Sunday, October 30, 2011

Is consistency too much to ask?

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Paul Krugman points out a nasty trick : In legal terms, the program is funded not just by today’s payroll taxes, but by accumulated past sur...
Saturday, October 29, 2011

Pre-blogging David Carr

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I'm working on a couple of journalism posts (one about victimology and the other a reply to this post from Andrew Gelman). David Carr fi...
Friday, October 28, 2011

California Pension Reform

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I have always had a fascination with California politics and we've talked a lot about personal finance. So I read this reform proposed ...

Another cautionary tale of corruption by metrics

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This American Life has a great piece of radio up on their site. (You can get a free download if you hurry.) It's the account of a patro...
Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Felix Salmon on the implosion of Netflix

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Felix Salmon has a great post up on Netflix. You should definitely read the whole thing but this passage in particular caught my eye: In hi...

Is this an expression you want to see on the face of a woman holding a giant axe?

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Just in time for Halloween (via TPM ):

A Luddite Portfolio

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Radio was supposed to kill newspapers, as were newsreels, slick magazines, television, and the internet. There was even a short-lived attemp...

Tragic alignment

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This NPR report about how the foster care system in South Dakota treats Native American families is an exceptionally powerful piece of jou...
Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Interesting Trading Idea

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The reformed broker has a great post on ten things not to do as an individual investor . Here is one that I think is worth keeping in mind ...
Monday, October 24, 2011

A tweet from Matt Yglesias

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Seriously amazing how much better digital over the air looks than "HD" cable with compression. Isn't this the same argument Ma...

The secret of (unintentional) comedy is timing

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I don't know much about academic publishing so I'm probably missing some of the subtleties here but this certainly seems to be a sit...
Saturday, October 22, 2011

I could not disagree more

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One of the things that makes cities tolerable is public land (as private parties cannot possibly own enough land for this effect) where ther...
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Friday, October 21, 2011

Great catch from Jared Bernstein -- four years of your life for a lousy, stinking 0.1% a year

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Bernstein has been doing exceptional work lately. Here he points out a genuinely shocking statistic: Second point: again, Steve’s not at al...
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Occasionally I feel a little down...

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Some mornings I don't feel like getting out of bed. There are times when I don't feel like being around people. Sometimes I feel sad...
Thursday, October 20, 2011

Possibly the best graph of the year

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I think Jared Bernstein is trying to tell us something. In terms of column inches, this can really help a blogger's productivity.