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Daily Links for January 7th

January 8th, 2009 · No Comments

  • Calculated Risk: Fed Fears Long Recession - The Fed projects GDP to decline in 2009 "as a whole", and unemployment to "rise significantly into 2010". The Fed also expects disinflationary pressures to continue into 2010.
  • air_force_blog_char.jpg (JPEG Image, 735×1106 pixels) - This flowchart highlights the blog reading decision making tree for the Air Force. I'd say it's actually quite good, assuming their intentions include being informative and not distributing solely propaganda.
  • Google Trends: sears | closing | kmart - I've had a lot of search queries hitting my site for "sears store closing" referencing the "store closing list post". Based on the Google Trends chart, it's an annual occurrence, right after Christmas.

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Daily Links for January 2nd

January 3rd, 2009 · No Comments

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Daily Links for January 1st through January 2nd

January 2nd, 2009 · No Comments

  • How your friends’ friends can affect your mood - life - 30 December 2008 - New Scientist - Indeed, it is becoming clear that a whole range of phenomena are transmitted through networks of friends in ways that are not entirely understood: happiness and depression, obesity, drinking and smoking habits, ill-health, the inclination to turn out and vote in elections, a taste for certain music or food, a preference for online privacy, even the tendency to attempt or think about suicide. They ripple through networks "like pebbles thrown into a pond", says Nicholas Christakis, a medical sociologist at Harvard Medical School in Boston, who has pioneered much of the new work.

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Daily Links for December 22nd through December 31st

December 31st, 2008 · No Comments

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Daily Links for December 14th

December 15th, 2008 · No Comments

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Daily Links for December 9th

December 10th, 2008 · No Comments

  • GOOD » Books Are the New Cars» - Another day, another imploding industry…
  • Economist’s View: “Capitalist Fools” - Was there any single decision which, had it been reversed, would have changed the course of history? … The truth is most of the individual mistakes boil down to just one: a belief that markets are self-adjusting and that the role of government should be minimal. … The embrace by America—and much of the rest of the world—of this flawed economic philosophy made it inevitable that we would eventually arrive at the place we are today.

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Daily Links for December 3rd

December 4th, 2008 · No Comments

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Daily Links for December 1st

December 2nd, 2008 · No Comments

  • Map: Show Me the TARP Money - ProPublica - Each marker represents the headquarters of a financial institution that expects or has already received money from the Treasury Department under the TARP (Troubled Asset Relief Program). The size of each marker represents the amount of bailout money given to each institution. Click on the markers to see the institution’s name and amount it’s receiving.

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