September 2008
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me: http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/29/miron.bailout/index.html
friend: this article
friend: you sent me
friend: is basically you talking
me: I know
me: that's why I like it
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All you want to do is streetfight →
Awesome songs about Street Fighter 2 characters. I think Guile is in love with Chun Li who is in love with Vega.
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Commentary: Bankruptcy, not bailout, is the right... →
This is an article by one of my favorite college professors, and I think I agree with every word of it.
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“From my point of view, [Net neutrality is] an artificial problem created out of...”
– Net neutrality is an ‘American problem’: Insight - Communications - ZDNet Australia
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Top 10 Articles About the Financial Crisis «... →
“At the Ben & Jerry’s factory in Waterbury, consumers gave a collective...”
– ABC News: Mama’s Milk Ice Cream Cone, Anyone?
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“An inflationist Keynesian and an aggressive advocate of printing-press...”
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What Made the Next Depression Worse - Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. - Mises Institute
(written in 2005 by an Austrian economist when Bernanke was still just chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers)
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“The weak correlation between asset prices and non-financial sector performance...”
– Supply and Demand: Wall Street Will Drown Alone
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JC: so mccain is trying not to debate?
me: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/25/us/politics/25mccain.html?hp
JC: i hate everybody
JC: this country is fucked
JC: not really
JC: but it's fun to say
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“Based on my knowledge of pricing mortgage credit risk, I believe that the...”
– EconLog: Library of Economics and Liberty
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“And if they’re going to do something, then what they ought to do is make...”
– Massive Financial Rescue Faces Skepticism in Congress | Online NewsHour | September 23, 2008 | PBS
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“I am concerned that the bailout might be the cause of the problem that it...”
– Pajamas Media » An Alternative to the Wall Street Bailout
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“Dear American:
I need to ask you to support an urgent secret business...”
– Angry Bear: Your Urgent Help Needed
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Open Letter on the Bailout signed by many... →
Wal-Mart Cheer
→
Wow, I had no idea they did that.
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“Do we think that the short-term obsession of many shareholders of public...”
– Marginal Revolution: The return of Hayek?
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“In contrast to the dot-com case the housing bubble may be more...”
– Marginal Revolution: The return of Hayek?
Dark Roasted Blend: The Most Alien-Looking Place... →
I want to go there.
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“He tried to sound patient, and kindly, and sensible. He tried to sound as if...”
– Caprice and Rondo by Dorothy Dunnett, p. 415
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“Not at all in awe of one another, but neither harms the other’s true...”
– Caprice and Rondo by Dorothy Dunnett, p. 372
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“There was a willful designing of the systems to measure the risks in a certain...”
– How Wall Street Lied to Its Computers - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
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“Benevolent-sounding public policy therefore became a rationalization for unsound...”
– Let the Heads Roll | The Big Money
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“The economic fallout from these events is dominating the headlines. The...”
– Marginal Revolution: The culture that is French, a continuing series
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“If prehistoric people slept in two nightly periods, then regularly awakening out...”
– Slumber’s Unexplored Landscape, Science News Online (9/25/99)
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“According to this source, the FDA’s longer approval process prevents 5,000...”
– Overcoming Bias: Raised in Technophilia
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“Even the sunscreen executives will admit that they have never been able to find...”
– Sunscreen-Lowfat-Autism by Stephanie Seneff
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“Within the boneless clasp of her hands the flask tilted then languorously...”
– Caprice and Rondo by Dorothy Dunnett, p. 298
Personality variation by region (USA) →
Personality variation by region
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Why home ownership causes unemployment. →
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“Her ankles were the finest he had ever caught sight of, to the extent of being...”
– Caprice and Rondo by Dorothy Dunnett, p. 155
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“To an outsider they were two professionals, a nurse and a doctor. To themselves,...”
– Caprice and Rondo by Dorothy Dunnett, p. 154
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“A recent e-mail message to McCain fund-raisers unveiled new incentives to spur...”
– Forgoing Subsidy, Obama Team Presses Donors
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“Videogames are becoming the new hotbed of scientific thinking for kids today.”
– Games Without Frontiers: How Videogames Blind Us With Science
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“His hair is all dorky-cool and it’s like he’s impersonating somebody...”
– Gossip Girl Season 2 Episode 1 Recap
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“Both candidates claim to support transparency in government, but only one...”
– Obama is RESTful » Idol Hands: Days in the Life of an Alpha Geek
“Chimps are human? Never. Chimps are people? You decide.”
– BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Chimps ‘are people, too’
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“T.C.: Unlike you I don’t see McCain as such a strong candidate. This may...”
– Tyler Cowen and Ezra Klein on Palin’s Speech and What Obama and McCain Would Each Accomplish — or Not — As President
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A letter from someone who has known Sarah Palin... →
This is definitely the best overview of Sarah Palin I’ve read yet.
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Will Palin mention that Alaska is very close to... →
I love betting markets.
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“‘You must speak to Robin,’ she had said. But of course, what she...”
– Caprice and Rondo by Dorothy Dunnett, p. 55 