Tidbits on July 26, 2018
Bob Jensen
at Trinity University
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Online Video, Slide Shows, and Audio
How to Paint Like Kandinsky, Picasso, Warhol & More: A Video Series from the
Tate ---
http://www.openculture.com/2018/07/tates-series-bridges-gap-history-creation-show-artists-process-picasso-warhol.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
Watch Kraftwerk Perform a Real-Time Duet with a German Astronaut Living on
the International Space Station ---
http://www.openculture.com/2018/07/watch-kraftwerk-perform-real-time-duet-german-astronaut-living-international-space-station.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
The Inn on Sunset Hill (just down from our cottage) ---
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5cqUX0LcbU&t=9s
Free music downloads ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/music.htm
In the past I've provided links to various types of music and video available
free on the Web.
I created a page that summarizes those various links ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/music.htm
Hear the First Recorded Blues Song by an African American
Singer: Mamie Smith’s “Crazy Blues” (1920) ---
http://www.openculture.com/2018/07/hear-first-recorded-blues-song-african-american-singer-mamie-smiths-crazy-blues-1920.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
Web outfits like
Pandora, Foneshow, Stitcher, and Slacker broadcast portable and mobile content
that makes Sirius look overpriced and stodgy ---
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/mar2009/tc20090327_877363.htm?link_position=link2
Pandora (my favorite online music station) ---
www.pandora.com
TheRadio (online music site) ---
http://www.theradio.com/
Slacker (my second-favorite commercial-free online music site) ---
http://www.slacker.com/
Gerald Trites likes this
international radio site ---
http://www.e-radio.gr/
Songza:
Search for a song or band and play the selection ---
http://songza.com/
Also try Jango ---
http://www.jango.com/?r=342376581
Sometimes this old guy prefers the jukebox era (just let it play through) ---
http://www.tropicalglen.com/
And I listen quite often to Soldiers Radio Live ---
http://www.army.mil/fieldband/pages/listening/bandstand.html
Also note U.S. Army Band recordings
---
http://bands.army.mil/music/default.asp
Bob Jensen's threads on nearly all types of free
music selections online ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Music.htm
Photographs and Art
An Air Force pilot took a U-2 spy plane to the edge of space —
and the photos are incredible ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/photos-u-2-spy-plane-air-force-pilot-edge-of-space-2018-2
Israel: What it's like visiting one of the world's
greatest treasures, the 2,000 year-old mountaintop fortress Masada ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/masada-israel-photos-2018-7#since-masada-is-located-in-a-relatively-remote-region-of-mountain-desert-next-to-the-dead-sea-we-stayed-in-jerusalem-1
NASA's $1 billion Jupiter probe just beamed back mesmerizing new
photos of the gas giant ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/nasa-juno-probe-at-jupiter-new-photos-2018-7
Rare Photos of Frida Kahlo, Age 13-23 ---
http://www.openculture.com/2018/07/see-rare-photos-frida-kahlo-age-13-23.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2018: The Stunning
Shortlisted Images ---
https://www.newsweek.com/embargo-0001-thursday-july-19-astronomy-photographer-year-2018-stunning-space-1030663
One of the 7 wonders of the world is a 10,000-year-old city
hidden in the desert — and in real life, it's more incredible than you can
imagine ---
https://www.businessinsider.com/petra-jordan-7-wonders-of-the-world-indiana-jones-2018-7
These Adorable Dog Photographer of the Year Pictures Will Light
Up Your Day ---
https://www.newsweek.com/adorable-dog-photographer-year-pictures-1039387
How much you need to earn to live in the most expensive zip code
in every state ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/cost-of-living-most-expensive-zip-code-every-state-2018-7
Jensen Comment
Some universities sit in these "most expensive zip code" locales. Can you
identify the universities?
Note that only one such zip code was allowed for each state in these rankings.
If the top 50 zip codes in the USA were ranked some states would not make it due
to some states like California and New York would have lots of them.
Vincent Van Gogh Museum: Stories --- www.vangoghmuseum.nl/en/stories
Stedelijk Online Collection (Holland History) --- www.stedelijk.nl/en/dig-deeper
A 58-story skyscraper in San Francisco is tilting and sinking — and residents
say their multimillion-dollar condos are 'nearly worthless' ---
https://www.businessinsider.com/is-millennium-tower-safe-still-leaning-sinking-2017-9
The good news is that engineers proposed a fix that might work --- for an
enormous fee that must be paid by somebody (taxpayers?)
The miraculous fete will be pumping it back to level.
Mondrian & De Stijl --- www.mondriaan.nl/en
THEN AND NOW: Photos that show how glamorous flying used to be
---
https://www.businessinsider.com/vintage-retro-flying-airplane-travel-photos-2018-7
Long-distance train travel was also great, but traveling by car before
interstate highways was slow and tedious with lots of slowdowns for small towns
and hotels without air conditioning. Also cars were more prone to flat tires and
other break downs. Even worse was that you could not phone in troubles from your
stalled car. You either walked or hoped a passing car would stop to help you
out.
Bob Jensen's threads on art history ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2.htm#ArtHistory
Bob Jensen's threads on history, literature and art ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#History
Online Books, Poems, References, and Other Literature
In the past I've provided links to various
types electronic literature available free on the Web.
