Archive for October, 2008
Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008
The cost of a maid
I am feeling guilty today. On my day off, I sat around, slept, ate and generally watched my Indonesian maid clean my home. Wait. Right there, just after the first line, I have made two lies. My door was closed, and I was asleep (both precluding my actual viewing) and she is not my maid, [...]
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Tuesday, October 21st, 2008
If this is what he ’should do’, it is OVER!
http://www.economist.com/world/unitedstates/displaystory.cfm?story_id=12429421
There are three things McCain should do, according to this article:
1) Talk about economics, and how Obama doesn’t have much experience. Granted it is a page right out of a good prtion of the Republican rulebook to attack an opponents strengths, but McCain needs a counter message to do so. With 13 days to go, [...]
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Tuesday, October 21st, 2008
Who pays the income tax
Stolen from Mankiw: The answer, is, not so many….around 43 to 45% of people, according to his data, pay no tax, irrespective of who wins.
http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2008/10/who-pays-income-tax.html
I would love to get a further look at this data…love to…as in theoretically, but not actually willing to do any of the leg-work. I would be interested in two things: [...]
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Saturday, October 18th, 2008
I love how, in the brain, revenge = pleasure
http://www.predictablyirrational.com/?p=301
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Thursday, October 16th, 2008
Don’t F with the Media
http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/13/mccain-the-media-money-and-montesinos-and-obama-too/#more-3160
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Thursday, October 16th, 2008
What true victory would be on election Day
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/10/16/133035/59/1022/632587
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Thursday, October 16th, 2008
Never Let it go by Ishiguro
I can not remember reading a more powerfully brilliant and depressing book. What made the story so effective was the indifference that the main characters battled against. Their whole existence is just out on a marginal parcel of reality which the rest of their world would love to ignore, and they do. Everything about this [...]
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Thursday, October 16th, 2008
Redistribution of wealth
came across this idea twice today. Once here http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2008/10/rorschach-test.html and once on the Daily Show interview with Ari Fleisher. In both cases, they brought up the scary Obama notion of ‘re-distrusting the wealth. Of course, Stewart, being one of the few media people worth a dam, did mention the upward collection of money, and asked [...]
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Monday, October 13th, 2008
How might we know when the crisis is resolving
http://calculatedrisk.blogspot.com/2008/10/credit-crisis-watching-for-signs-of.html
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Monday, October 13th, 2008
An Economic Nobel winner on British Food
http://web.mit.edu/krugman/www/mushy.html
