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• Wow Great Article from Dave Winer ! Is the panic over Detroit real? (Scripting News) November 18, 2008
  wow, can’t say this enough: We Are All In It Together! …. In online discussions people say we should let the companies fail — they scare me even more, because they don’t understand how much our lives depend on each others. That was clear in New Orleans after Katrina. They couldn’t re-open the restaurants not because there [...]
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• Where To Find Girls??? hehehe November 18, 2008
  Q: What the … your buddy JackO is getting married? And you chose to just drop that on us with absolutely no set-up? I don’t know where along the line of listening to the podcasts, I developed my fake relationship with JackO, but I did. I was psychotically 100 percent sure that we would have [...]
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• Note To Self Need To Learn How To Write Academic Papers Like Prose! November 18, 2008
  Back in 1998 I argued that the Bank of Japan needed to find a way to “credibly promise to be irresponsible.” That didn’t go down too well, but it was what sober, careful economic analysis prescribed. Or as I said in the linked paper, The whole subject of the liquidity trap has a sort of Alice-through-the-looking-glass quality. [...]
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• Who Would Have Thought?(Arnold the Terminator Edition) November 18, 2008
  Republicans Dive Deeper into Fantasy If there is a prominent reality-based Republican officeholder, his name is Arnold Schwarenegger. Paul Krugman has evidence that there is no prominent reality-based Republican officeholder: Grasping Reality with Both Hands: The Semi-Daily Journal of Economist Brad DeLong: Republicans Dive Deeper into Fantasy.
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• ESPN - Denver vs. Boston - Box Score - November 14, 2008 November 15, 2008
  I liked that rondo had a steal for every assists, though they lost, to an increasingly looking good denver team. Rajon Rondo, PG 30 1-8 0-1 0-0 0 0 0 7 7 0 1 3 2 ESPN - Denver vs. Boston - Box Score - November 14, 2008.
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• Proper Framing Of The HealthCare Debate! November 13, 2008
  “Every American has a right to affordable, high-quality health care,” Mr. Baucus said. “Americans cannot wait any longer.” Far from being a distraction from efforts to revive the economy, he said, “health reform is an essential part of restoring America’s economy and maintaining our competitiveness.” Senator Takes Initiative on Health Care - NYTimes.com.
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• Unintended Consequences Welfare Mothers Edition November 13, 2008
  ouch The number of welfare claims unambiguously decreased, but at what cost? More education increases the value of your human capital which leads to higher wages and more self-sufficiency. The authors wonder if discouraging education might ultimately leave the women more dependent on state benefits than they would if education were encouraged. The trade-off is a [...]
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• Seeing Yourself–Against Summers - Finance Blog - Felix Salmon - Market Movers - Portfolio.com November 12, 2008
  I have to confess that I have this character failing that I am slowly trying to change, Its a combination of not wanting to waste time (from ikiru–”I don’t have that kind of time”) and somewhat being bored with establishing context for effective communication. I think its a patience thing! And Summers, like Paulson, is really [...]
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• Gary Becker Thinks the Most Addictive Thing Is LOVE November 11, 2008
  Damn, I want to fall in love, need to get out of this cursed over rationality! When he first said this, it sounded kind of crazy to me. What does it mean to say that people are addictive? Then I thought more about it, and I think he is right. Falling in love is the ultimate addiction. [...]
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• Daily Life Accounting November 11, 2008
  from Del Harris ht to Eric Musselman: It’s hard to find a job in this life that is always interesting and exciting over a 50-year period. In the end, the value of anyone’s job probably is determined by relationships that are formed more than the wins and the money. Because as we have found out, the [...]
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