I created a page that summarizes those various links ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm
Bob Jensen's threads on libraries --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2.htm#---Libraries
Digital Dante --- https://digitaldante.columbia.edu/
Stump the Bookseller (children's books) --- http://w1.loganberrybooks.com/stumpthebookseller/
The ugly scandal that cancelled the Nobel prize for literature ---
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/jul/17/the-ugly-scandal-that-cancelled-the-nobel-prize-in-literature
Global Chaucers --- https://globalchaucers.wordpress.com/
Penguin Classic’s Back Cover Blurb for Sinclair Lewis’ 1935 Novel It Can’t
Happen Here ---
http://www.openculture.com/2018/07/penguin-classics-back-cover-blurb-sinclair-lewis-1935-novel-cant-happen.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
Free Electronic Literature ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm
Free Online Textbooks, Videos, and Tutorials ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm#Textbooks
Free Tutorials in Various Disciplines ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#Tutorials
Edutainment and Learning Games ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/thetools.htm#Edutainment
Open Sharing Courses ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI
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Another Tidbits Document
Political Quotations on July 26, 2018
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/tidbits/2018/TidbitsQuotations072618.htm
USA Debt Clock --- http://www.usdebtclock.org/ ubl
To Whom Does the USA Federal Government Owe Money (the booked
obligation of $19+ trillion) ---
http://finance.townhall.com/columnists/politicalcalculations/2016/05/25/spring-2016-to-whom-does-the-us-government-owe-money-n2168161?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl
The US Debt Clock in Real Time ---
http://www.usdebtclock.org/
Remember the Jane Fonda Movie called "Rollover" ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rollover_(film)
To Whom Does the USA Federal Government Owe Money (the
unbooked obligation of $100 trillion and unknown more in contracted
entitlements) ---
http://money.cnn.com/2013/01/15/news/economy/entitlement-benefits/
The biggest worry of the entitlements obligations is enormous obligation for the
future under the Medicare and Medicaid programs that are now deemed totally
unsustainable ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Entitlements.htm
Entitlements are two-thirds of the federal budget.
Entitlement spending has grown 100-fold over the past 50 years. Half of all
American households now rely on government handouts. When we hear statistics
like that, most of us shake our heads and mutter some sort of expletive. That’s
because nobody thinks they’re the problem. Nobody ever wants to think they’re
the problem. But that’s not the truth. The truth is, as long as we continue to
think of the rising entitlement culture in America as someone else’s problem,
someone else’s fault, we’ll never truly understand it and we’ll have absolutely
zero chance...
Steve Tobak ---
http://www.foxbusiness.com/business-leaders/2013/02/07/truth-behind-our-entitlement-culture/?intcmp=sem_outloud
"These Slides Show Why We Have Such A Huge Budget Deficit And Why Taxes
Need To Go Up," by Rob Wile, Business Insider, April 27, 2013 ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/cbo-presentation-on-the-federal-budget-2013-4
This is a slide show based on a presentation by a Harvard Economics Professor.
Peter G. Peterson Website on Deficit/Debt Solutions ---
http://www.pgpf.org/
Bob Jensen's threads on entitlements --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Entitlements.htm
Bob Jensen's health care messaging updates --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Health.htm
Microsoft Windows: A sensible tool for cleaning up hard disks ---
https://www.journalofaccountancy.com/issues/2018/jul/hard-disk-cleanup-tools.html?utm_source=mnl:cpald&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=25Jul2018
Can Netflix Survive?
Netflix's debt is rising at an exponential rate. And
not once since inception has it made a profit. This cannot last.
Mike Shedlock. July 23, 2018
https://finance.townhall.com/columnists/mikeshedlock/2018/07/23/can-netflix-survive-n2502809?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl
Jensen Comment
Personally, I find that Netflix service is going downhill. Most of the videos I
enjoy most (the majority are from BBC) are no available on the streaming service
such that my only hope is in ordering the DVD disks. The DVD disks are either no
longer available or I'm put on a waiting list that seems to be totally ignored
over months and months and months. Turn around time on available disks that used
to take about a week now takes two or more weeks. And most of the "original"
films produced by Netfix are crap.
Amazon thrived for years without earning a profit, but Amazon's performance steadily improved over those loss years. I'm finding that in the losing years of Netflix service is not getting better and better.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella's master plan is clearly working, and the
company is soaring towards $1 trillion ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-ceo-satya-nadella-cloud-plan-working-2018-7
Not a free article online
Is the Research Article Immune to Innovation?
https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2018/07/03/guest-post-research-article-immune-innovation/
Jensen Comment
As far as I can tell there's little or no innovation in our leading academic
accounting research articles in the 21st Century. There's been a suggestion or
two that research articles should be designed to excite practitioners but that's
not happened. That's probably due the fact that you can't make a silk purse out
of a sow's ear.
Eureka Effect --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eureka_effect
The Milky Way Had a Big Sibling Long Ago — And Andromeda Ate It
https://www.space.com/41234-milky-way-sibling-galaxy-devoured-by-andromeda.html
In a previous Tidbits module (July 17) about a couple living on a boat for 10
years in San Francisco I mistakenly claimed that they could not deduct their
20-year boat mortgage interest like they can deduct a house's mortgage interest.
I was wrong!
This is mainly another of the many tax breaks for the rich, although the middle
class can live on a boat to dodge property taxes and also get a mortgage
deduction for the boat used as a home.
Note that the boat does not have to ever go near
the water. Years ago the son of one of my friends in
Fullerton, CA lived in a back yard boat for ten years (he used the bathroom in
the swimming pool cabana). Having the boat in a back yard avoids having to pay
slip fees and possibly (depends on the rigor of a tax assessor) property taxes.
The boat was not even licensed --- it would have to be licensed if it was in the
water of an ocean, pond, river, or lake.
Your Boat (or Motorized RV) Might Be Considered A 'Second Home', And That
Can Mean Tax Savings ---
https://www.lakeexpo.com/boating/the_lake/your-boat-might-be-considered-a-second-home-and-that/article_8bfa08e0-2185-11e8-ad42-bbd0a4b7ffac.html
Also see
https://finance.zacks.com/declaring-motor-home-second-home-federal-tax-returns-1106.html
However, towable RVs no longer get the mortgage
interest deduction ---
http://rvlife.com/new-tax-bill-2018/
San Francisco is so expensive, this couple decided to live on
a boat — here's what it's like 10 years later ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/couple-buys-boat-to-avoid-san-francisco-rent-2017-7
Jensen Comment
This leaves some unanswered questions. How does San Francisco get property taxes
out of boat owners who live on their boats? In some way these permanent
residents should contribute toward schools and municipal services like fire and
police protection. If these are covered in the $900 "slip fee" it's a darn good
deal relative to what renters and home owners pay in San Francisco for property
taxes. It's possible in San Francisco that parking a car near the boat might
cost an added $900 per month. Of course one might have two homes --- a
boat in a slip and a motor home in a parking space. Where I live in the
mountains of New Hampshire nobody lives on a boat, but a few folks avoid
property taxes by living with wheels under their homes. That can be drafty at 30
degrees below zero with a strong wind. To avoid frozen toes up here you need a
basement.
