Friends of Dave #48: Food Coma
No doubt you are still recovering.
Short and sweet this week folks, but we are not slacking off. Keeping it easy and light as you emerge from your food comas, recover from Black Friday shenanigans, and get yourselves back from grandma's house.
Safe travels everyone. Home stretch for year end starts Monday.
XOXO
Dave
4 To Start: The College Experience
The NY Fed came out with an analysis on student loan default rates and learned some interesting things about who values most from college educations. Pretty good stuff.
Death of the MBA — www.axios.com Like a law degree, graduate business education was a sure bet to the upper middle class — but not anymore.
Alabama football players are worth $545,357 to the school each year — www.businessinsider.com What if players were able to participate in a free market system?
The Secret Life of Live Mascots — www.espn.com
Uga, Bevo, Rameses are all household names to many college football faithful. See what life is like off the field for these living symbols of school pride.
2 to Maintain the Integrity of this Newsletter
Car Manufacturers Have an Alarming Ability to Farm and Sell Driver Data — www.thedrive.com Should drivers be able to protect their data better in an increasingly connected world?
Wall Street and the new data paradigm — www.ibtimes.co.uk
Data – from satellite images of areas of interest, automated drones, people-counting sensors, container ships' positions, credit card transactional data, jobs and layoffs reports, cell phones, social media, news articles, tweets, online search queries – is now the most valuable commodity for Wall Street.
2 Last Fun Ones to Remember Turkey Day
For Years, Republican and Democratic States Held Separate Thanksgivings — www.atlasobscura.com Before Friendsgiving, there was Franksgiving.
How Pumpkin Pie Sparked a 19th-Century Culture War — www.atlasobscura.com
BFD: mashed potatoes sparked a food fight between two 6 year olds at my Thanksgiving dinner.