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This is the new Winston Churchill biopic hitting theatres. By the way, Churchill was of American descent by way of his mother (Wikipedia says he was the first foreigner made an honorary citizen of the U.S. as well).

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For you Star Trek fans, here is a little weekend preview of what to see.  It’s Star Trek vs. Wolverine at the box office this weekend.  It might be a nice break from stress tests and employment reports.  Enjoy.

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With the weekend and Holiday season upon us, I wanted to end the week with a distraction of the day video sent to my by my friend Judith. I think it’s pretty uplifting. Maybe, I’m just getting sentimental in my old age.

December is a big month for Hollywood as some of the biggest and most critically acclaimed movies come out in December. One such movie is “The Reader” starring Kate Winslet. I am a big fan, so I thought I’d provide you with a little distraction from the usual fare of dismal economic news with a short clip from the film.

Enjoy.

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The holiday season is the second most important for the movie studios and many of their academy-award nominees are released in the time after Thanksgiving (the 4th Thursday of November) to take advantage of the holiday cheer.
One film released this summer, the Dark Knight, is talked about, not because of Chrstian Bale, its star, but [...]

Back in September, during the depressing days after Lehman collapsed, I posted a few mindless videos as distractions of the day to get your mind off of Finance.

I’m a day late because the markets rallied pretty nicely today. But, in honor of all the chatter about quantitative easing and America going they way of Japan, here is the distraction of the day: The Vapours singing “Turning Japanese,” another classicly absurd ’80s song and video.

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From the Washington Post by the fabulous Tom Toles:

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SourceTom Toles Cartoons – Washington Post

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This morning I woke up and was listening to Bloomberg Radio in bed when I heard Robert Shiller and John Ryding talking about about Paul Krugman. I quickly realized he was the Nobel Laureate in Economics for this year. Krugman, the Princeton Professor, is much better known for his leftist politics today than for [...]