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Entries for February, 2008

Aggressive Gets Aggressive Again

After the Aggressive system moved heavily to cash on the last update four weeks ago, and not too coincidentally took a hammering on some of the stocks it retained!, both screens are once again finding full slates of qualifiers, and the system is moving to 100% long. [read more …]

Saturn’s Moon Once Had Dinosaurs?

Saturn’s moon Titan has oil on it!
… data from the Cassini probe orbiting Saturn has shown that the ringed planet’s moon has “hundreds of times more liquid hydrocarbons than all the known oil and natural gas reserves on Earth,” according to research reported in the Geophysical Research Letters.
So when did Titan have dinosaurs?
Or is it […]

Start With Flawed Assumptions, Ask Wrong Questions, Get Wrong Answers

If you start with a flawed assumption, you will wind up asking the wrong questions, and getting the wrong answers. Let’s say you start with the assumption that GDP is a somewhat accurate measure of economic output. Then you might start asking questions about recessions, whether the new stimulus plan will prevent a […]

Congressional Earmarks, Hugo Chavez, and the State Lottery

I bet you didn’t know that Congressional Earmarks, Hugo Chavez, and the State Lottery were all related, did you? Heck, they might not know it, either, but they all have a common thread running through them.
Congressional Earmarking is the process by which “pork” is allocated to the various districts. A road project here, […]

Wally and the Beaver, Part Two?

Some of us are old enough to remember the original “Wally and the Beaver,” who got shellacked pretty strongly in 1984. It’s a fascinating study in the workings of the Electoral College (the big brother of the Delegate system in the primaries) to realize that, while winning 40.6% of the popular vote, Mondale-Ferraro […]