Links for Tuesday Afternoon

• Common scams to keep an eye out for and be aware of.  From Stuart Pfeifer of the Los Angeles Times
• Warren Buffet adjusting his bets due to the threat of inflation.  From Bloomberg
• China does nothing to help global growth.  From Bloomberg
• Stock market volume extremely low.  Short post with some good graphs from ZeroHedge blog.
• News on drug/narcotics smuggling and violence in Mexico.  Tracy Wilkinson reporting for the LA Times
• Jennifer Taub of University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Writing on the commonly told canard of President Obama raising taxes.  Highly recommended reading.  Over at the relatively new and outstanding ParetoCommons blog
• British actress Emma Thompson gets a well-deserved Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame last Friday (August 6).
• Some absolutely outstanding photojournalism at the LA Times.  Luis Sinco is the photographer giving us a view into the life of  Marine and Iraq War veteran James Blake Miller. 16 minutes of emotionally moving photography and overlapping audio.  Highly recommended