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  1. We're number 37! Great video. And guess who's number one... http://tinyurl.com/yetqruy
  2. 700+ exellent instructional videos on math, physics, banking and money, credit crisis, finance. All free. http://tinyurl.com/cy9w2r
  3. Causes and consequences of the oil price shock of 2007-08, from James Hamilton: http://snipurl.com/fjc34.
  4. This is interesting: http://snipurl.com/fakh2. Analogous to: if you never let a forest burn, eventually you get the mother of all fires.
  5. Nano-structured "super thermite" explosive may have been present in WTC dust: http://snipurl.com/fahd5. Dispositive? I have no idea.
  6. Goldman Sachs paid Larry Summers $135,000 for giving a speech. Outrageous, you say. But there's more to it: http://swturl.com/88zr (jk)
  7. Economic crisis: the bigger picture, the deeper causes, here: http://tinyurl.com/dybxrd. Highly recommended.
  8. Betcha can't watch this without smiling: http://tinyurl.com/djv25r
  9. Religion makes (some) people do crazy things. http://tinyurl.com/da38o7
  10. Karzai signs Afghan law legalizing rape in marriage. Women cannot leave the house without a male's permission. http://tinyurl.com/cdq99s
  11. Thought for today: if you lose 50% and then gain 50%, you don't wind up back where you started.
  12. Simon Johnson on On Point http://tinyurl.com/cuf98k, based on his article http://tinyurl.com/da7ult. Financial oligarchs are running the US.
  13. Calculated Risk: 20 graphs of recent economic activity - http://tinyurl.com/d86bwo. Not pretty. Scroll down for new def'n of "red states."
  14. Robert Scheer on "Obama's Toxic Advisors" - http://tinyurl.com/ckw4qo. The same recycled oligarchs who broke the system in the first place.
  15. Hilarious article on Iceland's meltdown:http://tinyurl.com/cbfpw3. Like Matt Taibbi, only smarter. Bottom line re crisis: it's a male thing.
  16. Reading Robert Skidelsky's life of Keynes: http://tinyurl.com/ctdbdw. A wonderful book, endlessly fascinating.
  17. "Structural adjustment" coming home to roost. Sucking the Treasury dry. Read it and weep: http://tinyurl.com/ccedr8
  18. Must proofread. Meant to say, Like mothers everywhere ask...
  19. Like mothers every ask, what if it told you to drive off a cliff? Would you? Well, yes, apparently: http://tinyurl.com/cmcubv
  20. @ktenney That last was referring to the antipodemap. Are replies tied to tweets? Doesn't seem so.