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Some Links for Your Weekend Reading
Doomsday Planning? Here are some of the posts that caught my eye. Hope you find something interesting. Lighter Links: The Five Cs of Opportunity Identification. (Harvard Business Review) SpaceX's Elon Musk: Your ticket to Mars? Half a million dollars. (LATimes) How IBM Is Watching How You Shop Online. (AllThingsD) Is Sleeping With
JibJab Lets You Star In Your Own Gangnam Style Video
Gangnam Style has about a billion views, recently surpassing Justin Bieber to become the number one most-viewed YouTube video of all time. So, of course, JibJab got in the game. They’ve launched a Gangnam Style video that you can personalize with your face (or a friend’s face). Here's what it looks like. Personalize funny
Making the Best of What Is
I had the perfect holiday gift planned. We were going to go to Cirque du Soleil's 'Kooza' show. Jennifer and Zach both missed an earlier show because they were out of town. Cirque is magical enough that I didn't mind seeing it again. So, when I saw a daily deal touting "Kazoo La La' at
Your Weekend Reading Linkfest
Lots of good stuff this week to distract you from the bad. Here are some of the posts that caught my eye. Hope you find something interesting. Lighter Links: Why it’s Not All Bad to Be Bored. (NYTimes) Alec Baldwin Puts the 'Fear' Into Christmas with Glengarry Christmas Spoof. (CX) Spotify's 10 Most
Strange as it may sound, U.S. Student Debt may be a catalyst to the next Crisis.
Pop Quiz! What line item is the largest asset on Uncle Sam’s balance sheet? U.S. Official Reserve Assets Total Mortgages Taxes Receivable Student Loans The correct answer, as of the Flow of Funds report for Q1 2012, is … Student Loans. The rapid growth in student debt has been a frequent topic in the financial press.
The Cost of Kidding Yourself
Creating the illusion of economic growth is easy if you can print money. It’s a prank you can play on an entire country. Cut the value of the currency in half and the economy’s size will appear to double. If it doesn’t, you’re in recession (whether you know it or not). Cavemen probably understood this