Just browsed my quantcast profile, which, for some reason, stopped receiving data the past couple of weeks.
I’m read by more men (over 66%) than women. By more Caucasians than any other group – 77%. 8% of my readers are Asian (next highest demographic). 7% are black (not sure if this means African-American?). 6% are Hispanic.
My readers are mostly over 35 years (29% over 35, 28% over 50 years). Continue reading
From AP, “SEC Puts In New Circuit Breaker Rules,” June 9, 2010
“Regulators still don’t know exactly what caused the “flash crash,” but they wanted to move ahead with remedies.”
“Don’t Know” and “Wanted To Move”.
Therein lies a brief history of intellectual error. Or as Pascal said: “All human evil comes from a single cause, man’s inability to sit still in a room.”
Mises should have written another book – “Human Inaction.”
About two weeks ago, I started a diet that involved eating mostly vegetables, seeds, and lean protein, along with some vitamin supplements. I’ve been feeling exhausted and overwhelmed all the time, even after sleeping well.
Well, two weeks are up now. Time to review and see if my diet is having any effect. Continue reading
In a way, this attack has its redeeming side. I believe it will be a wake-up call to many Asian countries that have large Muslim populations that they are destined to suffer the backlash for the aggressive position taken by the Israeli government. Continue reading
Michael Neumann (at Counterpunch) is to be commended for his bravery in stating what’s obvious to the non-Western world but seems to elude many Western commentators (yes, and that’s “collectivist” – it’s a generalization, but it happens to be accurate):
:”What is remarkable about the story of Canada and wartime Jewry is not the callousness, but the pangs of conscience, which highlight the morally privileged position of Jews vis-à-vis other victims of oppression. Despite the antisemitism of at least some immigration officials, there is no reason to suppose that Canada’s policy on Jewish refugees was itself antisemitic, or that it victimized Jews. Continue reading
“Billionaire investor Warren Buffett on Wednesday defended credit rating agencies that gave overly positive grades to mortgage-related investments before the housing bust. He said the agencies were among many who missed warnings signs of the crisis.
“They made the wrong call,” Buffett acknowledged.
But he said he counted himself among those who failed to foresee the collapse of the housing bubble. Buffett called it the “greatest bubble” he had ever seen.
“The entire American public was caught up in a belief that housing prices could not fall dramatically,” Buffett told a congressionally chartered panel investigating the financial crisis. Had he known how bad it would get, Buffett said he would have sold his company’s stake in Moody’s.” Continue reading
Ray Charles in a great performance of America, the Beautiful.
“Government debt problems in Greece predictably have generated a great deal of domestic hand-wringing over nosebleed deficits and spending in the United States.
By now many people are familiar with what the experts say is ahead, including, but not limited to, a downgrade of U.S. debt, no more “kindness of strangers” as investors the world over turn their backs on a country lacking any spending discipline and, finally, skyrocketing interest rates as U.S. Treasury yields rise to match their well-earned junk reputation. To believe the experts, the U.S. is Greece, only larger, and the Titanic is nearing the iceberg. Continue reading
Understand the facts about microchip implantation at Antichips.com, as well as at Spychips.com.
Here, site founder Katherine Albrecht, author of “Spychips: How Major Corporations and Governments Plan To Track Your Every Purchase and Watch Your Every Move With RFID”, describes how the chips are implanted and function and points out how they could be misused by the government: Continue reading