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Thursday

Time scarce. Just two things today: 1. Nerds with a sense of humor. The financial mavericks at Zero Hedge slay me: > Greece has just become the biggest sovereign debt panhandler, begging its own people for a bailout. The Greek situation is now so bad that as of a few

Monday

The Lawful Stalker Census takers will be arriving shortly, and they'll be asking a lot of invasive questions. With that in mind, watch this nifty little video [http://www.thepostmanscorner.net/da/movies9116.html]. Caveat: The commentator is correct about the plain wording of the constitution, but I

Wednesday

"Strep Wednesday." Just a slight case, but I've been feeling lousy. Penicillin kicking in shortly, I hope. For today, just this: Gadgets That Will Save You Money [http://shopping.yahoo.com/articles/yshoppingarticles/342/gadgets-that-will-save-you-money/] . I normally click on these sites

Crowding Out

h/t [http://cafehayek.com/]

Monday

Ain't Goin' Back! From what I can glean from TV news, Obama's new jobs bill will cost $800 billion over the next two years. Although it contains tax credit for employers who hire new employees, it is geared toward creating more jobs in the public

From the Notebooks

Groping Toward a Catholic von Mises I like to find connections in different areas of knowledge. If I discovered a connection between Flannery O'Connor's practice of fiction and Augustine's criticism of Pelagianism, complete with concrete examples, I'd be delighted. Fifteen years ago,

Monday

Grappling to Understand You ever stumble across something huge that you've never heard of? That happened to me this weekend while reading The Atlantic. I read an article entitled, "The Listener [http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/print/201001/coast-to-coast]." It's about George

From the Notebooks

Investment Decision: Dying White Guys or Growing Non-Whites? "If the growth rate of per capita income . . . between 2003 and 2050 remains as it was between 1973 and 2003--averaging 1.68 percent annually in Europe, the United States, and Canada and 2.47 percent annually in the rest

Wednesday

Grant a Bull An economics writer I trust is bullish. That, according to New York magazine. I like NYM, but I don't trust it. Awhile back, I remember they wrote about the sense of public service that prompts Goldman Sachs to require its executives to take government job

Tuesday

Calamity Insurance What percentage of your investments should be in precious metals? Of that percentage, should you count gold-mining stocks? Those are questions I struggle with. I don't really have any good benchmarks, but I've heard "no more than 10%" offered by mainstream