The Financial Times on the Transportation Safety Agency and what it says about the U.S., “The Joy of Travel”. If you’re pressed for time, just read the 4th and 5th paragraphs. Those are the two I was going to excerpt here, but the FT warns against cutting & pasting from its articles.

– Paul Tudor Jones’s investor letter, via Dealbreaker. Excerpt:
The root cause of the unemployment woes is quite obvious. In the United States alone, in the last two decades, nearly six million jobs in manufacturing have been lost overseas. This equates to nearly four percentage points of the
current 9.7%
[...]
How did we get here? On [...]

Below is a guest post by Short Screen member and occasional commenter here MonkeyPilot, who is a research scientist in the pharmaceutical industry. I had asked him about a stock called BioTime, on behalf of new Short Screen member Market_Sniper, who owns it. MonkeyPilot offered his opinion on BioTime and used it as a jumping-off [...]

Sorry for the light blogging over the last week or so. I’ve been interacting with some a$$holes recently, which has been a little draining.
14 Short Ideas for Next [i.e., this] week
Seeking Alpha contributor Kapitall wrote this article about using the combination of Short Screen’s screener and Audit Integrity’s Accounting and Governance Risk (AGR) rating [...]

When I was in grade school, occasionally the cafeteria would have make-your-own peanut butter & jelly day. “Crowd sourcing” wasn’t a gleam in any neoligist’s1 eye back then, but it followed a similar general idea: provide the basic components, and let the consumers put them together.
I thought I’d try something along those lines here. [...]

Fred Wilson, who I think has taken more vacations in the last year than Michelle Obama (off the top of my head, for Fred: Buenos Aires, Vail, Paris, someplace in Italy), hopes the Skype IPO will be the one to “get things going again.” Maybe. But when early investors (the smart/lucky money) are selling, someone [...]

Sorry for the recent dry spell here. The dieting & exercising had me a little tired last week (dropped another 5 lbs, after dropping none the previous week) and I wasn’t too motivated to blog. I started to write a “pox on both their houses” post about the set-to-expire Bush tax cuts, but lost interest [...]