Best tweets of past week

Some of the best tweets (or at least my favorites) I have seen this week (not all are finance related)

Wayne Marr is simply amazing. Has so many interesting tweets he may personally be the cause of my total lack of productivity some days. But in a good way :) A few of his tweets:

1. Was there Really a #Hawthorne Effect at the Hawthorne #Plant? An Analysis of the Original Experiments http://tinyurl.com/oznr2u
   
2. New York Fed: Dudley: A Preliminary Assessment of the TALF http://tinyurl.com/qpy8xg
3. #SSRN #HedgeFunds, #SystemicRisk, and the Financial Crisis of 2007-2008: Written Testimony, Andy Lo, MIT http://bit.ly/SiltW
4. #SSRN Miraculous #FinancialEngineering or #Toxic #Finance? The Genesis of the U.S. #Subprime #MortgageCrisis .. http://bit.ly/cNzEN
5. #SSRN - What Drives #Channel Choice in #Grocery #Shopping? http://bit.ly/Dr93A
6. #NBER - Why do #Institutions of #HigherEducation Reward #Research While Selling #Education? http://tinyurl.com/pnczbj
7. #CorporateGovernance and Market #Liquidity http://bit.ly/iL5FQ

Tweets from SimoleoneSense

1. Video: NYU Professor On Understanding The GM Bankruptcy: Its about time I posted a Charlie Rose interview. Video.. http://tinyurl.com/pot2cg
2. Attention! Listen to Miguel Barbosa Interviewed By Real Great Stories.Com: I was recently interviewed on the Rea.. http://tinyurl.com/q2f92m
3. Bank Failures & The Deposit Insurance Fund: Article on FDIC, reserve ratios, & bank failures. Click Here To .. http://tinyurl.com/lztdut
4. Weekly Wisdom Roundup #30 (Links You Don’t Want To Miss): If you like these weekly roundups Irecommend sig.. http://tinyurl.com/noar5r

Tweets that are definitely worth reading from @Mises:

1. Cars and Government: Bad Mix: The former Car Czar of Romania, writing in the WSJ, talks about his experience in .. http://tinyurl.com/neq4mj
2. Bad News for Our Money: Suppressing market interest rates to the lowest level possible seems to have become a ke.. http://tinyurl.com/qvf45r
3. Defining the Extent of the Market: the Whole Foods Case: Anyone is a monopolist if the market is defined narrowl.. http://tinyurl.com/nga79b
4. Fed Cannot Withdraw the Money: The Fed has purchased assets at above-market prices, temporarily expanding the mo.. http://tinyurl.com/loxomp

Tweets from @HarvardBiz

1. Why GM Failed http://bit.ly/19GYvu
2. Management Tip: How to Combine Creativity and Results http://bit.ly/FzjGI
3. Could GM Factories Reinvent Themselves Now as They Did in 1942? http://bit.ly/305BNc
4. The Daily Stat: An Expanded Role for Finance http://bit.ly/BlLQN
5. Do You Get Paid for Your Time? http://bit.ly/UrPJ5
6. Our Approach to Finance http://bit.ly/sxI87
7. Never Let Your Ego Stop You from Learning http://u.mavrev.com/66wm
8. How to Write a Resumé That Doesn't Annoy People http://bit.ly/qwPeD

Some Tweets from @Mashable

1. Mint Takes its Personal Finance Tools to My Yahoo http://bit.ly/Hapx9
2. Time Magazine Explains Twitter - http://bit.ly/1TquF
3. Congressman Uses Wisdom of Crowds to Redesign Website - http://bit.ly/kFbDo
4. Google Squared: Your Search Results in Spreadsheet Form - http://bit.ly/17t4gE
5. TwitDoc: Drag and Drop File Sharing for Twitter - http://bit.ly/1BOaa
6. If you're new to Twitter, our Twitter how-tos & resources section is the place to start: http://bit.ly/163Pmp

Two news items from @CanWire

1. Microsoft considers moving jobs offshore under Obama tax plan - http://tweeting.ca/0b7 (Bloomberg.com)
2. Steve Jobs returns from sick leave - http://tweeting.ca/0b8 (Telegraph Newspaper)

Assorted other tweets

• @researchpuzzler a look at $GDX versus $GLD over the last year http://tinyurl.com/m5k4w9

• @robthetechguy Tech Crunch: Google Finance Sheds Its Beta Label Three Years After Launch; Still Can’t Touch Yahoo http://bit.ly/lA72T

• @MilkenInstutute: Milken Institute proposal to fix the U.S. housing market - homeowner principal forgiveness vesting plan - FT.com http://tinyurl.com/kw9uq7

Less Finance Related

• From @economicwoman: Reading minutes, I have to wonder if UN agencies would benefit from some artificial scarcity of meetings. Maybe a system of tokens?

Wow. Great idea! I wonder if SBU (where I teach) can do the same!

• From @climateproject: climate crisis: share your solutions http://bit.ly/N5PkmBTW you can also see what others submitted here.

• From SimoleonSense: Breathtaking Videos Of Human Impact On The Planet - The Earth From Above:: Interesting video from one of the bes.. http://tinyurl.com/plslqj

• From @Lura_ForcumA great article on applying MBA skills to development work in Africa -- featuring Kelley alum Khary Dickerson: http://is.gd/PgLg

• From @velostreamPhilanthropic Cycling... catch the bug. http://bycride.org
  

and then one from me (via BonaResponds)

• @BonaResponds One of the things I like about Olean, just waited in short line of traffic. The hold up? two dogs walking down middle of the street :)