Monday, January 30, 2012

The Devil's Candy -- movie bombs and college budgets

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The recent discussion of higher education costs got me thinking about other spiraling budgets and about one of my favorite case studies on ...

Ddulite Investors

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[for a definition of ddulite click here ] I started out in the banking industry. My company used to broadly recruit from other banks so we...
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Sunday, January 29, 2012

Nightmare Travel week approaching

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There may be light blogging for the next 10 days or so.

California has good universities!

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From the Academic rankings of world universities : 1. Harvard University (private) 2. Stanford University (private) 3. Massachusetts I...

Not sure Dean Dad caught the gist

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Via Joseph , Dean Dad has the following reaction to recent comments by President Obama: President Obama has put higher education “on notice...
Saturday, January 28, 2012

I think we need to understand college cost structures better

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This post (in the midst of a long, long single page blog) was very interesting: College Costs and Quality? I rather suspect that my exp...
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Friday, January 27, 2012

I was surprised by the lack of comments on this

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Dean Dad: President Obama has put higher education “on notice” that if we keep raising tuition, we’ll get our public funding cut. To w...

Gaming

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Mark has a sideline as a professional game designer and I am an avid follower of role-playing games.  So while we rarely do gaming posts, I ...
Wednesday, January 25, 2012

I am confused about carried interest

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Does anybody have a good reason for the carried interest tax exemption?  It seems to entirely benefit a group that already has very large in...
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Monday, January 23, 2012

Admittedly an extreme case

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One of my biggest objections to the wildly popular contrarian school of journalism is the way that, rather than following a line of reasoni...
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Sunday, January 22, 2012

Student Loans and Emergencies

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From the Incidental Economist's comment section: As a resident manager of David’s House , a beautiful private nonprofit home away fro...
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Tax Reform

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I am normally not the biggest fan of Greg Mankiw as I am concerned that his anti-tax stance reduces the focus on how we can use a strong tax...
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Saturday, January 21, 2012

Why I believe in safety nets

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Megan McArdle argues: Who among the parents fighting so hard to get their kids into a good school is going to volunteer to have their kid...
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Friday, January 20, 2012

Copyrights and patents are intrusive government regulations

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They are monopolies that restrict the rights of businesses to make and sell certain products. What's more, they're built around non-...
Thursday, January 19, 2012

Works moved out of the public domain?

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Seriously? The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld a federal law that restored copyright protection to works that had entered the public ...