The SF Bay area has a long history of boat residents.
On the other side of the Golden Gate Bridge in Sausalito, my San Francisco State
University accounting professor friend, Tom Montgomery, lived for decades on a
houseboat ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sausalito,_California
The night views looking across at the lighted hills of San Francisco were
fantastic.
Note that it's possible to live on a boat away from water.
The son of a friend of mine lived for ten years in a boat in the backyard of his
parent's home in Fullerton, Colorado. He used the bathroom in the swimming pool
cabana.
July 7, 2018 reply from Glen Gray
In California, the boat property tax is like car tax. It’s paid annually based on the value of the boat. Since the boat decreases in value over time, the tax goes down every year. The tax has a fixed amount, so it never goes to zero. However, the dock master is paying real estate taxes which generally only goes up in California. That tax is indirectly built into the slip fees. Like any rents (e.g., apartment rents) slip fees mostly reflect market rate. As far as I know they aren’t building any more marinas in California. I live in a marina but not on a boat. The marina is rebuilding the existing slips (built in the late 1960s) replacing the existing slips with longer slips. Slips are rented on a per foot per month basis. If they replace shorter slips with longer slips, there will be less slips overall. Presumably someone has done a calculation to determine there is more demand for longer slips than shorter slips. I know there has always been a waiting list to get into the marina.
Glen
July 7, 2018 reply from Bob Jensen
Hi Glen,
Sounds like a better way to reduce property taxes is to live in a motor home rather than a boat, although there are still annual registration fees that decline with age of the motor home. There are more options for parking motor homes, although local zoning laws can be restrictive.
Car and presumably boat registration fees sound like they are state taxes that avoid local fees like the town, county, and school district portions of property taxes that can be much more expensive than state vehicle registration fees. My property taxes in NH are nearly 25 times the annual NH registration fees for my new car even though the value of my home is not 25 times the current value of my new car.
The $900 slip fee in San Francisco for the boat in the article is far less than my average monthly NH property tax. And the $900 (assumed monthly) "slip fee" includes annual returns to the marina owner. Only a portion of those cover local "taxes." Hence, I think people living on boats in marinas are probably dodging a lot of local taxes for towns, counties, school districts, hospitals, etc.
One huge problem with boats is maintenance expense, especially if the boat sits in corrosive salt water. The article covered that a bit.
Probably the biggest difference between owning a house and owning a boat or motor home is that houses on land that are well maintained tend to go up in value except in a very depressed housing areas. Value appreciation rarely happens with boats and motor homes irrespective of maintenance. In other words, your house is both an investment and a shelter from the weather. I don't know that anybody buys a boat or motor home for purposes of having a long-term investment.
There also is an income tax consideration. A $250,000 mortgage on a house is tax deductible even under Trump's new income tax law.
I don't think a $250,000 loan on a boat is tax deductible, although I did not research this issue.The bottom line is that living on a boat is a way to avoid most local taxes but is a lousy option relative to home ownership as a long-term investment. In California home ownership is an even better long-term investment relative to most of the other states in the USA because of Proposition 13 that caps local property taxes even if home value soars through the roof.
As an example, a friend of mine has lived in the same Palo Alto house for over five decades. Due to Prop 13 his property taxes are negligible relative to what anybody who buys his house will pay. The value of his home soared through the roof over the last 50 years. He would be a lesser millionaire if he'd lived on a boat for 50 years in Palo Alto.
But, as the article implies about Silicon Valley boat living, living on a boat, car, van, or motor home in Palo Alto may be the only option for someone wanting to move to Palo Alto in 2018. This is why Stanford University housing subsidies became vital to sustaining this university. But you have to work for or be retired from Stanford to get those subsidies.
Now we know why so many Silicon Valley employees, including those making over $100,000 per month, are living in cars, vans, motor homes, and boats. Investing in a Silicon Valley home may not be a feasible alternative.
Bob
Amazon finally made self-publishing (potentially) lucrative.
But does its dominance come at a cost?
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/07/amazon-kindle-unlimited-self-publishing/565664/
How to Mislead With Statistics
Call it the “green rush:” Legalizing weed in Colorado caused a 6% surge in house
prices in 2015 ---
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/ecin.12556
Jensen Comment
I'll leave it to you to count the ways this type of "causal" conclusion is
misleading. Have students identify how this study makes an effort to infer
causality and how those efforts can go wrong. This is similar to what accounting
researchers call "events studies." Firstly, accountants identify an important
event that took place that might impact share prices on one or more companies.
For example, an event might be the announcement of Company X net income/loss for
2017 on April 23, 2018. The impact of that "event" might then be studied in
terms of share price movement. Error arises when there are other events
affecting share prices on or around April 23 such as political or economic
events. Error arises when there are "leakages" about the anticipated net
income/loss to be announced. For example, at any time after January 1, 2018
financial analysts from around the world might announce their estimates of
Company X net earnings/loss. Rarely has the awaited announced loss of Tesla come
as a complete surprise to the investing world. My point here is announcement of
municipality weed laws also did not usually come as a complete surprise on the
date of the announcement. Real estate transactions in those municipalities
probably anticipated weed law events well in advance. Have students identify
other sources of error in events studies of causality.
