Monthly Archives: December 2009

Maurice Balick is out of hibernation.

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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

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Rational sports predictions

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The Big Business Of Illegal Gambling

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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

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Gold on CNBC’s Fast Money

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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

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Is the gold rush over?

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Peter Schiff on gold — again

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ClimateGate, Cap and Trade, and Copenhagen

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