America 2010

Stuff like this is hard to believe.

School drops race-based rules for elections - U.S. news - Life - Race & ethnicity - msnbc.com

Bring Your Genes to Brandeis - Grasping Reality with Both Hands

Bring Your Genes to Brandeis - Grasping Reality with Both Hands

taxes and wall street

The real reason that Wall Street has turned against Obama. They hate taxes. More precisely, they hate when they are taxed.

NYT Story on Wall Street’s Fallout with Obama Misses the Dead Bodies � naked capitalism

The audacity of hedge fund billionaires complaining about taxes. As my old boss used to say "Big taxes mean big cash".

Men Can Now Sit Next to Unaccompanied Minors on Airplanes | Strollerderby

Obviously this guy never sat next to my kids.

Men Can Now Sit Next to Unaccompanied Minors on Airplanes | Strollerderby

Growth in a Buddhist Economy - Project Syndicate

The importance of GNH.

Growth in a Buddhist Economy - Project Syndicate

TDS on Fox News: Stupid or Evil ? | The Big Picture

Potatoes with mouths.

TDS on Fox News: Stupid or Evil ? | The Big Picture

Growth: Pity Japan | The Economist

Per capita gnp is also stagnant in Japan.

Growth: Pity Japan | The Economist

Economist's View: Paul Krugman: Now That’s Rich

Economist's View: Paul Krugman: Now That’s Rich

AwesomenessReminders | About Us

AwesomenessReminders | About Us

Economist's View: "It Could Have Been Much Worse"

Economist's View: "It Could Have Been Much Worse"

Economist's View: "It Could Have Been Much Worse"

Economist's View: "It Could Have Been Much Worse"

The Wilson Quarterly: America: Land of Loners? by Daniel Akst

The Wilson Quarterly: America: Land of Loners? by Daniel Akst

Obsidian Wings: Serve the Servants

The military complex might be more powerful under Obama than it was under Bush. Cheney was friends with the Generals. Obama might fear them.

Obsidian Wings: Serve the Servants

Kaufman’s Better Ideas On Market Structure | The Big Picture

Kaufman’s Better Ideas On Market Structure | The Big Picture

Rajiv Sethi: On Broken Trades and Bailouts

Composition of trading strategies in the market changes over time. This explains why quant fund investing goes in and out of favor.

Rajiv Sethi: On Broken Trades and Bailouts

For Strippers Near Ground Zero, Mosque Debate Goes On But It's Business as Usual - Metropolis - WSJ

Sometimes the WSJ gets it right.

For Strippers Near Ground Zero, Mosque Debate Goes On But It's Business as Usual - Metropolis - WSJ

How Would You Simplify the Financial-Reform Bill? A Freakonomics Quorum - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com

How Would You Simplify the Financial-Reform Bill? A Freakonomics Quorum - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com

Spending Tax Stimulus = $1 Trillion Dollars | The Big Picture

Spending Tax Stimulus = $1 Trillion Dollars | The Big Picture

Tomgram: Chalmers Johnson, Portrait of a Sagging Empire | TomDispatch

Tomgram: Chalmers Johnson, Portrait of a Sagging Empire | TomDispatch

Fair and Balanced? You Decide

At least they made the decision process quite easy.

News Corp. defends $1 million donation to Republican Governors Association

Worked for me

Just spent a week in the GC without iphone and pc. I think it was the first free week since 1991.

Your Brain on Computers - Studying the Brain Off the Grid, Professors Find Clarity - NYTimes.com

J.P. Morgan at Work |

Structured derivatives leave only victims, benefit only banks.

J.P. Morgan at Work | Beat the Press

Perry v. Schwarzenegger: News Desk : The New Yorker

Perry v. Schwarzenegger: News Desk : The New Yorker

That's life

Bloomberg: "That's life"

This Is Not My Normal Beat (Bloomberg & Mosque Dept) ... -

Politics - The Atlantic

Here be Dragons

Asia Times Online :: South Asia news, business and economy from India and Pakistan

David Stockman on the Fall of the Republican Party

Op-Ed Contributor - Four Deformations of the Apocalypse - NYTimes.com

Unions and Productivity

Summer Rerun: Debunking the Notion that Unions Hurt Productivity � naked capitalism