• Prediction: Divorce rate to skyrocket in US in 4/08

    Give people about a month after their subprime mortgage payment balloons to obscene proportions and it’s not hard to guess that in some cases, that will lead to divorce and broken homes. The next big wave of resets begins in March 2008, based on the CSFB data in the chart above. Buckle your seatbelts and…

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  • Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson: The Worst Is Just Beginning

    [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETQj3a221EQ[/youtube] The market crashes, turns to ashes that you’re dancing on while some fat lady cues up for a song. You just don’t panic, so they said in all the good books that I have read. You just lay back and feed your head, but that ain’t clever, that never got nothing to sell, hell,…

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  • Happy Valentine's Day!

    Valentine’s Day doesn’t rank highly on my list of important days. As CC Chapman said, if you need a holiday to show someone you love that you care, you have serious issues you need to address in your relationship. Combine that with crass commercialism and an attempt to raid your wallet through your heart by…

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  • Daily Show Clip

    Worth watching, on the housing crisis.

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  • Where does your beer money come from?

    I’ve got a post on the work blog about beer money, and would LOVE your thoughts and comments on it: Financial Aid Podcast Community Question: Where do you get your beer money?

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  • Metcalfe's Blog

    Metcalfe’s Blog We’ve talked in the past about Metcalfe’s Law, the idea that in a network, every new member of the network not only derives value from the network, but makes the network as a whole more valuable; the classic example cited is the fax machine. Every fax machine sold increases the value of existing…

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  • 18-1, Super Choke, and more

    The latest Marketing Over Coffee is now available, in which we discuss how you can make millions of dollars with useless sports slogans. I nominate for the latest from Super Bowl XLII: 18-1 Super Choke Nobody’s Perfect

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  • CNN I-Reporter Stuff

    So I made a short video this morning and submitted it to CNN. Upsides – the video got aired. They did keep the mention of the podcast. Downsides – no link love, and they removed the titling, which I wasn’t terribly concerned with, but they did strip the credit for the music for Matthew Ebel.

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  • Lawrence Lessig on Obama vs. Clinton

    A VERY well reasoned, well presented case in the debate between Obama and Clinton. Watch it. Click To Play Hat tip to Joe Carpenter.

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  • Super Tuesday!

    [youtube]https://youtube.com/watch?v=Dpjkpg7vdMg[/youtube]

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