Maggie's Farm

Once again, posting early because busy in the AM. Outside of the finance biz, lots of work in NYC this year.

Just a photo suggestion for the fellas: If you have any $ left, and she is kind and gentle, worries about your contentment, speaks soothingly to you after a tough day, and takes good care of you, why not give her some diamonds?

Fairfield, CT: What sort of dumb town would put 14% of their pension assets into a single hedge fund? And to read about that Orthopedic group is pathetic. Even docs should know better than that. Are these guys going to do hips and knees into their 90s?

The return of the Old Left. Oh man, not again. How many times can they crawl out of their grave?

When the economy is good, taxes go up because supposedly people can afford them. When the economy is poor, taxes go up to cover govt deficits. See NYS for example. But people can't raise their incomes to cover them, can they? Where's the $ supposed to come from?

For shame! Illegally cutting down trees in a nature preserve. Are they legally culpable?

Secular decline of the semiconductor biz, plus the Kondratieff Wave Theory

Iowahawk: My Five-Year Plan Failed

Rangel Watch: Yet another Rangel scam. Will it ever end? No doubt there wil be more to come. It's the Rangel Circus.

Obama talks good, doesn't he? Let's watch the grammar, O, or we'll set a bad example.

Only for those without Econ 101. Coyote

Watching TV ruins womens' love lives. Want perfection? Try a different planet.

Nude models on strike in Paris. Some strikes are good.

Via Insty, this is both smart and wise (a rare combo):

MATTHEW KAMINSKI: Don’t expect global Obamania to last. “One hates to spoil a good party, but here’s a bet that’s far safer these days than a U.S. Treasury bill: Even with Obama at the White House, they won’t really like us any more than before. It’s not because America’s not a special country, a City upon a Hill, from the Pilgrims to Obama, the Blagojevich couple and other American horrors notwithstanding. It’s because it is. And as ever, our earnest assertion of our superior ontological uniqueness–not to mention its reality in and of itself–is exactly what always grated on the unfriendlies grouped together under the banner of anti-Americanism. . . . The departure of George Bush will change the mood music in America’s relations with the world, but–here’s the heartbreaker for our romantics–it won’t change how most people see America. Because, for ‘anti’ masses, it’s not really about us; it’s about them.”