Archive for April, 2008
« Previous Entries Next Entries »Scotch Whiskey sales (2006)($bn)
Submitted by 2point6billion.com Blog
Numbers: (1.1,0.048)
More Here>
Thoughts on Naomi Klein’s Shock Doctrine
Submitted by Unsettling Economics
I have only read a hundred pages of Naomi Klein’s shocked doctrine, but I thought that it was a very valuable work so far. It should not be judged either as an work of economic history as an all-encompassing theory of capitalism.
More Here>
Result of U.S. War on Drugs: PRISON NATION
Submitted by CARPE DIEM
The United States leads the world in prisoner production. There are 2.3 million people behind bars. China, with four times as many people, has 1.6 million in prison.
More Here>
Strippers Can’t Compete with Internet
Submitted by CARPE DIEM
TORONTO, April 28 (UPI) — The number of strippers and strip clubs in Toronto is declining, with former dancers blaming the Internet for putting them out of work.
More Here>
Are Inflationary Concerns Inflated?
Submitted by CARPE DIEM
Inflation: Food
More Here>
Bad Auto Investments / Weight Inequality
Submitted by CARPE DIEM
More Here>
The Stressful Effects of a Weak Economy: What’s a Business Manager to Do?
Submitted by Businomics Blog
The weak economy is causing stress for many workers. In the Businomics Audio Magazine, Dale Collie, a former Army ranger and corporate executive talks about how to deal with stress, including lessons from both his business experience and Vietnam service.
More Here>
Fear, Investors, and Marketing
Submitted by A Dash of Insight
The most powerful selling approaches go with the flow.
Let us compare “selling” investment opinions with the positions of politicians seeking the Presidency. Both topics hit our sweet spot. We have also been talking with many individual investors and also many voters. It is interesting.
More Here>
Green Parenting Links (and awards!)-
Submitted by Non-Toxic Kids
This just in, Non-Toxic Kids has been awarded a Blog of Distinction award from Amanda, who blogs for the Environmental Working Group at Enviroblog.
Here’s what she had to say about us:
More Here>
R-Type Leo recording
Submitted by Gaming Briefs and Nostalgia Bits
Click over to view it.
More Here>
Atari Football clip
Submitted by Gaming Briefs and Nostalgia Bits
Comes right after the jump.
More Here>
For Gamers, the Craving Won’t Quit
Submitted by Video Game 2 Play
By MATT RICHTEL
SAN FRANCISCO — The troubled economy and rising prices for food and gas won’t keep fast-twitch video gamers from splurging on their latest must-have diversion, Grand Theft Auto IV.
During the next two weeks, some five million couch jockeys are expected to plunk down $60 to buy Grand Theft […]
Why You Shouldn’t Read Workout & Diet Books
Submitted by Turbulence Training
Craig Ballantyne Interview with Jimmy Lamour, Part 1
Q. Hi Craig. Good to have you hear to do this interview. Could you tell us what made you interested in the fitness industry? What is your background?
More Here>
Stock Picks and Trade Ideas for Tuesday
Submitted by My Ambitions as a Trader and Investor
New Buy Candidates: AXR, TACT (previously mentioned, XTLB (rebuy)
More Here>
Penny Stock List
Submitted by Dr. PennyStock
Penny stock list for April 29, 2008
Penny Stocks - AAI BBI CKNN CYTR DEEP DFR DVAX FBR FMD GNBT GRO HYTM KERX LUM MCU MESA MSPD NBF NUVO PTSC PTSH QTM REV RMDX SCA SWVC TGIC TMA XJT XRM
More Here>
A Tummy Ache Or Something More
Submitted by Dr. Gwenn Is In
April is Irritable Bowel Awareness Month and I just posted some interesting info over at A Dose of Dr. Gwenn.
More Here>
Knowing is Half the Battle
Submitted by Boys and Schools Blog
I sometimes feel like it’s it’s almost too easy to jump on the anti-video game wagon when it comes to pinpointing problems with boys. They can be a handy punching bag, especially when you consider the fact that they don’t punch back. But I’m limited by my own […]
Should Have The Talladega Race Finished Under The Green?
Submitted by NASCAR Eclectic
You want the simple answer to this?
No (can’t get more simple than that).
No, it should not have finished under green.
More Here>
Economics of College
Submitted by CARPE DIEM
In the first of a three-part series on the “Economics of College,” economist Thomas Sowell asks, “How many people would go to college if they had to pay the real cost of all the resources taken from other parts of the economy? Probably a lot fewer people.”
More Here>
$100 Int’l. Phone Call in 1973 Now Costs Only $1.60
Submitted by CARPE DIEM
Russia’s New Consumer Nation: Wal-Mart Drools
Submitted by CARPE DIEM
More Here>
Every Sales Receipt in Russia Gets Ripped!
Submitted by CARPE DIEM
I’ve been to Russia now four times, and one of the most interesting and unusual retail practices in stores there is the Russian sales clerks’ habit of tearing almost every sales receipt before they hand it to you or set it down on the counter (see picture above).
More Here>
ABCDs in India
Submitted by CARPE DIEM
NPR: In this broadcast we talk to a bunch of American-born Indians and their local friends who discuss what it’s like to come “home” and what it’s like to be invaded by Americans who want to rediscover their “Indian-ness”. The locals have a nickname for these Americans —they call them “ABCDs.” That’s […]
Free Trade
Submitted by CARPE DIEM
“Freer Trade Could Fill the World’s Rice Bowl,” by Tyler Cowen in The NY Times
More Here>
LA Food Fight: Black Market Bacon Dogs
Submitted by CARPE DIEM
Amid the hustle and bustle of downtown Los Angeles, there exists another world, an underground world of illicit trade in—not drugs or sex—but bacon-wrapped hot dogs. Street vendors may sell you an illegal bacon dog, but hardly anyone will talk about it, for fear of being hassled, shut down or worse. Reason.tv’s […]