http://article.nationalreview.com/print/?q=ZmM0MGRmNDczYzYyZmFmNGJlZmU3MGM5ZThhZGYzMTA=

Fascinating… (and well worth the 20 min)

If you are not familiar with Nassim Taleb, definitely Google him.

Thought the following picture tells an interesting story.  What do you think?

Here is the full article.  The most interesting ideas, I thought, were:

Challenges the idea that Republicans are the “rich person’s party”.
Presents an interesting motivation for Bush’s tax cuts (hint: it isn’t that he believes in small gov’t or less taxes).
“The first duty of a [...]

I saw this on National Review Online and thought I’d pass it along.  Dems say the SEC enforcement action against Goldman Sachs has nothing to do with politics, which makes this ad buy surprisingly coincidental. 

I like to get in the head of the “other side” - for example, when I was an auditor, I wanted to figure out what client management was thinking when they chose not to record a liability for an obvious loan, or when I took my cell phone back to Verizon within their “30-day No [...]

When using reply to all, before you hit the send button, think “does everyone I’m sending this to want to hear about the private conversation I am about to have with this person?”  The answer is probably no.  This applies to Facebook as well.  If someone sends out a message to a bunch of people [...]

I have been a cheerleader for HSAs for a while now and this Op-Ed by Mitch Daniels, govenor of Indiana, is illustrative of the benefits of an HSA plan put in practice.
Here’s a snippet:
When I was elected governor of Indiana five years ago, I asked that a consumer-directed health insurance option, or Health Savings Account [...]

Gloria Allred, feminist, representing a porn star who is the mistress of Tiger Woods who is upset that she wasn’t treated fairly by Tiger….  You’re the mistress.  Dont you sorta know that going into an affair?
 

This post from Keith Hennessey is a bit long, but worth reading.  He dissects Obama’s blame game regarding our deficit.  http://keithhennessey.com/2010/02/04/need-future-focus/
“It is strange for a President to complain repeatedly about ten-year old policies and then not propose to change them.”

This was an interesting and scary article I just read on Yahoo! Finance.  It says that social security is finally bringing in less money than it’s paying out.  And to add to that, because people’s homes and stock portfolios have depreciated so much, social security has become a much more critical piece of elderly people’s [...]