Does legalizing retail marijuana generate more benefits than costs? This paper provides a first step toward addressing that question by measuring the benefits and costs that are capitalized into housing values. We exploit the time‐series and cross‐sectional variations in the adoption of Colorado's municipality retail marijuana laws (RMLs) and examine the effect on housing values with a difference‐in‐differences strategy. Our estimates show that the legalization leads to an average 6% increase in housing values, indicating that the capitalized benefits outweigh the costs. In addition, we find suggestive evidence that this relatively large housing value appreciation is likely due to RMLs inducing strong housing demand while having no discernible effect on housing supply. Finally, we show that the effect of RMLs is heterogeneous across locations and property types. (JEL K20, R28)
Causal Inference --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causal_inference
Causal Inference With Observational Data:
Econometrics Blog Post by David Giles ---
http://davegiles.blogspot.com/2018/06/shout-out-for-marc-bellemare.html
Shout-Out for Marc Bellemare
If you don't follow Marc Bellemare's blog (shame on you - you should!), then you may not have caught up with his recent posts relating to his series of lectures on "Advanced Econometrics - Causal Inference With Observational Data" at the University of Copenhagen in May of this year.
Marc is keeping us all on tenterhooks by "releasing" the slides for these lectures progressively - smart move!
So far, the first four of the eight lectures in the series are available for downloading:
· Lecture 1: Introduction
· Lecture 2: Causality
· Lecture 3: Instrumental Variables
· Lecture 4: Panel Data & Differences-in-Differences
I'm looking forward to seeing the rest of these terrific lectures.
How to Mislead With Statistics:
Here's how wealthy the average family is in 35 countries around the world ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/net-worth-average-family-around-the-world-oecd-countries-2018-7
Jensen Comment
I'll leave it up to you to count the ways this ranking can be misleading. For
openers think of living costs such as how much does it cost to hire a house
cleaner, and yard service for 40 hours to 24/7 hours per week in each of
these countries, e.g., Switzerland versus Mexico. Then there are the many
taxation differences such as property taxes, income taxes, VAT taxes, etc. Then
there are enormous differences in real estate prices. world class health care,
etc.
Then there's kurtosis affected by outliers in mean calculations (think of poverty in Mexico versus Switzerland and the USA).
How much you need to earn to live in the most expensive zip
code in every state ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/cost-of-living-most-expensive-zip-code-every-state-2018-7
Jensen Comment
Some universities sit in these "most expensive zip code" locales. Can you
identify the universities?
Note that only one such zip code was allowed for each state in these rankings.
If the top 50 zip codes in the USA were ranked some states would not make it due
to some states like California and New York would have lots of them.
July 17, 2018 message from Glen Gray
University education may increase the likelihood of brain cancer by 19 percent for men and 23 percent for women.
Glen
July 17, 2017 reply from Bob Jensen
This is another example of confounding variables in spurious correlation similar to Yates' finding that storks might really deliver babies in Denmark.
I speculate that college graduates on average have more tensions in their jobs, marriages, and/or other lifestyles. Graduating from college is not a cause of brain cancer. Tension (a confounding variable) might increase the risk of brain cancer. There may also be an outlier issue in this research. I suggest replacing least-squares analysis with quantile analysis.
Thanks,
Bob
Spurious Correlation --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spurious_relationship
Jensen Comment
Confounding variables in
spurious correlations
have varying
degrees of ambiguity. For example, Yates' discovery of correlation of Danish
birthrates with the number of stork nests in Denmark probably has some
confounding factors, but the confounding relationships are quite ambiguous. On
the other hand, correlations of ice cream sales and swimming pool drowning
deaths are more directly related to increased number of people (especially young
children) swimming on hotter days.
We know how newborns are delivered, and this does not entail delivery by storks. However, there can be confounding variables that lead to Yates' classic example of spurious correlation. For example, Danish birth rates may be more closely related to the prosperity that comes with increased weekly rainfall. Likewise, the number of stork nests in Denmark may also be related to increased food supply resulting from increased weekly rainfall.
Causal inference can become quite complicated.
Causal Inference --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causal_inference
Causal Inference With Observational Data: Econometrics
Blog Post by David Giles ---
http://davegiles.blogspot.com/2018/06/shout-out-for-marc-bellemare.html
Shout-Out for Marc Bellemare
If you don't follow Marc Bellemare's blog (shame on you - you should!), then you may not have caught up with his recent posts relating to his series of lectures on "Advanced Econometrics - Causal Inference With Observational Data" at the University of Copenhagen in May of this year.
Marc is keeping us all on tenterhooks by "releasing" the slides for these lectures progressively - smart move!
So far, the first four of the eight lectures in the series are available for downloading:
· Lecture 1: Introduction
· Lecture 2: Causality
· Lecture 3: Instrumental Variables
· Lecture 4: Panel Data & Differences-in-Differences
I'm looking forward to seeing the rest of these terrific lectures.
Ivy League Degree for the Nontraditional Student ---
https://www.insidehighered.com/digital-learning/article/2018/07/25/penn-announces-online-masters-degree-coursera-platform?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=dbda386f31-DNU_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-dbda386f31-197565045&mc_cid=dbda386f31&mc_eid=1e78f7c952
Bob Jensen's threads on fee-based online degree programs ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/crossborder.htm
These are the 10 highest-paying jobs (with experience) in
tech, according to Glassdoor ---
https://www.businessinsider.com/highest-paying-tech-jobs-salary-glassdoor-2018-7
Yield Curve Inversion --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yield_curve
Imminent yield curve inversion 'real possibility': Fed's
Bullard ---
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-fed-bullard/imminent-yield-curve-inversion-real-possibility-feds-bullard-idUSKBN1KA1MO
Walmart is using self-driving cars to transport shoppers to
their groceries ---
https://www.businessinsider.com/walmart-self-driving-car-grocery-2018-7
University of Central Florida: How It Grew from 22,000
students to 66,000 since 1992 with partnership building amidst other growth
factors that includes a new medical school?
https://www.chronicle.com/article/This-President-Tripled-the/243922?cid=db&elqTrackId=8d63b43d076d45e39806bd47f77c25b1&elq=c54b3157daf84e638d19256b151e886a&elqaid=19757&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=9139
Jensen Comment
Growth can be a double-edged sword.
In the profit sector General Electric is Exhibit A for some of the bad things
emerging from growth. In the not-for-profit sector growth can be overwhelming
such as in the poop-smeared not-so-beautiful City of San Francisco. But growth
can also be a very good thing as evidenced by Google, Apple, and Stanford
University. Often the jury is still out on fast growing entities like Facebook
and the University of Central Florida.
