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Chevy Volt is ready to roll off the factory line. CNBC’s Phil LeBeau gives it a big thumbs up. @cbarger http://bit.ly/cV5ioJ # Powered by Twitter Tools.

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WSJ: Iphone on Verizon? Useful infographic on what it all means. http://bit.ly/9ExOHo # @24k either is fine – read this and let me know your thoughts: http://bit.ly/akqpE2 # @orenjacob so glad to hear all is well. drive carefully. # At the @thinkspace’s Thinktank Email Symposium. Good stuff. thanks to @alyssamag @pchee # Powered by Twitter […]

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While on vacation this summer, my son wanted to go to the local bookstore to get some beach reading. As he scoured the bookstore, my eye fell on a book I’d never heard of before, “A Conflict of Visions” by Thomas Sowell. The book claimed to address why “the same people line up on opposite […]

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@mellowknee approved! Thanks… # @24k Slots at CES available for sure. Let’s talk… # Powered by Twitter Tools.

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I’m enjoying “The Economic Crisis and How to Deal with it” — a riveting debate videoed in 2009 with some very heavy hitters in the world of finance and Economics. Participants include Paul Krugman, Nouriel Roubini, Robin Wells, George Soros, Senator Bill Bradley, and one of my favorites – Niall Ferguson. Lots of insights to […]

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My response to the most recent “blame Reagan” post from my friend Steve (collect the entire set!) One that borrows more than a few keystrokes from him… The Entitlement Strategy is a brilliantly effective (and profoundly irresponsible) political framework. It goes like this: Borrow money from our children and from abroad, and use the money […]

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Barry Ritholtz asserts that the essential political shift that’s occurring is that the conflict between right and left has shifted to become the people vs the corporate interests. He provides several specific examples of how those worlds collide, but left a couple out that are near and dear to my heart. Both fall under the […]

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Another example of how industry has apparently co-opted the regulators who are supposed to enforce the so called “Growth Management” Act of 1991 which was designed to prevent exactly what just happened to the Lake Washington School District. It seems that they’ve piled so many condos and homes into Redmond that the local schools are […]

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The Gallup Presidential Job Approval Center has an interactive dashboard that lets you compare the the approval ratings of post-WWII presidents at any comparable point in their presidencies. I’ve been tracking Obama’s approval against other presidents that were seriously “troubled” at this stage: Reagan, Carter, and Clinton. As those who were around at that time, […]

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