I’ve been blogging now for a year and in that time I’ve realized that this whole blogging exercise is a perfectly designed self-analysis of what is dominating my thought process.  If this truly was the ecclectic blog I’d like it to be, it would have a hell of a lot more on it than the multiple news headlines and sporadic music posts.  I just can’t get work out of my head.  I slave under the Tyranny of the Market and  it’s dominating my entire existence.  It’s time to self-medicate.

That said, here’s a quick round-up, but from this point forward, I’m going to try and mix it up around here.

MARKET

Relax people - Equity Pullbacks Part of Every Recovery

Bill Gross Likes Canada - Canada Among Top Choices, plus (read)

What does Bill Gates think? - Bill Gates Annual Letter

Spotting the Next Bubble - A Simple Style Rotation Model

Commodities?  - Scotia Commodity Price Index Rises 2.9%

BRIC? - BRIC IPOs See Record January at $6.7 Billion

Coal? - Peak Coal and Blackout

ECON

IMF likes what it sees - IMF More Upbeat on World Economy

But ‘upbeat’ is a relative term - UK Still Stuck in the Mud

And all is dependent on a complicit central rate - US Fed Keeps Rates Low

A voice in the wilderness that makes sense - Time to Raise Rates

The true price tag for ‘change’ - US Deficit to Hit $1.35 Trillion

The true effects of ‘change’ - Obama Seeks to Freeze Domestic Spending

Visual Lesson - Hayek vs. Keynes

CARBON TRADING

Still not sure about it - SEC Voting on Climate Change Risk Disclosure

This doesn’t help - Conning the Climate: Inside the Carbon-Trading Shell Game

Maybe tonight will tell - Why Canadians Should Care

RSIL (Random Shit I Liked)

Will he mention the TIME cover? - Obama’s First State of the Union Address

Here’s something cool - Bullet Trains in the US

More Apple Mania - Apple Unveils Its iPad

A Golden Age for Readers?

Collapse in TIME

DJ Contest!

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