{"id":12462,"date":"2011-03-12T10:00:04","date_gmt":"2011-03-12T15:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/?p=12462"},"modified":"2011-03-12T10:00:04","modified_gmt":"2011-03-12T15:00:04","slug":"links-for-march-12th-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/12\/links-for-march-12th-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Links and Reading for March 12th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the more interesting and important items for March 12th :<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.barrons.com\/stockstowatchtoday\/?mod=BOL_article_full_blog_stw\">Stocks To Watch Today &#8211; Barrons.com<\/a> &#8211; In a Thursday hearing of the U.S. Senate&rsquo;s Health, Labor and Pensions Committee, Senator Tom Harkin (D, Iowa) spotlighted Bridgepoint Education (BPI), a company whose behavior represents everything that Harkin decries in the for-profit higher education industry.  Witnesses from Bridgepoint&rsquo;s academic, state and federal regulators described how the San Diego- based company had bought a small, failing university in Iowa called The Franciscan University of the Prairies so that Bridgepoint&rsquo;s online Ashford University could use the little school&rsquo;s accreditation to collect federal education dollars. The company declined an invitation to appear. Republican committee members railed against Harkin&rsquo;s pursuit of the for-profit college industry, with Mike Enzi (R, Wyo.) calling the proceedings the &ldquo;most biased and poorly executed hearings in my nearly 15 years in the Senate.&rdquo;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/globe-investor\/investment-ideas\/why-sina-might-be-bought-out\/article1935506\/\">Why Sina might be bought out &#8211; The Globe and Mail<\/a> &#8211; In 18 months, it has created from scratch a Twitter-like service called Sina Weibo that &ndash; as of last month &ndash; surpassed 100 million users. That&#039;s something that took Twitter twice the amount of time.&lt;br \/&gt;<br \/>\n&lt;br \/&gt;<br \/>\nTo call Weibo a Twitter clone does it a disservice. It&#039;s actually much more functional than Twitter with a superior Apple iPhone application, commenting and forwarding system, along with instant messaging and location-based services. It is more of a combination of Twitter and Facebook that a pure copycat of Twitter.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2011-03-11\/apple-poised-to-sell-600-000-ipad-2s-in-its-debut-outpacing-first-model.html\">Apple May Sell 600,000 IPad 2s in Debut, Outpacing First Model &#8211; Bloomberg<\/a> &#8211; Apple Inc. (AAPL) may sell 600,000 of the second version of the iPad when it debuts this weekend, extending the device&rsquo;s lead in a crowding market.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/video\/67534860\/\">Powerful Quake Rocks Japan, Triggers Deadly Tsunami &#8211; Video &#8211; Bloomberg<\/a> &#8211; March 11 (Bloomberg) &#8212; Japan was struck by its strongest earthquake in at least a century, an 8.9-magnitude temblor that shook buildings across Tokyo and unleashed a tsunami as high as 10 meters, engulfing towns along the northern coast. At least 26 people were killed by the 33-foot wave and many are missing, according to state broadcaster NHK Television. Bloomberg&#039;s Mike Firn reports. (Source: Bloomberg)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2011-03-10\/merkel-is-said-to-support-lower-bailout-rates-on-debt-for-greece-ireland.html\">Merkel Said to Back Lower Bailout Rates for Greece, Ireland &#8211; Bloomberg<\/a> &#8211; German Chancellor Angela Merkel told lawmakers she would back lower interest rates for emergency loans if Greece agrees to sell state assets and Ireland backs a common corporate tax base in the euro region.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the more interesting and important items for March 12th : Stocks To Watch Today &#8211; Barrons.com &#8211; In a Thursday hearing of the U.S. Senate&rsquo;s Health, Labor and Pensions Committee, Senator Tom Harkin (D, Iowa) spotlighted Bridgepoint Education (BPI), a company whose behavior represents everything that Harkin decries in the for-profit higher education [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[262],"tags":[218,483],"class_list":["post-12462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recentreads","tag-linkfest","tag-markets","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}