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Monthly Archives: December 2009
Maurice Balick is out of hibernation.
http://twitter.com/mbalick
LiveMocks employs a “wisdom of the crowd” technique to predict the order of the NFL and NBA drafts.
Live Mocks –> http://livemocks.com/ Contact Brian Boyd for more info. http://twitter.com/livemocks http://www.facebook.com/pages/Live-Mocks/282396780436
Rational sports predictions
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Posted in Betting, Forecasting (Science & Practice)
Tagged Get In, Predictions, Sports
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Every time the global temperature data gets revised and homogenized, the trends keep increasing.
One scientist investigated data from one source: What this does show is that there is at least one temperature station where the trend has been artificially increased to give a false warming where the raw data shows cooling. In addition, … Continue reading
Gold on CNBC’s Fast Money
Posted in Finance, Financial Markets, The Global Economy
Tagged Finance, Financial Markets, gold, Peter Schiff, US dollar, US economy
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Ayn Rand’s influence on Alan Greenspan is responsible for the 2008 financial crisis.
Or so is PBS’s thesis in “The Warming”. Pretty convincing. ADDENDUM Wikipedia: Brooksley E. Born is an American attorney and former public official who, from August 26, 1996 to June 1, 1999, was chairperson of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission … Continue reading
Posted in Ethics, Finance, Financial Markets, Individual Intelligence - Anti Consensus, Politics, Regulations
Tagged Alan Greenspan, Ayn Rand, Brooksley Born, CFTC, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, deregulation, derivatives, Finance, financial deregulation, Financial Markets, Lawrence Summers, laws, OTC, OTC derivatives, over the counter derivatives, PBS, Politics, Regulations, Robert Rubin, The Warming, U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, US CFTC, US politics
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Peter Schiff on gold — again
Posted in Finance, Financial Markets, The Global Economy
Tagged banks, gold, Peter Schiff, stocks, TARP, US banks, US economy
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