Hackonomists
A lot of liberal bloggers (e.g. Steve Clemons and Ezra Klein ) are annoyed at Obama for choosing Jason Furman, a centrist business-school p...
Obamanomics is fine by me
Steve Clemons at TPMCafe worries that Obama's team of economic advisors is too "neoliberal" (i.e., believes too much in marke...
We want communism!
Last night I was flipping through channels, and I noticed Lou Dobbs AND Glenn Beck's stand-in both complaining about high gas prices, an...
Wanted: Obamanomics
Newsweek has a decent article about the recession . To make a long story short, this one's probably going to last a while: maybe as long...
Gas prices vs. American aggression, cont.
So that's why Indian business is so strong
The new chairman of the Sardar Bhagat Singh College of Technology and Management in northern India is...well... see for yourself . Good thin...
The flat world ain't so flat no more
When Thomas Friedman coined the horribly dumb-sounding metaphor of the "flat world," he just meant that transport costs were comi...
The Needham Question
The Economist reviews a biography of Joseph Needham, the quirky British scientist and historian who obsessed over the question of why Chine...
Unity ticket my arse!
After refusing to gracefully spare the Democratic party two months of pain, Hillary " The Deranged Narcissist " Clinton was finall...
Growth is Good: Obama edition
Ezra Klein may not think much of WaPo columnist Sebastian Mallaby, but I've gotta say, the man occasionally comes out with a truly exce...
Also, no hurricane has ever been policed away
Jollygreen alerts me to an article in which Britain's Hugh Orde, police chief in Northern Ireland, says Britain should talk to al-Qaeda ...
Or we could be smart...
The WaPo reports that pro-American sentiment is on the upswing in Iran again, as people realize that Ahmadinejad and his gang of Revolution...
