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Forget FEMA, rely on Wal-Mart & Home Depot in a disaster
ByDerekSteven Horwitz, a professor of economics at St. Lawrence University, published a study that shows why local businesses are more effective in assisting in an emergency than the federal government. The study says Wal-Mart, Home Depot and Lowe’s made use of their local knowledge about supply chains, infrastructure, decision makers and other resources to provide…
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Stern realizes he’s not as cool as he thought he was
ByDerekJust saw this on USA Today… “I was just at my psychiatrist and I said, ‘I just got great news: We hit the 4 million mark. And I’m angry. It should be 20 million,’” Stern says in the magazine, on newsstands Monday. “It’s insulting to me that everyone hasn’t come with me. I take it…
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No doubt
ByDerekAnd people wonder how anyone can doubt the “crisis” of global warming… The Washington Post reviews the work of top United Nations scientists, November 20: “The United Nations’ top AIDS scientists plan to acknowledge this week that they have long overestimated both the size and the course of the epidemic, which they now believe has…
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Aquarama headed to Greece?
ByDerekCommenter “Wayne” reports, and corroborated by boatnerd.com, that the Aquarama has been sold and is headed to Greece to fulfill it’s prior destiny to be converted into a floating casino. That would be a bit ironic, seeing as that’s what it’s owners wanted for it all along, but governmental red tape prevented it from ever…
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The Spy Hunter G8
ByDerekPontiac made a commercial for the new G8 based on the old Spy Hunter game, one of my all time favorites. Nice!
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Market madness
ByDerekI haven’t done much financial blogging lately, but today I have a good reason to. The stock market rallied a bit today, and everything in my portfolio was up… except for Valero (VLO) and Nighthawk Radiology (NHWK). Valero I can understand. Oil prices fell a bit, and so the oil refiners will follow. But Nighthawk…
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