Waiting for the next woman justice on the court!
There is a fabulous interview with Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg by Emily Bazelon in today’s NYTimes. I think that she is quite a remarkable woman and her insights into many of the recent decisions of the Court are well worth a 4 page read. I think that special attention should be addressed to [...]
I believe I can fly
Jason pointed this out when I was visiting him in Sevilla. From an (unedited?) obituary on investment banker Albert Gordon in the NYTimes. Absolutely priceless.
Mr. Gordon arrived on Wall Street in 1925 as a new Harvard Business School graduate, to take a job as a statistician with Goldman. He traveled an immense territory selling [...]
Dumb as we wanna be
Friedman pulls out a good one.
My fellow Americans, we can’t continue in this mode of “Dumb as we wanna be.” We’ve indulged ourselves for too long with tax cuts that we can’t afford, bailouts of auto companies that have become giant wealth-destruction machines, energy prices that do not encourage investment in 21st-century renewable power systems [...]
Yay for tariffs
Another gem from the NYTimes boards in response to Krugman being vacuous and unspecific.
One of my degrees is a specialization in the political, social and economic history of the 1930s. Prof. Krugman has nailed the central question about the current collapse. The 2008 economic crash is mimicking the 129-32 collapse. The remedies on the [...]
Self sufficiency on the NYTimes boards
As Matt points out, “Damn, that’s an impressive comment“:
A middle-aged man stopped me in the store yesterday, pointed to the fresh pineapples in my cart and asked me if I was going to prepare them myself. He had a small, “cored” pineapple in his cart and noticed that it cost more than the two large [...]
Trust us
As with Anna Karina, we prefer to remember the U.S.A as she was in the 1960s.
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