School has started again.  Think how different it is now compared to when you were a kid …

Here are some of the posts that caught my eye. Hope you find something interesting.

Lighter Links:

• Ayn
  Rand Joins the Ticket. Paul Ryan and the Influence of Ayn Rand (NewYorker)
• The
  'Busy' Trap. (Opinionator – NYTimes.com)
• Why
  India Wins So Few Olympic Medals. Neither the Will Nor the Cash
  (TheAtlantic)
• LinkedIn's
  Social Mapping Tool. Who Influences Your Career? (Forbes)
• Your
  E-Book Is Reading You. Reading is no longer solitary or private. (WSJ)

Trading Links:

• Can
  the stock market rally last through the 2012 election? (Futuresmag)
• Singapore's
  Message for Today's America – The Globalist. (TheGlobalist)
• American Airlines & US Airways Agree to Talk Merger. (DallasMorningNews)
• Social
  Benefits of High Frequency Trading. (FinancialTimes) 
• Book
  Review: Is Edward Conard's Unintended Consequences a Scary Preview of Mitt
  Romney's Economic Policies? (Forbes)