This weekend we drove all over Will, Grundy, Livingston and Kankakee counties in Illinois scoping out places to find Mazon Creek fossils (yes, we drove over the Mazon Creek or River several times but did not go into the town of Mazon). While we did not find many good fossil sites until [...]

Last July, the SEC retired the Uptick Rule. The rule was promulgated in the aftermath of the Great Crash of 1929 and requires that a short position in a stock may not be established unless the stock has most recently ticked up in price. People in general do not understand what shorting is (I [...]