Don’t stop ’til you get enough
Because sometimes all you really want is to watch the squirrels dance to Michael Jackson… As seen on Metafilter
Jokes
I took a great deal more satisfaction from this thread on MeFi than I probably should have. High comedy is found in the lowest places.
Awesome New Game!
I cannot wait until I get my hands on Outside. MeFi rates it 7/10 but I think it sounds way better than that.
Nitroeconomics Explains Derivatives Crash
This essay dovetails quite nicely with what I’ve been thinking w/r/t the current economic climate. The bizarre discounting of risk, the flood of money without anything concrete behind it. I got seriously interested in growth investment in the early/middle 90s but all the historical measures indicators like P/E ratio no longer seemed to apply. The…
Metafilter Does Economics
MeFi does some things poorly. It does other topics quite well. This he-said she-said over the possible US economic collapse is insightful even if the FPP contains some dubious linkage.
A Look Inside Spam
Here’s an interesting investigation into the source of the Ron Paul spam spasm from the end of October. Yes, it’s ripped from the pages of Metafilter. The discussion that ensues in the thread is by turns snarky, interesting, and partisan. Go for the snark, stay for the bits of on-topic discussion.
New and Improved Stereotypes
New and Improved Stereotypes is funnier than one might assume. I imagine it is due to the illustrations.
Black poverty in Omaha, Nebraska. | MetaFilter
Black poverty in Omaha, Nebraska. | MetaFilter is a nice roundup of links coming from an intermittent series put out by the Omaha World Herald. By nice I mean convenient. The poverty itself and the problems it generates are not nice in the least.
More Economy Fun
Buried in a MeFi thread was a link to Peter Schiff‘s latest essay on the US economy. If what he writes is true, then we are quite possibly way more fscked than previously believed. Yes, Mr. Schiff is notorious for his bearish views on the US economy. However, he lays out how the government is…
And yes, the band did play on. | MetaFilter
Pastabagel always seems to come up with some interesting angles on economic issues. His comment here: And yes, the band did play on. | MetaFilter is scary when considered in that light.