Chinese style.” – (source)
Tweet “This has nothing to do with safety – 95 percent of these inspections, searches, shoe removals and pat-downs are ridiculously unnecessary. The only reason we continue to do this is that people are too cowed to even question the absurd taboo against profiling – when the profile of the airline attacker is narrow, concrete, [...]
Tweet This is a cross post of Conflict of Interest on Houston Red Light Cameras that I posted on The Chron site. Please comment on the Chron site directly. The Houston Red Light Cameras, as currently implemented, are a bad idea for only one reason and that reason is MONEY. Beginning with the end in [...]
Tweet Best.Propaganda. Ever by flickr user bleego.
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Tweet “I think it also worth noting, he was found in a hot tub. … That there is the way to go.” (source) masterhighresmatte 1 from Russh on Vimeo.
Tweet On the 2010 rise in bankruptcy filings: my understanding is that there are three major categories of debt that “tip” people over the edge. Credit card debt, made more difficult to vacate after the 2005 BAPCPA change. Student loans, which are almost impossible to vacate, and medical debt which is still possible to vacate. With few benefits for bankruptcy [...]
Tweet “I believe the greatest threat to our country is that we have not passed down what it means to be an American.” “We have lost the “why”. The greatest generation did not teach my generation what Americanism is.” “We believe in quality of birth but not in equality of result.” “They are preoccupied in [...]
Tweet Ran into this 2004 economics paper referenced by Wayne Marr on twitter. Several quotes that jumped out at me for a variety of reasons. All economics links added by me. “The foundation blocks of standard finance were now in place, supporting one another. Investors are rational, prices are efficient, risk is measured by beta [...]
Tweet A long time ago in a land far away, I used to know the folks at UCS. Congratulations to Bob Brockman and the team at UCS for the purchase of Reynolds and Reynolds Dealer Systems. This weeks Houston Business Journal has a write up but it isn’t online yet. Resources: R&R press release is [...]