John Stossel on Thanksgiving

I just ran across this over at Fox. Stossel is a brilliant guy, and he's right on the money about private property.

Private property use, also, reflects risk and uncertainty. If you are uncertain about the future past some degree, you would wait to invest your private property in future endeavors. Sound familiar?

Chronicle of Higher Ed on Cheating

Steve Cotten pointed me to a recent article in The Chronicle of Higher Ed about cheating and how some people do it for a living. Check this out when you get time.

OK, who saw this coming?

UAW cleans up on sale of new GM stock. (Click on title)

No way!

More on the saga as it comes to light. No surprises from GM, though.

Latest on the DREAM Act

Hold on there folks, the DREAM may still be alive. Some lawmakers are still planning to push for the DREAM Act, evidently.

Good luck on that.

Edupunk reference

Check out this egghead discourse on the future of higher ed. Click on title, iPad don't do paste for an insert.

My comments are listed under Joe Momma - I guess "Doc Finance" was taken. Squatters!

Some of my insightful comments (later)

Mortgage crisis gets really squirrely

Dr. Ed Waller sent me a linky today with a few references on the robosigning fiasco. At AOL. Click on title - iPad don't hardly do Control -V.

Also, you might want to look up the term "rescue fantasy" over at Wikipedia. We gotta be careful not to let our warm wishes spill into our interpretation on this- most folks still owe their mortgage, regardless of robosigning. Sorry.

Details of GM IPO emerge

Reuters has some details today of the pending GM IPO, here. It stands to be the largest ever.

If you were an investor, looking at how the last group of investors were treated, would you invest in GM? If you were a pension or mutual fund manager or advisor, charged with maintaining a "prudent person" standard in your portfolio, could you recommend GM stock?

Bloomberg's article is here.