Who Dat Gonna Beat Them Saints?

by AK on February 7, 2010

in New Orleans, Sports

It ain’t going to be the Colts.

Go Saints Go.

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Let’s assume climate change as a direct result of human actions over the past 2 centuries is a fact.

Here’s the problem: top scientists concede that even if the entire world stopped ALL greenhouse gas emissions today the planet will continue to heat up for many years (I’ve heard numbers ranging from 50 to 300 years). [1] [click to continue…]

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A good way to check the accuracy of reported earnings.

February 3, 2010

If you’re a value investor you probably use some sort of average of a company’s earnings history (7 or 10 years for example) to come up with an initial number for the company’s normal earning power in any given year.
If you use the company’s reported earnings figures to derive your average and want to check [...]

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Free PDF of Ludwig von Mises’ “Human Action: A Treatise on Economics.”

January 31, 2010

You can download a PDF file of the scholar’s edition of von Mises’ Human Action (all 950 pages) from the Ludwig von Mises Institute’s website at:
http://mises.org/Books/HumanActionScholars.pdf

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“It is not things themselves that trouble us, but our thoughts about those things.”

January 21, 2010

-Epictetus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epictetus

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At least in our current health care system you have the option to go bankrupt and live.

December 17, 2009

It is telling that the current healthcare debate is framed in terms of what will or will not be good for certain “groups” of people in society and not for individuals.
Senator Tom Coburn (R-Oklahoma), a physician, wrote an excellent op-ed in The Wall Street Journal today that provides a specific example of how health care [...]

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