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Brooks: The Young and the Scarce
Brooks has a good piece on scarcity. In other words, a generation that built the only functioning economy of abundance in history (online) is about to take power for 8-12 years, when shortages, firewalling, hoarding, and disconnectivity will be core … Continue reading
Note To All Economist Wannabes
Try not to do well in your economics classes. It’ll help. But there are at least 15,000 professional economists in this country, and you’re saying only two or three of them foresaw the mortgage crisis? Ten or 12 would be … Continue reading
End of the GOP
Agree with Krugman on this. When McCain loses, it will herald the end of the GOP that was able to take up the right half of the voting spectrum. The Dems will absorb moderate conservatives as they take over centrist … Continue reading
Credit Crash Britain
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Bonuses To Go Unchecked
Here‘s the logic ($20B for MS, ML, GS alone) : “A lot of guys wouldn’t want to work this hard just for salaries,” he said. “You’d have a serious exodus from the business by a lot of really talented people … Continue reading