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What legalizing drugs would mean for the UK economy

Love the presentation, including the public Google doc with data.

Outlook

What legalizing drugs would mean for the UK economy

by Mick Weinstein
Published December 21, 2010
Migration of receipts

Graphic artist Cameron Zotter picked up discarded receipts over a 48 hour period and mapped out how far they had traveled from the point of purchase. See the huge version on Flickr or click below:

Outlook

Migration of receipts

by Mick Weinstein
Published December 21, 2010
Something Ventured

A documentary film on the history of the venture capital business – Something Ventured – is in post-production. You can view a clip here.

Outlook

Something Ventured

by Mick Weinstein
Published December 21, 2010
New Positions on Covestor—December 20th, 2010 (TPX, CF)

Manger Craig Steury uses initial screening criteria to identify top performers and then reviews key indicators to choose equities for his Algorithmic Trading model. The model trades on a computerized system and utilizes short-term trading strategies. While it is no longer in the model, on December 20th he added shares […]

Strategies

New Positions on Covestor—December 20th, 2010 (TPX, CF)

by Yolander Prinzel
Published December 21, 2010
The minimum wage machine

From artist Blake Fall-Conroy: The minimum wage machine allows anybody to work for minimum wage. Turning the crank will yield one penny every 5.04 seconds, for $7.15 an hour (NY state minimum wage). If the participant stops turning the crank, they stop receiving money.

Outlook

The minimum wage machine

by Mick Weinstein
Published December 20, 2010
The Economics of Seinfeld

Watch reruns… and learn! Three academics created a site that contains over 100 Seinfeld clips that illustrate principles of the dismal science. As they see it: It is the simplicity of Seinfeld that makes it so appropriate for use in economics courses. Using these clips… makes economic concepts come alive, […]

Outlook

The Economics of Seinfeld

by Mick Weinstein
Published December 20, 2010
Timely! A WikiLeaks of secret deals

Groupon shmoupon. Wired’s latest issue features a piece on ninja online bargain shoppers who show just how far traditional coupon snipping has come. There’s a woman who drives away from a food shopping trip with $80 worth of groceries and and a payment from the store – ““I actually made […]

Outlook

Timely! A WikiLeaks of secret deals

by Mick Weinstein
Published December 20, 2010
U.S. Markets Mixed after Moody’s Downgrade and Statewide Unemployment Increases (GS, LCC, UNH)

The Department of Labor released its Regional and State Employment and Unemployment Summary for November today. The report (which you can read here) shows that the unemployment rate increased in 21 states and the District of Columbia. The unemployment rate decreased in 15 states and remained the same in 14. […]

Archive

U.S. Markets Mixed after Moody’s Downgrade and Statewide Unemployment Increases …

by Yolander Prinzel
Published December 20, 2010
In tough economy, Santas are also suffering

Tim Price is right: “The real takeaway here is that “the Amalgamated Order of Real Bearded Santas is a thing that exists.” Not only that, but they have a website, and some photos to share:

Outlook

In tough economy, Santas are also suffering

by Mick Weinstein
Published December 20, 2010
This year’s Green Monday will be huge for e-commerce

Ebay coined the term Green Monday to refer to its best sales day in December, which is usually the second Monday of the month. The term has come to be used generally in e-commerce circles to describe that traditionally heavy online shopping day. As described in this BuySight infographic based […]

Outlook

This year’s Green Monday will be huge for e-commerce

by Mick Weinstein
Published December 20, 2010
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings to hedge fund manager Whitney Tilson: Cover Your NFLX Short. Now.

An unusual and rather classy response from a company executive to a shortseller of his stock. Interesting that Hastings chose Seeking Alpha to publish his response – it’s a nice exclusive for my former employer. The money quote from Hastings: I have to agree with my friend Whitney that there […]

Outlook

Netflix CEO Reed Hastings to hedge fund manager Whitney Tilson: …

by Mick Weinstein
Published December 20, 2010
Meredith Whitney on 60 Minutes: Expect 50+ muni bond defaults in 2011
Outlook

Meredith Whitney on 60 Minutes: Expect 50+ muni bond defaults …

by Mick Weinstein
Published December 20, 2010

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