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Saturday November 5, 2011 Superman was created in 1932 and first appeared in DC Comics in 1938. Both dates are near the stock market lows of that decade. Batman first appeared in May 1939 in another DC Comics publication. Green Lantern showed up in July, 1940. The original Flash aka the Scarlet Speedster, appeared in…
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Sunday Oct 30, 2011 A student post requests a survey of the Occupy Wall Street group that does not depend on their own autobiography. Well here goes, how about the, yes, cooks for the OWS movement? The cooks complain that too many exconvicts and homeless are showing up, claiming to be OWS protestors, for the free range…
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Friday Oct 28, 2011 We began the semester reading Emerson's Essay on Self Reliance. Here is link to Kirk Tuck's blog http://visualsciencelab.blogspot.com/ THe post on 10/26/2011 is what I specifically want you to read. Now what does a blog on photography have to do with an Emerson Essay on Self Reliance, and particularly…
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Cycling Through HistoryHow Social Mood Determines Your Career SuccessOctober 25, 2011 / 3 PM CST / Main Campus One University Way / Room to be Announced Socionomics is a new predictive social science. It holds that mood is developed endogenously, outside and separate from other factors like the news. This is both contrary to conventional…
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Friday August 26, 2011 Last evening an alert student asked if I fell into the Keynes or Austrian school of economics. If these ames are unfamiliar to you, look it up in wikipedia at least. Keynes wrote the General Theory of the Employment of Money stating that government spending would boost an economy. We have…
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Thursday Aug 25, 2011 This article written by the CEO of an investment firm in Arkansas lists five suggestions for reigning in out of control regulations. Notice the last is that SARBOX has been a deterrent to companies going public, indeed many may increasingly go private just to escape costly compliance. I find most of these suggestions…
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Thursday August 25, 2011 I have written a weekly newspaper column since 1998. I noticed in today's WSJ Pat Caddell and Doug Schoen, both former Presidential pollsters, are noticing the rising preference for a party that is perceived to serve the public rather than itself. I visited this topic in this recent column High Noon…
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Thursday August 18, 2011 Two stars of yesterday meet again. Yes Merrill, once a lead underwriter and now the ward of the Walking Wounded Bank of America, holds the mortgage on, yes, Burt Reynolds home. Burt took out a mortgage on the house in 1993 after divorcing Loni Anderson. No doubt he thought he would…
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Sunday June 19, 2011 Socionomics Research in Motion is front page news, but for all the wrong reasons. This is a good example of just how fast things can change. Computer makers change over time, the Stars of the 1970s, DEC, Wang, and Control Data are unknown to today's Computer majors. Likewise, Lotus 123 and…
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