Monthly Archives: February, 2010
Commanding Heights – World Economics
If you have any interest whatsoever in the workings and machinations of the world, we heartily recommend watching Commanding Heights at some point in your life. Here we feature much of it in our playlist, to give you a taste: From the Dumb Agent Youtube channel, the playlist is here.
Books Look at Porn, Movies Don’t
After having posted about how the movie industry should look to the pornography industry in order to keep up with the times, we feel somewhat vindicated to see that the book industry seems to be doing just that. An article on Bloomberg Businessweek (“Trying to Avert a Digital Horror Story”) states how different publishers are [...]
Bankruptcy for Dummies
An interesting article in the Beyond Bailouts website mentions a proposal to make it easier for banks that are deemed “too big to fail” to actually fail. The proposal would add a new chapter into the bankruptcy code, making it easier to allow these companies to go bankrupt. While we usually cringe at the thought [...]
Miserable recovery
The Misery Index has been gaining traction as of late with its biggest increase since the early 1990′s. For those not in the know, the Misery Index isn’t a measure of how grumpy people are, but is simply the sum of the inflation and the unemployment rate. This misery index has been rising for the [...]
