Sunday, May 2, 2010

Sunday Morning Links

1 in 8 to cut cable and satellite in 2010

Cook your meat in a beer cooler. Definitely planning on trying this out.

Huge money in bankruptcy.

Slate lets you test your media diet.

Via Ezra Klein, the Democrats' immigration proposal.

How cable companies will keep making money even as we shift to online content.

Heather MacDonald at City Journal on Arizona's new immigration law.

Saturday, May 1, 2010

Saturday Morning Links

Vogue internship auctioned for $40K.

Interfluidity on Goldman. "A knife fight is not a mediation."

Why Steve Jobs really hates Flash.

Congressional Research Service paper on derivatives. One of my favorite things to do is listen to people rant and rave about Wall Street and how we need to regulate CDOs, CDSs, and derivatives and then ask them "What's a derivative?" Hilarity ensues.

How money is made through television.

Begging the question.

Wall Street responds. "We aren’t dinosaurs. We are smarter and more vicious than that, and we are going to survive." Yawn.