Politics
- White House Beer: A Brewer Weighs In. Can I get a growler fill, Barack?
- Mr. Market seems to be screaming ‘four more years.’
- Who Built That? – Simon Johnson on our country’s evolution and “Why Nations Fail”
- FBI to roll out $1 billion public facial recognition system in 2014
- The Taliban Is Using Facebook Profiles Of Hot Chicks To Gather US Intelligence
- Why does U.S. Social Security Administration need 174,000 bullets?
- The Conservative “Lorax”
Economy
- Why Bernanke must do more… And why it may prove too little too late
- Jobless rate drops! …due to more job seekers giving up hope. Ugh.
- Chart of the Week: Labor Force Participation Falls To Its Lowest Level Since 1981
- First FedEx, now Intel… A couple of big bellwethers throwing cold water on this rally.
- When Capitalists Cared – ‘Give the middle class a better share and the economy will grow faster’
- Study: U.S. Healthcare Wastes $750B Every Year
- Fears Rising, Spaniards Pull Out Their Cash and Get Out of Spain
- The Phones Of Greek Real Estate Brokers Are Ringing Off The Hook As The Mad Rush To Buy Cheap Villas Has Begun
- US home prices see largest jump in six years: “the light at the end of a very long tunnel”?
- Stockton, CA made the same mistake millions of investors do every day: trusting Wall Street
- An Egyptian Bets on Natural Gas in Iowa
Your Money
- The Best Things to Buy in September
- Managing a Child’s Allowance… Online
- Slowing momentum, insider selling along with fundamental and macro clouds are all now headwinds for stocks
- New highs for stocks and still plenty of skeptics
- This week’s rally clearly fueled by “pain trade”
- Mutual Fund Exodus by the Numbers
- Here I answer the question, “Should I avoid buying ANY stocks in September?”
- This is one reason I’ll be teaching Investing 101 at the Community College next year
- Ray Dalio on the Primary Reason to own Gold
- Is the Bond Market Setting Up for a Crash?
- Are you a Morgan Stanley client who got screwed by the Facebook IPO? You have every right to be pissed off.
- Be careful buying drinks at dive bars or shares of young tech cos. Both may be watered down.
- 10 inviolable rules for dealing with Wall Street
Miscellaneous
- Google created the concept of “20% time” employees could commit to self-directed projects. At Valve it’s 100% time.
- 22% of Android Users Will Buy iPhone 5
- Amazon’s Jeff Bezos: “We want to make money when people use our devices, not when they buy our devices.”
- Apple Seeks to Create Pandora Rival
- Gangnam Style: 102 million YouTube views. Is it the music or the video?
- For Oregon/Gangnam fans…
- “Music of the Unquiet Mind” or Zen and the Art of Music Composition
- Portland Project Aims to Harness the Power of Waves
- Yamhill, Oregon: Where Cows Are Happy and Food Is Healthy
- Screw 1995, @reddit. 1983 was the best year for movies.