MeFi post:
The Coming Collapse of the Middle Class
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6 days ago
MeFi comment:
"you can believe that Palin was chosen because her record as a reformer was so strong
apparently, according to brooks' people fwiw, she was picked because:what he saw when he looked at her, according to the people I spoke to, is someone who fights..." [
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6 days ago
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"re: post-partisanship (and abortion ;) i liked kaine's formulation:here's the distinction between Senator Obama and Senator McCain. Senator Obama believes abortion is a grave moral issue, that we can do things to reduce unwanted pregnancy and..." [
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8 days ago
MeFi comment:
"fwiw: The National Health Insurance Program is different, according to the Indian government, because of its use of technology; its business model, in which insurance companies and hospitals are given incentives to take part; and because the..." [
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10 days ago
MeFi comment:
"fwiw, paul collier is worth listening to, cf.
kinda OT, but here's salmon on creative capitalism (the weblog), "Give Bill Gates, Mike Kinsley, and Conor Clark credit: if their Creative Capitalism project achieves nothing else, it has..." [
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11 days ago
MeFi comment:
"re: payment systems
India's Poor Get Health Care in a Card - India has earmarked $1 billion for the rollout of a program that allows the country's poor to use a smart card to receive hospital care and gives insurance companies and hospitals..." [
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11 days ago
MeFi comment:
"i think the free market mantra is too often confused (on purpose!?) with efficient markets (i.e. when they work and make sense, and aren't gamed, cf. perfect information ;) altho there are perhaps innovative market and/or 'private' non-gov't..." [
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11 days ago
MeFi comment:
"kinda OT: "The local Hellenes are at once bemused, suspicious and surreptitiously grateful. Since 1990, once-homogenous Greece has received a vast influx of labour migrants from ex-communist Europe, Africa and Asia." + from that olympic sex..." [
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2 weeks ago
MeFi post:
Virtual Thinking
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Last month
MeFi post:
you say you want an evolution
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Last month
MeFi post:
On this day of resurrection...
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Last month
MeFi comment:
"on a similar note:
Life-changing books: recommendations from 17 leading scientists" [
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Last month
MeFi post:
The political-economy perspective on women's rights
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Last month
MeFi comment:
"oops, noticed that the "when the average isn't that useful" link was wrong (altho related); it should've been for a "new way to build a better estimate," which actually kinda bears on the discussion :P...large data sets are..." [
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3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"here's the previous post fwiw :P
also see:The National Association for Business Economics sounded a warning on a topic near and dear to its heart this morning: economic indicators.
A statement from the chair of the NABE’s statistics committee,..." [
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4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"for those wanting to follow along here's a list of some finance/econ (we)blogs, in no particular order :Pbrad setser's blogroubini'scalculated riskaleaalephinterfluidityeconbrowsereconomist's viewhousing wireinformation arbitrage [cf.]brad delong's..." [
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5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"oh and if you had to read one thing "in Financial Disaster for Dummies style" i'd recommend james hamilton's "Asking too much of monetary policy" and if you want a prequel of sorts i'd try brad delong's "Three cures for three..." [
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5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"fwiw, what does iraq cost?
and btw ultracapacitors! or there will be blood :P" [
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6 months ago
MeFi comment:
"and if anyone's still following along :P
cheers!" [
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6 months ago
MeFi comment:
"the economist weighs in :P [cf.] ...with another neat map!" [
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6 months ago
MeFi comment:
"re: "smart decline" -- rescuing kalamazoo:KALAMAZOO, a medium-sized post-industrial city in Michigan, shares the problems of countless such others across America. Its population is shrinking and its poverty rate hovers around 30%. But in..." [
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6 months ago
MeFi comment:
"oh and here's fareed zakaria on the 'experience' factor:This is the problem with Hillary Clinton. She is highly intelligent, has real experience and is an attractive candidate. But she is terrified to act on her beliefs. In fact, she seems so..." [
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7 months ago
MeFi comment:
"thanks!
fwiw, here's a 'rare' (i didn't see it on the interview site ;) alan moore interview that i liked a lot:MDA: I have a great attraction to theories like Sheldrake's morphic resonance - I read an interview with him, when he was talking about..." [
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7 months ago
MeFi comment:
"how on earth did the speculators get that much economic power?
shadow banking! (a fairer treatment of derivatives btw) + (mal)incentives... [cf ;]
fwiw, here're some other articles i've found helpful recently:The start of the great..." [
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7 months ago
MeFi comment:
"not sure it beats THX loris/tarsier, but this was definitely more informative, thanks!
btw, sorta off topic but can anyone recommend any other cool TED talks? so far i've enjoyed malcolm gladwell on spaghetti sauce, hans rosling on development..." [
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7 months ago
MeFi comment:
"strongly encouraging or limiting a woman's reproduction to one child
'solutions' needn't (and shouldn't) be coercive, as eo wilson once said:The decline in global population growth is attributable to three interlocking social forces: the..." [
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7 months ago
MeFi comment:
"re: wealth concentration*
raghuram rajan & martin wolf make some suggestions; also see the FT's editorial comment over the weekend, 'the start of the great unwinding', cf. 'what has the Credit Crisis taught us?'
as others have pointed out,..." [
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7 months ago
