- Sunday night. The calm before this week's market storm.
- Oh, and we have a Fed Meeting next week, too. "The two-day FOMC meeting that concludes on Wednesday should be relatively uneventful," said Richard Moody, chief economist at Mission Residential, in Austin Texas.
- Cafe Hayek with a great link in Government Does Not Know Better. Quick excerpt within an excerpt: The truth is: It is not government's function to create jobs. Putting people to work is easy, as demonstrated by Franklin D. Roosevelt's Depression-era Works Progress Administration (WPA), more accurately known as "WPA: We Piddle Around." The bigger challenge is to create wealth.
- Did the musicians Milli-Vanilli it at the inauguration? Well, Obama inherited lip-synching from the Bush administration, right?
- Is there an iPhone app for Texas Longhorns fans? Of course. Go Longhorns. As the section titles indicate, Go Longhorns brings together the latest news from multiple sources, schedule, and roster information for a number of the most popular UT sports teams. At the moment the sports covered are: football, mens and womens basketball, and baseball. There you go.
- When oil prices dipped, who out there thought that oil prices would stay low for very long? Big rise last week. OPEC has cut production and the world's economies won't be in a slump forever. In addition, won't borrowing another trillion bucks in stimulus weaken the dollar and send the price of oil (and commodities) back up? Just thinking out loud here.
- I thought about moving to Austin, Texas. At one time back in the day. Didn't do it, though. Maybe then I'd have wanted that app.
- Oh, another iPhone app? You can let your friends know that you scored with Booty Gong. Simply press the “Ring the Gong!” button and select whether to ring your own Gong or to notify a friend. Choose your friend’s mobile number and a text message will be sent to them notifying them of your experience.
