Hit the Links

• Michigan Begs For $100,000 Engineers After Auto Rebound

• New-Home Sales Jumped 26% in July, inventory of new homes available 4 sale lowest since data tracking began in ’63

• Gen X Bears the Brunt of The Real Estate Bust

• ‘Globalization makes many workers borderline-replaceable and nothing borderline-replaceable is expensive.’

Your Money

• So it looks like Morgan Stanley used their mutual fund investors to try to prop up the FaceBook IPO

• And Now Facebook’s Bankers Are Divvying Up The $100 Million They Made Shorting Facebook’s Stock

• Let me be the first to say, “nice trade, @peterthiel“

• Regulators warn that bad advice is now one of the top threats facing investors

• So crazy that people buy into this kind of thing time and time again

• Financial Expert Says Ponzi Scheme Victims Are Just Gullible

• Brokers aren’t required by law to put your interests first and they’re fighting like hell to keep it that way

• Warren Buffett seemed happy to back the solvency of certain municipalities… until recently

• I guess he agrees – “Muni Bonds Not as Safe as Thought”

• Last chance for 0% tax on some capital gains

• Is The Collectible Car Market The Place To Put Your Money?

• LOVE THIS: “The complete cynic’s guide to investing”

Miscellaneous

• Giving In to the Surveillance State: the NSA is building a 1 million square foot facility just to house all the data on YOU

• Here’s what successful people do with the first hour of their day

• Meet the man who just bet $5.7 Billion on Obama’s reelection

• Why I’m uninstalling Windows 8

• If Steve Jobs were still alive he could add the values of Microsoft, Intel and Google and still have more than $13B daylight for Apple

• You know what J.S. Bach’s business model was? Repairing organs for money. The music was usually for free

• So it turns out Bank of the Cascades lied to regulators about their financial health during the crisis

• 10 shortcuts for using your iPhone or iPad – I didn’t know half of these

• Finally, the wristwatch is getting a technology makeover

• Door Does An Incredible Miles Davis Impression