Also, because I lack a comprehensive bookmark management system these days: http://www.thebaffler.com/past/the_long_con/print. I don’t expect many of my right-leaning acquaintances will enjoy reading this so you have been forewarned. The project? A wiki that documents the web of connections between movement conservatives and their dealings in the marketplace. There would also have to be some…
Historically: Three coffee pots, two regular and one decaf = one half-filled decaf, one empty regular pot sitting on a burner that is on and one nearly empty regular pot This week: Two coffee pots, one regular and one decaf = one half-filled decaf and one regular with barely enough coffee to cover the bottom…
This essay dovetails quite nicely with what I’ve been thinking w/r/t the current economic climate. The bizarre discounting of risk, the flood of money without anything concrete behind it. I got seriously interested in growth investment in the early/middle 90s but all the historical measures indicators like P/E ratio no longer seemed to apply. The…
MeFi does some things poorly. It does other topics quite well. This he-said she-said over the possible US economic collapse is insightful even if the FPP contains some dubious linkage.
Black poverty in Omaha, Nebraska. | MetaFilter is a nice roundup of links coming from an intermittent series put out by the Omaha World Herald. By nice I mean convenient. The poverty itself and the problems it generates are not nice in the least.
Buried in a MeFi thread was a link to Peter Schiff‘s latest essay on the US economy. If what he writes is true, then we are quite possibly way more fscked than previously believed. Yes, Mr. Schiff is notorious for his bearish views on the US economy. However, he lays out how the government is…
Pastabagel always seems to come up with some interesting angles on economic issues. His comment here: And yes, the band did play on. | MetaFilter is scary when considered in that light.