I always remember hearing on the campus of the University of
Maine at Orono (where I was on the faculty for ten years) that the last thing
UMO needed was a medical school and medical center, because more often than not
the always-desperate medical schools and their medical centers sap the budgets
of the other divisions of their host universities (of course this is not always
the case). Exhibit A is the recent split between Vanderbilt University and its
Medical Center ---
https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/education/2016/04/29/vanderbilt-university-split-medical-center-saturday/83716076/
Both parties to this split are expected to do better on their own, although the
medical school itself will still be part of the university.
Python Programming Language --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python_(programming_language)
Beginner Tips for Learning Python Programming ---
https://realpython.com/python-beginner-tips/
Peril for Small Private Colleges: A Survey of Business Officers ---
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/survey/peril-private-colleges-survey-business-officers?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=5ce20b3a9a-WNU_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-5ce20b3a9a-197565045&mc_cid=5ce20b3a9a&mc_eid=1e78f7c952
The Myth of Clean Solar/Battery Energy
Energy storage has a dirty secret. The way it’s typically
used in the US today, it enables more fossil-fueled energy and higher carbon
emissions. Emissions are higher today than they
would have been if no storage had ever been deployed in the US ---
https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2018/4/27/17283830/batteries-energy-storage-carbon-emissions
Indictment Alleges Bribery in Admissions at Penn ---
https://www.insidehighered.com/admissions/article/2018/07/23/indictment-charges-coach-was-bribed-get-applicant-penn?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=16fd5b76fd-DNU_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-16fd5b76fd-197565045&mc_cid=16fd5b76fd&mc_eid=1e78f7c952
Bob Jensen's Fraud Updates ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudUpdates.htm
Education Week's Report on Pre-K:
Are the Effects (on academic achievement) of State Funded Pre-K Overrated?
Probably ---
https://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2018/07/18/are-the-effects-of-state-pre-k-overrated.html?cmp=eml-enl-eu-news1&M=58551888&U=2290378
Jensen Comment
There are just too many confounding variables affecting both short-term and
long-term academic achievement. There are also other benefits of "free" Pre-K
such as financial savings for working parents.
The ugly scandal that cancelled the Nobel prize for literature ---
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/jul/17/the-ugly-scandal-that-cancelled-the-nobel-prize-in-literature
These are the best books of 2018 so far, according to Amazon ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-best-books-of-the-year-2018-6
Google fined a record $5 billion by the EU for abusing the dominance of
Android ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/google-fined-by-eu-android-2018-7
Jensen Comment
It seems that American companies get fined by the EU just for being American
companies
Is there an American tech company that's not been fined?
English Majors: Writing is doing relatively well, and literature not
so much. ---
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2018/07/18/new-analysis-english-departments-says-numbers-majors-are-way-down-2012-its-not-death?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=70c138edeb-DNU_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-70c138edeb-197565045&mc_cid=70c138edeb&mc_eid=1e78f7c952
The $4.3 Million Haul in 28 Days
James R. Ramsey (28 Day President of the University of Louisville --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_R._Ramsey
Ramsey is accused of mismanaging over $55M in University Foundation funds. He is currently being sued by the institution. The suit says the defendants knowingly caused the foundation to spend endowment funds at an excessive rate and that they took endowment money that should have been invested and diverted it to speculative ventures, loans, and gifts that had little realistic chance of repayment.
From a Chronicle of Higher Education Newsletter on July 16, 20, 2018
The man who earned more than any other public-college president in the 2017 fiscal year spent a grand total of 27 days on the job, and he resigned under a cloud of recriminations. Yet James R. Ramsey, who led both the University of Louisville and its foundation, took home nearly $4.3 million, most of it from an unorthodox — and record-setting — deferred-compensation package. Now the university and the foundation are suing to get that money back.
From a Chronicle of Higher Education Newsletter on July 13, 2018
A dozen public-college presidents made more than $1 million in 2016-17, and the top earner received a lucrative final payout — after his resignation in a cloud of controversy — that amounted to more than four times that. You can read all about it, including statistics on your university, or your peer universities, in Monday’s Chronicle.
Jensen Comment
By comparison the head coach at the University of Georgia makes over $4 million
per year.
2018 AAUP Faculty Salary Report ---
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2018/04/11/aaups-annual-report-faculty-compensation-takes-salary-compression-and-more
Trade Balance --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balance_of_trade (note that China and the USA are opposing outliers)
Trump's looming auto trade battle is staggeringly pointless — but there's a
good chance he'll win it ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/why-trump-will-win-auto-tariff-trade-war-2018-7
China's trade surplus was US$28.9 billion (for the month of
June) on
the back of a 12.6 per cent rise in China’s exports to the United States before
Trump's tariffs kicked in ---
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/economy/article/2155113/china-reports-record-surplus-and-strong-exports-growth-us-july-6
Jensen Comment
What would happen if all countries eliminated their tariffs (free trade)? (presumably
preferred by President Trump although this is not entirely clear for all
industries since destroying some industries is political suicide)
Aside from military-induced tariffs, the primary political argument for tariffs
is to save jobs and industries (such as saving Japan's inefficient
labor-intensive rice farms) ---
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/04/17/business/u-s-agrees-to-let-japanese-tariffs-stand-on-rice-wheat/#.W04pKLgpCUk
One somewhat surprising gift to Trump is the way other countries (think Brazil
and Egypt) reacted to China's increased soybean tariffs was to pick up the
demand and price for USA soybeans.
Because the political stakes are so high with trade wars (pitting industries against one another) there's a massive amount of fake news as trade wars heat up!
USA Today: Trade wars are damaging, so why is Trump
fighting one with China?
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2018/07/13/trade-wars-tariffs-us-china-donald-trump/778719002/
EU-Japan free trade agreement defies
protectionism ---
https://www.dw.com/en/eu-japan-free-trade-agreement-defies-protectionism/a-44695274
Question for Students
What makes such a free trade agreement more difficult for USA-EU or USA-Japan?
