Category Archives: The Market

Financial Trading Markets Actually Giant Botnets

    It’s like a botnet worm. Only, instead of eating data it erases market value. …the Dow Jones stock index fell 600 points in just 6 minutes. Its nadir represented the deepest single-day decline in that market’s 114-year history… the “flash crash,” as it came to be known, was big, unexpected and scary —Continue reading “Financial Trading Markets Actually Giant Botnets”

How Blue America Subsidizes Red America

  I don’t really understand this chart, but I get the idea behind it. I’d also like to see someone illustrate the correlation between state-by-state ideology against urban versus rural population. A very neat Aaron Carroll chart shows that, on average, conservative states feature more “dependency” on federal programs than do liberal ones. via HowContinue reading “How Blue America Subsidizes Red America”