Unintended Consequences

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• Twitter Billboard Leads to Epic Fail [PIC]

  
  Computer & Internet - computer-internet.marc8.com — Authority: 167
  A TV station in Alabama is learning that live Twitter billboards sometimes deliver unintended consequences. read more
  5 hours ago

• Liberal turmoil clouds debate on climate bills

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  The Federal Opposition looks set to change leaders, as the emissions trading legislation that sparked the Liberal row comes back before the Senate. The Upper House failed to meet the Governments deadline of passing the scheme by last week, prompting the Governments Senate leader, Chris Evans, to accuse the Opposition ...
  9 hours ago

• Rudd plays careful hand at CHOGM

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  Prime Minister Kevin Rudds appearance at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) is an exercise in double-purpose diplomacy. First, he wants to keep a high profile among his Commonwealth colleagues, meeting all the big players of this 53-nation group: Britains Gordon Brown, Indias Manmohan Singh, South ...
  20 hours ago

• Why Are Businesses Not Hiring?

  
  QandO — Authority: 143
  W e’ll soon be treated to the spectacle of a White House job summit in December.  Yes, almost 11 months into his presidency, Barack Obama has discovered that the public is most concerned with the economy and jobs – not health care.  Not the environment.  Ironically, it is most likely those two things at which ...
  1 day ago

• Giving the Bird on Dead Turkey Day and Other Holiday Traditions

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 458
  Satire By John w. Lillpop Years ago, it came to pass that I discovered that those obligatory family gatherings on big holidays can be more hazardous to ones health than smoking. Therefore, being of sound mind and addicted to tobacco, I did the prudent thing: Gave up the family gatherings and kept the smokes! ...
  4 days ago

• I just realized that rampant speculation in gold fuels war

  
  Caveat Bettor — Authority: 433
  in Africa , to be exact.
  4 days ago

• The unemployment problem is harder to correct because of the change to a global economy.

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 156
  The number of producing jobs (farming, manufacturing and construction) has decreased significantly because of out sourcing manufactured goods and reduction in residential and commercial construction as a result unintended consequences from government forcing financially unsound affordable housing. The number of non ...
  5 days ago

• unintended consequences, law of

  
  Jockey Full of Bourbon — Authority: 135
  earlier today the talented and lovely val pointed us to the recent Pearl Jam concert at Austin City Limits. the show was pretty good ( I did get the throwaway bit, val. lovely) of course once in the site, one tends to peruse among the available... Read and post comments | Send to a friend
  5 days ago

• Whats Your Best Externality?

  
  Freakonomics — Authority: 719
  The last two years Ive run an "externality" contest in my giant intro class, offering $5 to the student who comes up with the best example.
  6 days ago

• When Do “Show Trials” Become A Circus?

  
  QandO — Authority: 143
  I don’t think there’s any real doubt that Eric Holder’s decision to try the 9/11 defendants in New York’s federal court was as much about politics as justice. President Obama’s remarks about KSM’s guilt and the outcome of the trial left little doubt this is to be a show trial. And while I’m certainly ...
  6 days ago

• PRO-CAPITAL-PUNISHMENT ILLOGIC: LET HE WHO IS WITHOUT SIN DRIVE THE FIRST CAR

  
  REAL LIBERAL CHRISTIAN CHURCH — Authority: 129
  I added the following to the Facebook group, "Abolish the Death Penalty II": http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=18 1786212516 One of the things this group can do is be a forum where refutations to pro-capital punishment assertions may be stated, suggested, refined, etc. For example, one assertion is that the ...
  1 week ago

• Barbarians at the Gate: Are We Watching the Demise of Sound Central Banking?

  
  Incentives Matter — Authority: 128
  Bob McTeer explains in this post and John Taylor in this post how central bank independence to conduct monetary policy is under attack here in the US. Its also under attack in many other countries right at this moment. Take the Central Bank of Brazil, (which has never been too independent anyway) as an example: ...
  1 week ago

• Disinvest, use money for green assets: Finance Commission chief (With Images)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  New Delhi, Nov 20 (IANS) The government should sell off half its public sector undertakings and use the $200 billion it will thus make to build environmental assets, 13th Finance Commission Chairman Vijay Kelkar said here Friday.“India built physical assets by setting up public sector undertakings when that was ...
  1 week ago

• How the AIG bailout scuttles chances for a second stimulus

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 175
  Paul Krugman is right to be worried about the unintended consequences of the AIG bailout: [Inane quote from Paul Krugman. see artile]I do fear that the Obama administration has done a bad job of separating the financial-sector bailouts, on the one hand, from the stimulus bill, on the other. And if the general public ...
  1 week ago

• Show Me the Money

  
  War On You: Breaking Alternative News — Authority: 568
  Show Me the Money We have been conditioned from birth to believe that everything wrong in our society is about Greed: The inordinate desire to acquire or possess more than one needs or deserves, especially with respect to material wealth. However, my research concludes the earth’s environmental damage and ...
  1 week ago

• Back of the Envelope Calculations on the Minimum Wages Impact on Teen Unemployment

  
  The Perfect Substitute — Authority: 131
  The new federal minimum wage went into effect at the end of July this summer, and non-coincidentally teenage unemployment rose. Everyone is facing a tougher than usual job market, but teens found work to be especially scarce this summer. Even though it wasnt until the middle of summer that the new higher minimum ...
  1 week ago

• Wednesday Links

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 731
  Why America leads the world in medical innovation. If the health care overhaul bill were a medical product it would have to come with a warning label, which could read something like this: Warning: This product will increase your health insurance premiums, make your children poorer and won’t make you ...
  1 week ago

• Unintended Consequences of the New York City Terrorist Trial

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 175
  New York City experienced Muslim Day in 2008. Then there was the pro-Hamas demonstration in Florida. Will there be similar parades and demonstrations in support of the terrorists? Will there be counter demonstrations? Will angry Americans say enough is enough and confront the Muslim demonstrations? I think the answer ...
  1 week ago

• Quotes of the day

  
  Caveat Bettor — Authority: 433
  When a hedge fund puts a value on a position, first we have to get some highly regarded independent verification that we really do hold that position somewhere, then we have to get independent verification of the value of that position. Why do I feel like Rodney Dangerfield? ... I like to make money, of course, but I ...
  1 week ago

• Quotes of the day

  
  Caveat Bettor — Authority: 433
  Some strategies that fail ex post might be optimal ex ante .-- Greg Mankiw Here is why I respect Belichick so much. The data suggest that he actually probably did the right thing if his objective was to win the game.-- Steven Levitt CNN was so sick of Lou Dobbs , it gave him an $8 million severance package to ...
  1 week ago

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