Hint 1: USA low export prices of agricultural products like rice, corn,
and soybeans are huge stumbling blocks for nations trying to protect their own
farmers (such as Japan's rice farmers)
Hint 2: USA low export prices on automobiles have been stumbling blocks
for European nations trying to protect automobile manufacturers, although
recently the EU lowered import duties on automobiles
Protectionism works both ways in politics and makes free trade agreements very
difficult to negotiate such as the recent EU-Japan agreement
On Amazon You Don't Always Get What You Paid For ---
NYT: Amazon’s Curious Case of the $2,630.52 Used (lackluster) Paperback
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/15/technology/amazon-used-paperback-book-pricing.html
An otherwise unremarkable used 2009 paperback romance novel was listed on Amazon for $2,630.52. This is just one example of many otherwise unremarkable books listed for exorbitant prices by (possibly Russian) third-party sellers on the “bizarre bazaar” that Amazon’s online bookstore has become.
Five Thirty Eight Blog on July 16, 2018
Jensen Comment
It's quite common to see used copies of Amazon books priced higher than new
copies even when new copies are available. I never could quite understand this
if used vendors weren't including pot leaves pressed between pages or when the
used books are otherwise more precious (first editions, author signed, fantastic
margin notes, etc.). As a retired professor I can think about ways used copies
may be more valuable to students. For example, if a student's teacher gives
open-textbook examinations having a used book with math answers computed in the
margins might be useful.
Amazon's Book Return Policy ---
https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?ie=UTF8&nodeId=202075110
I suspect that Amazon gets burned a lot with book returns. It would seem that there must be some limits placed by Amazon on heavy abusers.
BBC: Young Norwegians have enjoyed a 13% rise in disposable
household income, bucking a downward trend in other strong economies ---
http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20180709-unlike-most-millennials-norways-are-rich
. . .
People in their early thirties in Norway have an average annual disposable household income of around 460,000 kroner (around $56,200).
Young Norwegians have enjoyed a 13% rise in disposable household income in real terms compared to Generation X (those born between 1966 and 1980) when they were the same age. These startling figures come from the largest comparative wealth data set in the world, the Luxembourg Income Database, and were analysed in a recent report on generational incomes for the UK Think Tank The Resolution Foundation.
Continued in articl
Cost of Living in Norway ---
https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/country_result.jsp?country=Norway&displayCurrency=USD
In the currency box click on the currency you want to view such as "USD"
for US Dollar
Cost of Living and Wages are difficult to compare when taxes and services differ
greatly between countries.
As a rule of thumb it costs about 50% more to live in
Norway but there are many variables to consider such as how expensive
gasoline is offset by free electricity for charging (relatively expensive)
electric cars
Visiting Norway as a tourist is much more expensive than most other nations.
In Norway, 32 percent
of the population has a higher education. The competition for jobs is intense .
. . ---
http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20180709-unlike-most-millennials-norways-are-rich
Jensen Comment
Note that college education is free in Norway. However, the
32% number above reveals that only intellectually elite can get into
college, which is typical of tertiary education in nations having free college
---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/HigherEdControversies.htm#Tertiary
Progressives raving for free college in the USA because college is free in most
of Europe fail to mention that well over 60% of the populace in Europe cannot
pass the competitive admission requirements for college.
US News: To attract and retain younger workers, more
companies are offering a different type of employee perk: student loan (taxable)
repayment assistance ---
https://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/paying-for-college/articles/2018-07-23/what-to-know-about-employer-plans-that-pay-your-student-loans
Conspirators in eight states have been sentenced and 32 people in India
have been indicted in connection with an IRS phone scam in which fraudsters
posed as Internal Revenue Service agents or immigration officials ---
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kellyphillipserb/2018/07/22/scammers-finally-punished-for-cheating-us-taxpayers-out-of-millions-of-dollars/#eaee1ee2294d
How Your State Funds Welfare and Where It Goes ---
https://247wallst.com/special-report/2018/07/13/how-your-state-funds-welfare-and-where-it-goes/?utm_source=247WallStDailyNewsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=JUL182018A&utm_campaign=DailyNewsletter
01. Vermont (highest welfare spending state per capita)
> Total 2015 state welfare spending: $2,761 per capita ($1.73 billion)
> Medical payments as share of state welfare spending: 82.5% (11th lowest)
> State welfare spending from federal funds: 64.7% (21st highest)
> Population 65 and over: 18.2% (4th highest)
> State tax collections per capita: $4,861 (2nd highest)02. Massachusetts
> Total 2015 state welfare spending: $2,721 per capita ($18.49 billion)
> Medical payments as share of state welfare spending: 92.6% (5th highest)
> State welfare spending from federal funds: 50.2% (5th lowest)
> Population 65 and over: 15.8% (24th highest)
> State tax collections per capita: $3,976 (7th highest). . .
49. Georgia
> Total 2015 state welfare spending: $1,152 per capita ($11.77 billion)
> Medical payments as share of state welfare spending: 90.3% (16th highest)
> State welfare spending from federal funds: 54.2% (15th lowest)
> Population 65 and over: 13.2% (4th lowest)
> State tax collections per capita: $1,931 (5th lowest)50. Utah (lowest welfare spending state per capita)
> Total 2015 state welfare spending: $1,076 per capita ($3.22 billion)
> Medical payments as share of state welfare spending: 79.6% (5th lowest)
> State welfare spending from federal funds: 74.9% (10th highest)
> Population 65 and over: 10.5% (2nd lowest)
> State tax collections per capita: $2,237 (13th lowest)
Jensen Comment
Interestingly, Georgia has a relatively high proportion of minorities and is
second lowest
in
terms of welfare spending per capita.
Vermont has a relatively low proportion of minorities and is
highest
in terms of welfare per capita.
Utah has a relatively low proportion of minorities and has the
lowest
spending per capita for welfare.
Clearly, many factors are at work here other than minority presence.
