"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
Hmmm, not sure what to make of this. The Arcimote Pulse might make a good city car for doing errands with but the current lead-acid battery version has a range of just 40 miles. Future lithium-ion versions will go 80-100…
But rather than act like adults, the legislature, governor, and assorted politicos and special interests instead are mostly howling about the Blue Meanies on the other side who are blocking progress. Furloughs (mandatory pay cuts) have been ordered by Schwarzenegger…
The Arctic is becoming ice free. This is new. And the Antarctic is becoming icier. However, there’s a good reason that ‘climate change’ is a better term than ‘global warming’. It implies that the results will vary depending on where…
So says Nassin “Black Swan” Taleb in Businessweek. The problem is getting runaway. It’s becoming a pure Ponzi scheme. It’s very nonlinear: You need more and more debt just to stay where you are. And what broke [convicted financier Bernard]…
Infographic by The Big Picture Ritholtz explains it in a humongous graphic.(Click to view it full-sized.) Basically, it’s bait and switch. Customers call for bullion and get pushed into collectible gold where the spreads and commissions are much higher (plus…