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Paul Kedrosky’s Infectious Greed

Yeah, It’s a Banker’s Dozen

Nice: /via UD

Copyright vs Patents Over Time in Supreme Court Decisions

Copyright vs patents over time in US Supreme Court decisions: /via LLE

Google Zeitgeist 2011

Excellent news in the Google Zeitgeist 2011 wrapup of what people searched for (i.e. cared about) in 2011: I knew even less than usual about what the hell these things were.

GoPro HD: Shotgun Barrels at Pipeline

Take in in HD and blow it to full-screen: Simply sublime Go Pro HD footage of shooting barrels at Pipeline. Incredible stuff.

Twitter Digest: 2011-12-14

G&M: Dennis Gartman out of gold, proclaims ‘death of a bull’: http://t.co/Tqt4jMTG # Since touching $15.20 on Nov 28, GRPN has run like scared couponing cat, now up 56%. # Spoke to White House official about this last week, & passing it along: Entrepreneurs in Residence at USCIS. Neat idea. http://t.co/r2N6P070 # More background on...

US Tax Rates in Three Graphs. Not Boring. Really.

Tax policy is numbingly boring, of course, but in his latest JPM note Michael Cembalest sneaks up on the subject with the following three graphs. While they don’t settle the issue of marginal tax rates, they do provide a useful context for why we can’t agree on whether US marginal tax rates are too high,...

Gundlach’s Latest Musings

The latest from Jeffrey Gundlach / via ZH 12-13-11 JEG Webcast Have and Have Nots – FINAL //

US Oil Independence

This is more than a little mischievous, but it’s at least worth knowing that the US is newly a net exporter in finished oil products. /via Bloomberg

Twitter Digest: 2011-12-13

The fight to save Cooper Union http://t.co/k0YOEz55 # JJS the new DFW http://t.co/fI354a5e # Remember five years ago when I said I hated T-W Roadrunner for its absence of status, flaky service, etc? Update: Still do. # New Scientist: The rise and fall and rise of peer-to-peer lending – http://t.co/HBIiLRty # It's like the entire...

Twitter Digest: 2011-12-12

Such a strange feeling in the age of twitter, email, & realtime to discover a former colleague died a month ago. # It takes just one early chart of aggregate debt, money supply, etc not normalized against GDP before I exit presentations. # Another life goal completed: I'm in the Aspen Times today – http://t.co/hei7lnJ6...

Twitter Digest: 2011-12-11

Wonderful: Vintage ski photos from the Times archive of a snowy bygone era: http://t.co/MrAL7a1x # Felix Zulauf on 2012: Sovereign defaults ahead http://t.co/62DqvOA4 # During high UK winds this week, a runaway trampoline. ("Omigod, trampoline! Trampoline!" shd be a ringtone.) http://t.co/aHjSRe86 # Sex, Insider Trading and the First U.S. Financial Panic – http://t.co/eAQe0OSv # Video:...

Cloud Services Spending Ahead

From UBS, big numbers in cloud services spending growth ahead: