MMM-128: Thermite Collapse
Running stop signs. Schwab commercials. S&P 381. Soccer jerseys. Thermite demonstration. Amendment X. Virtual Reality. Save your 401(k).
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Topics in this week’s show include:
- Please VOTE for MMM in Business at PodcastAwards.com. Apparently you can only vote once. Please do.
- Running stop signs? Cops want to go to court: It’s Overtime!
- Schwab commercials (rotoscoped): squint your eyes really tight and they go back to looking real again.
- The S&P 381 index?
- Soccer jersey changes: West Ham (XL), Manchester United (AIG) (include images)
- Lehman: The roughly 25,000 workers at Lehman, as well as many of the 60,000 at Merrill, face a double whammy: Many will lose their jobs and the companies’ plunging share privvces likely wiped out much of their net worth.At Lehman, stock and options could make up as much as 60 percent of an executive’s pay and share awards vested over five years. For most employees, stock and options were about 40 percent of pay, with the same vesting schedule.
- Constitution Minute: Amendment X
- Thomas Woods defines Constitution Day: (n.) Observed on September 17, the day on which federally funded American educational institutions, themselves unconstitutional, are unconstitutionally required to teach about the Constitution.
- Tool: Constitution for iPhone and iPod Touch
- Any tech ideas left? SekaiCamera
- Learning Earning: Your 401(k) will be a lot happer with 0.3% expenses than 2.0% expenses.
- Chevy Volt described on EconTalk
- Guru: Lew Rockwell. Read his article The Social Imperative of Sound Money.
- Thermite collapse on a car.
- New look to WSJ.com
Music from music.podshow.com:
ALTA PLAZA – XRAY DOGS
Money Control – Voide
Runaway Train – Under Feather
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