So forget the ants from Pi. You know, the ones that produced the stock-market-predicting, answer-to-life-having goo? Ya those. They’re so a decade ago. All you need now to predict the stock market is Charlie Sheen’s #winning and what Justin Bieber is eating for lunch. Really.
If you’re not watching Fareed Zakaria’s program on CNN (or on Podcast :), you’re missing out on what we all lament news programs should be like when we watch The Daily Show rip apart the bobble-heads and noise-chambers of Fox and MSNBC.
With all of the Obama economic plan-talk, how come no one is framing these issues as the failures of Friedmanite economic theory vs. the benefits of Keynsian economic theory? We have already argued Keynes vs. Friedman in the public sphere and we seem to have to come to agree to disagree – split along party [...]
Last Spring I read the Shock Doctrine and for a few months I was an evangelist for it’s ideas to everyone I talked to. But somehow the Shock Doctrine’s central thesis wasn’t the most present thing in my mind during this week’s financial meltdown. I guess I was so distracted by the Fed Chairman Ben [...]
So I was talking with a tax attorney the other day and he was trying to convince me that Obama would tax the middle and upper-middle class more than McCain to redistribute the wealth down to the poor. This, he argued, would be putting an undue pressure on the “middle-class” therefore McCain was their real [...]
Cool Visualization Shows World’s Spending On Electronics By Country (We Spend A Lot)
(via Vanity Fair) When we look back someday at the catastrophe that was the Bush administration, we will think of many things: the tragedy of the Iraq war, the shame of Guantánamo and Abu Ghraib, the erosion of civil liberties. The damage done to the American economy does not make front-page headlines every day, but [...]