Links: Hadron Collider Wipes Out Subprime, Oil Ads, etc.

Today’s looking like another meeting-fest, so a few quick links that others may find interesting:

  • What is the probability of the Large Hadron Collider destroying the universe? (Overcoming Bias)
  • Consumers report feeling worse now than in other deeper economic downturns. Why? (WashPost)
  • Big consumer products companies like P&G still lag badly in online ad spending (WashPost)
  • Oil industry ad spending is up a whopping 18% y-o-y. Gosh, I wonder why (WSJ)
  • U.S. retail gasoline purchases fell 4.7% y-o-y last week (MasterCard)
  • 2009 U.S. airline traffic looks like it be back to 1997 levels, post the current cuts (Rick Seaney)
  • Current aircraft taxi times now exceed pre-9/11 (BTS)
  • Strange story of ten-year-old boy with Tourette’s/OCD who thought 9/11 is his fault for not walking on a white mark on road (Neurocase)
  • Is LinkedIn worth $1-billion? I know that I’m thinking more like $1.117b (GigaOm)
  • Price gouging as a rational response to gas hoarding (FT)
  • Prices of rare metals — many from Africa — are soaring because of airlines hunting for lightweight super-alloys (FT)

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  1. Quants Ate My Subprime
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  3. Subprime Crisis Claims California: Fiscal Emergency to be Declared
  4. Subprime: 61 Economists Agree on Something!
  5. Catching Up: Bernanke, Subprime Sophistry, S&P Valuation, etc.