While eating lunch and idly scanning subtitles of today's broadcast of golf's PGA Championship, I saw an analyst make an interesting claim. He said that the best putters in professional golf take three putts to get the ball in the hole ... Go to Full Article

Business is filled with sports analogies. I myself made one via twitter last week. But I prefer card games when it comes to business analogies. I blogged about the poker analogy early in the days of this blog. And recently,... Go to Full Article

On today's broadcast of golf's PGA Championship an analyst made an interesting claim. He said that the best putters in professional golf take three putts to get the ball in the hole more often than does the average golfer. Why? ... Go to Full Article

I wrote a piece on my new ‘political blog’ titled, “Dvorak: US CIO Kundra is a Phoney?“ Basically a repost of Dvorak’s own post about our CIO found here. Go to Full Article

Today on CNBC we had Nouriel Roubini and Nassim Taleb together again. Near as I can tell, we survived -- but I may be wrong. I haven’t been outside in a while. Somewhat more seriously, I’m with Taleb (and Roubini) on the need to reduce ... Go to Full Article

I was on the early (really early) flight from Toronto to Newark this morning. When we landed, the standard, please make sure you take all your personal belongings with you, commentary was blurted out to everybody. ... Go to Full Article

I just had a great conversation with a friend that covered, among many things, email marketing and how broken it really is. Then I come home and open up my email, finding this. 200908121237.jpg. Email marketing is so fundamentally ... Go to Full Article

Medicare and Medicaid are bankrupting the Federal AND state governments… which begs the question why anyone would propose what is essentially more Medicare and Medicaid? Why not fix Medicare before attempting to restructure 17% of the ... Go to Full Article

Q: How do you tell the introverted statistician from an extroverted statistician? A: The extroverted statistician is the one staring at the other person's shoes. . Stats Joke: Introverted Statisticians ... Go to Full Article

Interest rates in premodern Amsterdam (Source); The price of anarchy in basketball (arXiv); The financial arithmetic of Woodstock (Breakingviews); Post-crash market dynamics (Hussman); California sets interim bond sale to cover ... Go to Full Article

Diversions: Mythbusting with Jamie and Adam. By Paul Kedrosky · Friday, August 14, 2009 ·. Lengthy recent interview with the Mythbusters guys, Jamie and Adam. A worth watching discussion of what you learn by blowing things up. ... Go to Full Article

China and the next oil shock (Source); FDA and 'Big Chicken' Battle Over Antibiotics (Source); Internet.com Assets go for $18m. Biggest domain sale ever? (Source); Silicon Valley Bank Says Startups Have Easier Time Paying Bills (Source) ... Go to Full Article

With sugar spiking to all-time highs, there is a potential behavioral upside. Much as happened with higher oil prices, which changed driving behavior, higher sugar prices could materially change people's behavior, steering them away ... Go to Full Article

The IPO of NHPC has seen investors applying for shares worth a staggering Rs 1.42 lakh crore. The initial public offer (IPO) of government owned hydro power generation firm NHPC has seen investors applying for shares worth a staggering ... Go to Full Article

I recently got this email sent by an office assistant to every employee in her company. I found it inspiring. People like the person behind this email make a difference between something remarkable and something ordinary. ... Go to Full Article