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Oct 09

Daily Links for October 1st through October 2nd

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  • Op-Ed Columnist – The Wizard of Beck – NYTimes.com – They pay more attention to Rush’s imaginary millions than to the real voters down the street. The Republican Party is unpopular because it’s more interested in pleasing Rush’s ghosts than actual people. The party is leaderless right now because nobody has the guts to step outside the rigid parameters enforced by the radio jocks and create a new party identity. The party is losing because it has adopted a radio entertainer’s niche-building strategy, while abandoning the politician’s coalition-building strategy.
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Jul 09

Daily Links for July 17th through July 19th

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  • 7 Reasons Why Housing Isn’t Bottoming Yet –
  • Map: Where Americans Are Living Well – Forbes.com – This map tracks population, education, business and lifestyle factors across the country, using colors to indicate the magnitude and concentration of each factor. As a "heat map," the brighter red the color, the better the region's score. To select categories, use the pull down menu above Montana and North Dakota. The data key refreshes for each category and appears south of Mexico. Data provided by ZoomProspector.com, a San Francisco-based consulting firm specializing in corporate relocation. It evaluated areas of the country with fewer than 100,000 people. Due to differing regional definitions, we used the label "town" for any city, township, borough or Census-designated place with such populations.
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Dec 08

Daily Links for December 22nd through December 31st

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Nov 08

Daily Links for November 16th

  • Cartype : Carbon Motors – Carbon Motors Corporation is a new American automaker that is developing and will manufacture, distribute, and service the Carbon E7, the world's first purpose-built law enforcement patrol vehicle.
  • Voter turnout didn’t set record: Democrats’ passion wasn’t matched by GOP – Turnout in last week's election increased from four years ago but fell far short of some forecasts largely because many Republican voters either stayed home or left blank the presidential section of their ballots.

    In states won by President-elect Barack Obama, turnout was more than five percentage points higher than in states won by Republican John McCain, according to a Globe analysis of data compiled by a pair of researchers who study voting patterns in US elections.

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Oct 08

Daily Links for October 13th

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Feb 08

Paying it Forward: Robbing 2009 to Bail Out 2008

Back in the car business, you were only as good as your last sales month. “I don’t care that you sold twenty cars last month, what have you done lately?”

Since automobile sales people are typically motivated by both a percentage of gross profit and unit-driven pay plans, there’s a lot of temptation to ‘rob Peter to pay Paul’.  If the sales person, finance manager, or sales manager can somehow extend a month (example, the month ends of a Friday, but you count sales on that next Saturday as being for the previous month) it could be possible to meet your bonus levels.  Harmless little bit of creative accounting, right?  Well, no.  Read more...

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Jan 08

Financial Chickens, Meet Roost.

I’ve seen the rhetoric for the D-word heating up, and I don’t mean downturn. This very well may be the week that the curtain is pulled back on the batshit insanity that is the US economy.

The stock market has lost @ 10% of it’s value since 1/2/08. In 1929, the one day drop was 13% (There were actually several tightly spaced drop; In 1987, the one day drop was 23%, eventually totalling 60%.

As Barry Ritholtz states at the Big Picture:

World markets are plunging in response to fears and expectations that the United States will be (or already is) in a recession that will be both long and deep.  Read more...

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