Comments on: Links 10/8/08 http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2008/10/links-10808.html Sun, 22 Nov 2009 15:18:28 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: donna http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2008/10/links-10808.html#comment-20146 donna Wed, 08 Oct 2008 17:47:00 +0000 http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2008/10/links-10808/#comment-20146 Anonymous,<br/><br/>try cute overload for your daily dose of cuteness. Great stuff. There's also daily kitten and puppy, I can has cheezburger, lots of other cute sites... Anonymous,

try cute overload for your daily dose of cuteness. Great stuff. There’s also daily kitten and puppy, I can has cheezburger, lots of other cute sites…

]]> By: locust http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2008/10/links-10808.html#comment-20129 locust Wed, 08 Oct 2008 16:05:00 +0000 http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2008/10/links-10808/#comment-20129 Excerpt from Thoma:<br/><br/><i>Over the late twentieth century, the financial sector grew rapidly, and attracted higher skilled workers at an increasing rate.</i><br/><br/>By "higher skilled workers" does the author mean people with an MBA? Just because someone managed to get an MBA doesn't make them skilled, intelligent or talented. I look around today and I see an enormous amount of mediocrity that's been rewarded with ridiculous sums of money and as far as I can tell, skill has very little to do with it. Excerpt from Thoma:

Over the late twentieth century, the financial sector grew rapidly, and attracted higher skilled workers at an increasing rate.

By “higher skilled workers” does the author mean people with an MBA? Just because someone managed to get an MBA doesn’t make them skilled, intelligent or talented. I look around today and I see an enormous amount of mediocrity that’s been rewarded with ridiculous sums of money and as far as I can tell, skill has very little to do with it.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2008/10/links-10808.html#comment-20124 Anonymous Wed, 08 Oct 2008 15:09:00 +0000 http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2008/10/links-10808/#comment-20124 It would be a great stress reliever to have a link for all the pictures in the section, antidote du jour. The pictures are cute. It would be a great stress reliever to have a link for all the pictures in the section, antidote du jour. The pictures are cute.

]]> By: River http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2008/10/links-10808.html#comment-20118 River Wed, 08 Oct 2008 14:21:00 +0000 http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2008/10/links-10808/#comment-20118 Squeek Blab had the alien on this morning...Forbes was the guest host and his minders have taught him how to blink...Must have reprogrammed his blink sub routine.<br/><br/>Squeek Blab guests were all pushing to get rid of the 'archaic mark to market model' for banks. <br/><br/>Such a move would fix everything, they said. I suppose all price discovery would be taken care of by the treasury. The PPT could be expanded to employ all those working the pits...We could tune in each morning to see if we bet the right way for the day. <br/><br/>Can't make this stuff up... Squeek Blab had the alien on this morning…Forbes was the guest host and his minders have taught him how to blink…Must have reprogrammed his blink sub routine.

Squeek Blab guests were all pushing to get rid of the ‘archaic mark to market model’ for banks.

Such a move would fix everything, they said. I suppose all price discovery would be taken care of by the treasury. The PPT could be expanded to employ all those working the pits…We could tune in each morning to see if we bet the right way for the day.

Can’t make this stuff up…

]]> By: Dave Raithel http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2008/10/links-10808.html#comment-20105 Dave Raithel Wed, 08 Oct 2008 13:17:00 +0000 http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2008/10/links-10808/#comment-20105 Bubble Wages: Leave it to economists to obscure a simple point and rediscover the obvious. A little sociology might help their "science." Bubble Wages: Leave it to economists to obscure a simple point and rediscover the obvious. A little sociology might help their “science.”

]]> By: Chris http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2008/10/links-10808.html#comment-20097 Chris Wed, 08 Oct 2008 12:56:00 +0000 http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2008/10/links-10808/#comment-20097 On the Stump?<br/>The Stump Speech?<br/>Tell me the one about the baby ducks again.<br/>We got up here, now tell me how we're going to get down again.<br/>We climbed to the top, there was nothing here!<br/>Where did they hide that looking glass? On the Stump?
The Stump Speech?
Tell me the one about the baby ducks again.
We got up here, now tell me how we’re going to get down again.
We climbed to the top, there was nothing here!
Where did they hide that looking glass?

]]> By: River http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2008/10/links-10808.html#comment-20092 River Wed, 08 Oct 2008 11:57:00 +0000 http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2008/10/links-10808/#comment-20092 Yves, this a little off topic but might be of some interest to readers that appreciate gloom and doom. You have a great site, please keep up the good work...<br/><br/>Dinninger has one of his darkest predictions ever posted today:<br/><br/>S&P to 150 and then flatlines, oil to $20 with few American buyers, trucking industry collapsing, hunger, riots, uhhh...to characterize, the 187 horsemen of the apocolypse...maybe more. <br/><br/>To avoid all this mayhem is simple enough, according to Denninger...stop watching American Idol, the NFL and NASCAR. If Ben and Hank had only known they could have had Shrub take this stuff off TV.<br/><br/>http://market-ticker.denninger.net/ Yves, this a little off topic but might be of some interest to readers that appreciate gloom and doom. You have a great site, please keep up the good work…

Dinninger has one of his darkest predictions ever posted today:

S&P to 150 and then flatlines, oil to $20 with few American buyers, trucking industry collapsing, hunger, riots, uhhh…to characterize, the 187 horsemen of the apocolypse…maybe more.

To avoid all this mayhem is simple enough, according to Denninger…stop watching American Idol, the NFL and NASCAR. If Ben and Hank had only known they could have had Shrub take this stuff off TV.

http://market-ticker.denninger.net/

]]> By: dearieme http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2008/10/links-10808.html#comment-20090 dearieme Wed, 08 Oct 2008 11:47:00 +0000 http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2008/10/links-10808/#comment-20090 "Great question, but why is it being asked only now?" Because the "science" of economics has only one measuring instrument - the retrospectoscope. “Great question, but why is it being asked only now?” Because the “science” of economics has only one measuring instrument – the retrospectoscope.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2008/10/links-10808.html#comment-20087 Anonymous Wed, 08 Oct 2008 11:16:00 +0000 http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2008/10/links-10808/#comment-20087 BAM<br/><br/>I like it better when the cook does it. BAM

I like it better when the cook does it.

]]> By: russell1200 http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2008/10/links-10808.html#comment-20079 russell1200 Wed, 08 Oct 2008 09:33:00 +0000 http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2008/10/links-10808/#comment-20079 I am curious as to what the experience of retailers has been with data mining. I am curious as to what the experience of retailers has been with data mining.

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