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Montgomery County Agricultural Fair Grandstand Coupon

I’ll be using this for demolition derby, but you can use for whatever and avoid having to provide your e-mail address.

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2009 08 20 Jason Other Comments (0)

Trustbusting (To the Brooklyn Posse: TR was the Best)

Today’s NYT discusses some of the parts of Geithner’s new regulatory plan, including this paragraph from the article:

If regulators decided that a company had become “too big to fail,” as was the case with A.I.G. in September, they would subject it to much stricter capital requirements than smaller rivals and much closer scrutiny of its [...]

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2009 03 26 Jason Comments (0)

Disaster for the Big Mac Index (probably not)

The economy is so bad, even Big Macs are on sale (see photo):

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2009 01 26 Jason Comments (0)

Money Velocity

Money velocity. Wow. I can’t believe I just learned about this, and I suspect that political scientists and political economists are–once again–way off in their data choices. Several of my own past projects would benefit from redoing the analysis with money velocity rather than GNP, etc.

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2008 12 30 Jason Social Science Comments (0)

Inequality in the United States and Its Implications

The United Nations released its 2008 State of the World’s Cities report, which in past years has been an excellent source about demographic shifts around the world. Unfortunately, the United Nations decides to charge people a ridiculous amount ($44) for the report rather than making it available at an affordable (or even free) rate.
Based on [...]

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2008 10 23 Jason Comments (0)

More City Paper Bashing, This Time From The City Paper

Just when you though the Washington City Paper couldn’t get any worse, and particularly amusing in light of my Doonesbury post yesterday, the City Paper’s parent company goes and declares bankruptcy. For some of the basics, head to DC’s most-read-and-least-qualified blog, the DCist.
DC journalism is almost as bad as the city’s summers.

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2008 09 30 Jason Comments (0)

A Picture is Worth A…Pointed “You’re Oblivious”

I know, and have known, a ton of journalists, and none of them realize the total calamity afflicting their industry. And even if they did, I know they wouldn’t have a clue as to what to do, either personally or to save their industry. And yet, they manage to laugh at the blindness of airline [...]

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2008 09 29 Jason Comments (0)

MySpace.com Backlash

I meant to post a note about the backlash against MySpace.com, which I have written about before, in early February but I forgot. Wired, however, has not, and they include an article about the backlash and a guide for parents.
While in Orlando, I heard on CNBC that MySpace.com subscriber growth was 165,000+ per month, and [...]

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2008 07 13 Jason Other
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Unnoticed Impact of the US Recession

Yes, we’re in a recession. And it’s going to get a whole lot worse.
But the main reason I post is to send readers through the Internets to a Grace Undressed-a well-written and in-depth blog by a stripper, which I came across probably via BoingBoing-post on how strippers are massively crunched in the current economic situation. [...]

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2008 07 04 Jason Comments (0)

Fast-Quick Internet Meets Slow-Conservative Buying

I am catching up on last week’s Economist and came across a small article on Blue Nile, an online middle-man for jewelry sales (mostly engagement rings). I remember when Blue Nile launched in the late 1990s for a couple reasons, including the fact that it was crazy you could buy high-end jewelry online. Yes, I [...]

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2008 03 29 Jason Tech Comments (0)