Which states are facing the biggest budgetary crises?
https://www.statedatalab.org/
Find Your Masters Degree ---
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Science in the Classroom: Concussions: A Century of Controversy and Research --- www.scienceintheclassroom.org/collections/concussions-century-controversy-and-research
Sara VanDerWerf (K-12 Mathematics) --- https://saravanderwerf.com/
How to Paint Like Kandinsky, Picasso, Warhol & More: A Video Series from the
Tate ---
http://www.openculture.com/2018/07/tates-series-bridges-gap-history-creation-show-artists-process-picasso-warhol.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
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Science in the Classroom: Concussions: A Century of Controversy and Research --- www.scienceintheclassroom.org/collections/concussions-century-controversy-and-research
The National Energy Education Development Project --- www.need.org
Geotripper --- http://geotripper.blogspot.com/
Climate Change in Maine --- https://bates.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapJournal/index.html?appid=d9485749e38d46bda1f0f829361c2bff
Going Viral: the Mother of All Pandemics --- http://goingviralthepod.libsyn.com/website
Merlin Bird ID App --- http://merlin.allaboutbirds.org/
The National Energy Education Development Project --- www.need.org
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Going Viral: the Mother of All Pandemics --- http://goingviralthepod.libsyn.com/website
Neighborhood Atlas (public health) --- www.neighborhoodatlas.medicine.wisc.edu
The National Energy Education Development Project --- www.need.org
University of Minnesota: Immigration History Research Center Archives --- http://umedia.lib.umn.edu/node/5494
Big Ten Academic Alliance Geoportal --- https://geo.btaa.org/
Disability Studies Quarterly --- http://dsq-sds.org/index
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History Tutorials
University of Minnesota: Immigration History Research Center Archives --- http://umedia.lib.umn.edu/node/5494
Global Chaucers --- https://globalchaucers.wordpress.com/
French Revolution Digital Archive --- https://frda.stanford.edu/
Chicago History Museum Collection Online --- http://digitalcollection.chicagohistory.org/
What Is Stoicism? A Short Introduction to the Ancient Philosophy That Can
Help You Cope with Our Modern Times ---
http://www.openculture.com/2018/07/what-is-stoicism.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
Rare Photos of Frida Kahlo, Age 13-23 ---
http://www.openculture.com/2018/07/see-rare-photos-frida-kahlo-age-13-23.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
Pioneering Women of American Architecture ---
https://pioneeringwomen.bwaf.org/acknowledgments/
Going Viral: the Mother of All Pandemics --- http://goingviralthepod.libsyn.com/website
Vincent Van Gogh Museum: Stories --- www.vangoghmuseum.nl/en/stories
What America Ate (in the Great Depression) --- http://whatamericaate.org/
Fashion Institute of Technology: The Museum at FIT --- http://fashionmuseum.fitnyc.edu/
Open Library of Humanities --- www.openlibhums.org
Big Ten Academic Alliance Geoportal --- https://geo.btaa.org/
Fire & Freedom: Food & Enslavement in Early America --- www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/fireandfreedom
Stump the Bookseller (children's books) --- http://w1.loganberrybooks.com/stumpthebookseller/
Stedelijk Online Collection (Holland History) --- www.stedelijk.nl/en/dig-deeper
Digital Dante --- https://digitaldante.columbia.edu/
World War Ireland: Exploring the Irish Experience --- www.nli.ie/WWI
Bob Jensen's threads on history tutorials are at
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2.htm
Scroll down to History
Also see
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm
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Writing Tutorials
Bob Jensen's helpers for writers are at http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob3.htm#Dictionaries
Bob Jensen's threads on medicine ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2-Part2.htm#Medicine
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NPR Health News --- http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots
Updates from WebMD --- http://www.webmd.com/
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Time Magazine: The 10 Best and Worst Oils For Your Health ---
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Omega-3 no protection against heart attack or strokes, say scientists
---
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/jul/18/omega-3-no-protection-against-heart-attack-or-strokes-say-scientists
---
Neighborhood Atlas (public health) --- www.neighborhoodatlas.medicine.wisc.edu
Study compares athlete and truck driver, identical twins ---
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2018-07-athlete-truck-driver-identical-twins.html
Humor for July 2018
Dad Ditches Kid In Economy Class To Relax In
Business Class (12-hour flight) ---
Dad Ditches Kid In Economy Class To Relax In Business Class
Jensen Comment
I have an acquaintance with a free first-class upgrade who ditched his wife in
economy class. I wonder some about the "honeymoon" later at that conference
Hunter S. Thompson’s Many Strange, Unpredictable Appearances on The David
Letterman Show ---
http://www.openculture.com/2018/07/hunter-s-thompsons-many-strange-unpredictable-appearances-david-letterman-show.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
Humor July 2018--- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book18q3.htm#Humor0718.htm
Humor June 2018--- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book18q2.htm#Humor0618.htm
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Humor December 2017--- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book17q4.htm#Humor1217.htm
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Humor October 2017--- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book17q4.htm#Humor1017.htm
Humor September 2017--- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book17q3.htm#Humor0917.htm
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Humor December 2016 --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book16q4.htm#Humor1216.htm
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Humor July 2016 --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book16q3.htm#Humor0716.htm
Humor June 2016 --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/book16q2.htm#Humor063016.htm
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For-Profit Universities Operating in the Gray
Zone of Fraud (College, Inc.) ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/HigherEdControversies.htm#ForProfitFraud
Shielding Against Validity Challenges in Plato's Cave ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/TheoryTAR.htm
The Cult of Statistical Significance:
How Standard Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice, and Lives ---
http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/temp/DeirdreMcCloskey/StatisticalSignificance01.htm
How Accountics Scientists Should Change:
"Frankly, Scarlett, after I get a hit for my resume in The Accounting Review
I just don't give a damn"
http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/temp/AccounticsDamn.htm
One more mission in what's left of my life will be to try to change this
http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/temp/AccounticsDamn.htm
What went wrong in accounting/accountics research?
