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• How To Prepare, Promote and Practice A Brand-New Presentation

  
  Marketing Actuary — Authority: 106
  Lieutenant Dan got me invested in some kind of fruit company. So then I got a call from him, saying we dont have to worry about money no more. And I said, thats good! One less thing. --- Forrest Gump referring to Apple Have you ever walked along the edge of a cliff without noticing and later marveled that you didnt ...
  14 hours ago

• Adventures in ill-advised medical contrarianism

  
  Lawyers, Guns and Money — Authority: 699
  Over at Science-Based Medicine, Mark Crislip offers a long, detailed and highly-informed critique of this cover story in The Atlantic that speculates (sloppily) about the efficacy and safety of the vaccine for H1N1/09. Unlike Crislip, Im not an infectious disease doctor and I dont intent to play one in the ...
  1 day ago

• IMS Health is Being Stolen

  
  Wall St. Cheat Sheet — Authority: 618
  It was announced Thursday that IMS Health was to be stolen from its shareholders for $4 billion or about $22 share; a private equity firm will buy them out. IMS Health should have free cash flows this year over $340 million (the actual number should be higher than $400 million, but is benefited by a $60 million ...
  4 days ago

• The Monster Devouring Us

  
  Blaine Staat — Authority: 110
  Just an interesting article on the potential perils of the internet. Its not very long, but it raises some very pertinent questions that very few people today seem to be concerned about: The monster devouring us: Even the men who created the internet are beginning to fear its power to destroy our freedom If ...
  5 days ago

• Howard Lovecraft and the Frozen Kingdom

  
  The Contrarian — Authority: 132
  A while back , we told readers about a new graphic novel called Howard Lovecraft and the Frozen Kingdom , by artist-writer Bruce Brown . Well, Bruce tipped us off that it’s about to be published (I’ll be pre-ordering my copy today). The book concerns the adventures of a six-year old boy named Howard ...
  5 days ago

• Andy Martin discloses Barack Obama’s “family secrets”

  
  Contrarian Commentary — Authority: 91
  U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin, the mere mention of whose name sends President Obama into fist-clenching rage, comments on the new “novel” by Barack Obama’s putative “half-brother.” The “war” between the two men, Barack Obama and Andy Martin, may escalate if Martin is elected to Obama’s former U. ...
  5 days ago

• Just Between You & Me

  
  Blaine Staat — Authority: 110
  I’ve been thinking a lot about secrets lately. Not just secrets themselves, but more to the point, things that are done in secret. As far as I can tell, there are only two real reasons why someone would hide something from you: 1) It’s none of your business 2) It’s something that they shouldn’t be doing ...
  1 week ago

• The Contrarian Book Report: Let the Right One In

  
  The Contrarian — Authority: 132
  I’m a slow reader these days. Well, more like incredibly distracted. For whatever reason, it’s become increasingly difficult for me to make time to read in the old-fashioned way — you know, like turning typeset ink pages of bound paper? If only there were a device that let me read books electronically… ...
  1 week ago

• H1N1 vaccination dogma

  
  Anglican Samizdat — Authority: 135
  I must admit when I see every major newspaper carrying full-page advertisements exhorting me to do something, a sense of inner rebellion wells up making me want not to do it. In the ad, Dr. Arlene King, Ontario’s Chief Medical Officer of Health implores: I hear it all the time – various reasons for people not ...
  1 week ago

• Stupid Music Ideas I Will Never Get To

  
  The Contrarian — Authority: 132
  Sometimes, when in the shower, I am struck by a barrage of ideas for songs, albums, odd musical projects, etc. Here are a handful that I will likely never find time for: A Latino death metal band called Sotomayor (after the first Latina Supreme Court justice, natch). The set list is ever-evolving, but most of the ...
  1 week ago

• Nouriel Roubini Agrees with Jeff Gundlach

  
  Sense on Cents — Authority: 561
  Dr. Doom agrees with Wall Street’s top fixed income manger? Who are these individuals and on what do they agree? Both these individuals are Economic All-Stars here at Sense on Cents (see left sidebar).   Nouriel Roubini (aka Dr. Doom) and  Jeff Gundlach (aka Wall Street’s top fixed income manger) possess ...
  2 weeks ago

• How To Apply Consistent Persistent Generosity

  
  Marketing Actuary — Authority: 106
  The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give. --- Walt Whitman What youre doing right now gets you some results. How do you get more clients? How do you keep the ones youve got? To improve your results, try consistent persistent generosity . This catchy phrase is the title of a very short blog post ...
  2 weeks ago

• Landbanking in UK:Scam?

  
  Investment Moats - Stock Market Investing — Authority: 418
  If you are a Singaporean you can’t run away from property agents,insurance agents. For me add another category: land banking agents. Being someone interested in fiance and investing, it is only a matter of time before land banking gets introduce to you. What do i think of it? i think its a supposed win win ...
  2 weeks ago

• For the Common Good of All

  
  Blaine Staat — Authority: 110
  When it comes to the government executing on the statement in the U.S. Constitution that reads “ . . . provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States . . .”, is there a limit on what they “provide”? Apparently not, according to the House Majority leader: House Majority Leader ...
  2 weeks ago

• New Nationialism - Roosevelt Speeches - 1912

  
  The Health Care Reform Debate Blog - cmhmd — Authority: 120
  New Nationialism - Roosevelt Speeches - 1912 Im listening to a biography of TR, "A Lion in the White House," and there is a lot about this speech given by Roosevelt at Osawatomie, Kansas on August 31, 1910. He makes me sound like Rush Limbaugh. Here are a few quotes: "Labor is prior to, and independent of, ...
  2 weeks ago

• A Big, Fat Stock Market Selloff

  
  The Daily Reckoning — Authority: 645
  Stocks prices are very, very high… Our contrarian colleagues over at The 5-Minute Forecast continuously lament…which means that the collective anxiety of investors is very, very low. Our colleagues don’t mind that a rising stock market is adding trillions of dollars to the asset side of household balance ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Contrarian/Sentient Developments Crossover: Progress Report

  
  The Contrarian — Authority: 132
  As previously mentioned, I’ve been guest-blogging over at Sentient Developments throughout October. While not quite as geektastic as a Marvel/DC universe crossover, it’s still pretty damn exciting. Well, for me, anyway — SentDev is one of my fave sites on the interwebs, and unlike much of the stuff you find ...
  2 weeks ago

• “Let the Right One In” for The Contrarian Book Club?

  
  The Contrarian — Authority: 132
  Totally not formalized, yet, but I have ideas. A Skype call then a podcast? I dunno. So I’m finally getting around to reading Let the Right One In , by Swedish novelist John Ajvide Lindqvist . I positively adore the film , and have placed it on my top ten all time “horror” flicks. (Though I am a genre ...
  3 weeks ago

• Inflation Investing - A Historical Perspective on What To Do

  
  Commodity Bull Market — Authority: 421
  On Friday I was having a discussion with my friend about inflation, speculating about what may happen to stock prices if inflation were to take hold. Both of us are big fans of Marc Faber, so we were discussing the scenario that Faber has been predicting - that if cash is about to become trash thanks to government ...
  3 weeks ago

• Evasive Tactics In Arguments Youre Hopelessly Losing Part I

  
  Lawyers, Guns and Money — Authority: 699
  Via Plumer , Stephen Dubners attempt to preempt the many critics of their global warming arguments contains two classic approaches: We have a chapter in SuperFreakonomics about global warming and it too will likely produce a lot of shouting, name-calling, and accusations ranging from idiocy to ...
  3 weeks ago

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