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Archive for December, 2005

Deal Or No Deal

Thursday, December 22nd, 2005

My father has been watching a new gameshow on NBC. It’s hosted by second-rate comic Howie Mandell (whose biggest claim to fame is the voice of Bobby’s Dad on the 1990s cartoon Bobby’s World), and involves about as much skill as picking lottery numbers. The shockingly creative name of the show? That’s […]

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Europe News

Saturday, December 17th, 2005

A couple of days ago I spotted this little gem of a news item over on Drudge. A couple of the key paragraphs give pretty keen insight into the mind of a regulator:
“It would be a distortion of competition if we were to just regulate one and not all,” EU Information Commissioner Viviane […]

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More Investment Advice

Sunday, December 11th, 2005

“Jane Galt” has a great post about what you should do with your money up. Her advice, I think, is spot-on, the very first comment on the thread is me linking back to my own advice posted earlier.
A friend also suggested that the First Jobs Institute and their sub-project Econ4U might be worth checking […]

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It’s Come To This?

Sunday, December 4th, 2005

In the midst of a shooting war in two different countries, a looming budget deficit problem, and any number of issues of national import, what do our beloved tolerated Congresscritters have time for? Investigating the BCS. My alma mater may be out of BCS running due to the strange voodoo running the BCS, […]

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