---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/theory01.htm#WhatWentWrong
The Sad State of Accountancy Doctoral
Programs That Do Not Appeal to Most Accountants ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/theory01.htm#DoctoralPrograms
AN ANALYSIS OF THE EVOLUTION OF RESEARCH
CONTRIBUTIONS BY THE ACCOUNTING REVIEW: 1926-2005 ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/395wpTAR/Web/TAR395wp.htm#_msocom_1
Bob Jensen's threads on accounting theory
---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/theory01.htm
Tom Lehrer on Mathematical Models and
Statistics ---
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfZWyUXn3So
Systemic problems of accountancy (especially the
vegetable nutrition paradox) that probably will never be solved ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudConclusion.htm#BadNews
World Clock ---
http://www.peterussell.com/Odds/WorldClock.php
Facts about the earth in real time --- http://www.worldometers.info/
Interesting Online Clock
and Calendar
---
http://home.tiscali.nl/annejan/swf/timeline.swf
Time by Time Zones ---
http://timeticker.com/
Projected Population Growth (it's out of control) ---
http://geography.about.com/od/obtainpopulationdata/a/worldpopulation.htm
Also see
http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/BiologyPages/P/Populations.html
Facts about population growth (video) ---
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMcfrLYDm2U
Projected U.S. Population Growth ---
http://www.carryingcapacity.org/projections75.html
Real time meter of the U.S. cost of the war in Iraq ---
http://www.costofwar.com/
Enter you zip code to get Census Bureau comparisons ---
http://zipskinny.com/
Sure wish there'd be a little good news today.
Free (updated) Basic Accounting Textbook --- search for Hoyle at
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm#Textbooks
CPA Examination ---
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cpa_examination
Free CPA Examination Review Course Courtesy of Joe Hoyle ---
http://cpareviewforfree.com/
Rick Lillie's education, learning, and technology blog is at http://iaed.wordpress.com/
Accounting News, Blogs, Listservs, and Social
Networking ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/AccountingNews.htm
Bob Jensen's Threads ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/threads.htm
Current and past editions of my newsletter called New
Bookmarks ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookurl.htm
Current and past editions of my newsletter called
Tidbits ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/TidbitsDirectory.htm
Current and past editions of my newsletter called Fraud
Updates ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudUpdates.htm
Online Books, Poems, References,
and Other Literature
In the past I've provided links to various types electronic literature available
free on the Web.
I created a page that summarizes those various links ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm
Some of Bob Jensen's Tutorials
Accounting program news items for colleges are posted at
http://www.accountingweb.com/news/college_news.html
Sometimes the news items provide links to teaching resources for accounting
educators.
Any college may post a news item.
Accounting and Taxation News Sites ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/AccountingNews.htm
AECM
(Educators)
http://listserv.aaahq.org/cgi- AECM is an email Listserv list which provides a forum for discussions of all hardware and software which can be useful in any way for accounting education at the college/university level. Hardware includes all platforms and peripherals. Software includes spreadsheets, practice sets, multimedia authoring and presentation packages, data base programs, tax packages, World Wide Web applications, etc.
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Yahoo (Practitioners)
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AccountantsWorld
http://accountantsworld.com/forums/default.asp?scope=1 This site hosts various discussion groups on such topics as accounting software, consulting, financial planning, fixed assets, payroll, human resources, profit on the Internet, and taxation. |
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Business Valuation Group
BusValGroup-subscribe@topica.com This discussion group is headed by Randy Schostag [RSchostag@BUSVALGROUP.COM] |
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FEI's Financial Reporting Blog
Smart Stops on the Web, Journal of Accountancy, March 2008 --- http://www.aicpa.org/pubs/jofa/mar2008/smart_stops.htm
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The CAlCPA Tax Listserv September 4, 2008 message from Scott Bonacker
[lister@bonackers.com]
Scott forwarded the following message from Jim Counts
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Many useful accounting sites (scroll down) --- http://www.iasplus.com/links/links.htm
Bob Jensen's Sort-of Blogs ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/JensenBlogs.htm
Current and past editions of my newsletter called New
Bookmarks ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookurl.htm
Current and past editions of my newsletter called
Tidbits ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/TidbitsDirectory.htm
Current and past editions of my newsletter called Fraud
Updates ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudUpdates.htm
Some Accounting History Sites
Bob Jensen's
Accounting History in a Nutshell and Links ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/theory01.htm#AccountingHistory
Accounting
History Libraries at the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) ---
http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/accountancy/libraries.html
The above libraries include international accounting history.
The above libraries include film and video historical collections.
MAAW Knowledge Portal for Management and Accounting ---
http://maaw.info/
Academy of Accounting Historians and the Accounting Historians Journal ---
http://www.accounting.rutgers.edu/raw/aah/
Sage Accounting History ---
http://ach.sagepub.com/cgi/pdf_extract/11/3/269
A nice timeline on the development of U.S. standards and the evolution of
thinking about the income statement versus the balance sheet is provided at:
"The Evolution of U.S. GAAP: The Political Forces Behind Professional
Standards (1930-1973)," by Stephen A. Zeff, CPA Journal, January 2005
---
http://www.nysscpa.org/cpajournal/2005/105/infocus/p18.htm
Part II covering years 1974-2003 published in February 2005 ---
http://www.nysscpa.org/cpajournal/2005/205/index.htm
A nice timeline of accounting history --- http://www.docstoc.com/docs/2187711/A-HISTORY-OF-ACCOUNTING
From Texas
A&M University
Accounting History Outline ---
http://acct.tamu.edu/giroux/history.html
Bob
Jensen's timeline of derivative financial instruments and hedge accounting ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudRotten.htm#DerivativesFrauds
History of
Fraud in America ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/415wp/AmericanHistoryOfFraud.htm
Also see
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Fraud.htm
Bob Jensen's
Threads ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/threads.htm
More of Bob Jensen's Pictures and
Stories
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Pictures.htm
All my online pictures --- http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/PictureHistory/
Professor Robert E. Jensen (Bob)
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen
190 Sunset Hill Road
Sugar Hill, NH 03586
Phone: 603-823-8482
Email:
rjensen@trinity.edu