- 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.
Daily Links for January 7th
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Daily Links for January 2nd
January 3rd, 2009 · No Comments
- Pa. open-records law takes effect today | Philadelphia Inquirer | 01/01/2009 - The legislation will free Pennsylvania from having one of the worst records in the nation - some believe it was the worst - in providing access to government documents. In essence, it declares that all state, county and local government records are public unless specifically exempted. It is a vast change from the state's previous Right to Know Act, written in 1957, which had a very narrow definition of what constituted a public record.
- 9 Ways to Visualize Consumer Spending | FlowingData -
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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
- Fimoculous.com - misc - 30 Most Notable Blogs of 2008 - Maybe half of the blogs listed below are new, and the other half deserve attention for having reinvented the medium in some way. Consensus is an impossible task in a world this diverse, but that shouldn't stop us from pointing out excellence when we see it. So here they are, the most notable blogs of the past year[.]
- Inside the Playbook - The New York Times -
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Daily Links for December 14th
December 15th, 2008 · No Comments
- Seizing the white space - SlideShare -
- Supermarkets’ emergency plans to keep shelves full | Business | The Observer - Fears that scores of supermarket suppliers will go bust next year have led the country’s major chains to draw up emergency plans to replace them, The Observer can reveal.
Separately, on the high street, bailiffs are getting ready for their busiest Christmas ever, with a slew of retailers expected to go into administration.
- 20 Greatest Celebrity Courtroom Sketches -
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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
- PixoPoint | Specialists in the design, coding and implementation of websites -
- Hitler Emoticons [PIC] - Too soon.
- Teaching Online Journalism » What we now know about blogs -
- robcurley.com » The Five Ps - The 5P's, but for the internet…
- Business Dynamics Statistics - Home - The new Business Dynamics Statistics are a product of the Center for Economic Studies of the U.S. Census Bureau. The annual series describes establishment-level business dynamics along dimensions absent from similar databases including firm age and firm size. The new data series provides researchers with a tool to gain insight into the dynamics of a changing economy.
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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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