Chyden Finance: profit from hypocrisy

The Orlando Sentinel reports, “When the White House releases his budget proposal Monday, there will be no money for the Constellation program that was supposed to return humans to the moon by 2020.”
The New York Times reports, “President Obama will… turn to private companies to launch astronauts into space when he unveils his budget request [...]

Tom Bevan writes in The Real Clear Politics blog, “President Obama is admitting the the health care bills passed by either the House or Senate (or both) contained provisions which were ’snuck in’ — presumably by Democratic members and perhaps on behalf of certain lobbyists — that would have in fact prevented people from keeping [...]

A People’s History of American Empire
by Howard Zinn (1922-2010)
Narrated by Viggo Mortensen

Invest accordingly.
CWE

EconStories.tv looks like it could become a brilliant site for entertaining introductions to economics.
Invest accordingly.
CWE

Recently, I pondered, “With the wind taken out of the sails of homeostasis deniers and peak oil disciples, it will be interesting to see which banner the busybody do-gooders regroup under.”
One hypothesis is public health. Already, government rulers in Chicago and New York City have banned various food items. It will be interesting [...]

Keep an eye on Bangladesh, home of Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus for his work promoting micro-credit.
Goldman Sachs — whose researchers invented the term BRIC in 2001 to mean that the leaders of Brazil, Russia, India, and China are “seeking to form a ‘political club’ or ‘alliance’”, in order to channel “their growing economic [...]

Remember how Osama bin Laden’s son said, in a strip club in Damascus, Syria — hrm?!? — that Osama bin Laden has achieved his goal of humbling America, that he probably won’t order any more attacks on America, and that he is worth more to the Americans alive than dead?
The Los Angeles Times reports that [...]

Voice of America reports, “A forecast by the United Nations climate science panel that Himalayan glaciers will melt by 2035 has become mired in controversy following revelations that it was not based on scientific studies.”
What is ‘controversial’ about the UN promulgating a myth based on a lie? Controversy requires that there be two opposing [...]

At the end of last year, I argued that managers who cannot program run the risk of being outshone by their younger, eagerer colleagues, and thus bypassed for promotions.
Apparently someone at MIT reads this blog.
Sikuli is a new graphical scripting language that enables individuals with basic computer skills to program using screen shots rather than [...]

While reading Carmen M. Reinhart & Kenneth S. Rogoff’s dry-but-delightful This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly, I came across a reference to David Hale’s “The Newfoundland Lesson” on page 83.
Newfoundland became the first self-governing dominion of the British Empire in 1855, and ceased to exist as a self-governing entity in 1934, after [...]