January 2010
10 posts
Taxing Wall Street Down to Size →
How Bush slashed inflation on paper, using... →
plasticbag.org: Should we encourage self-promotion... →
tiffehr:
I’d never argue that we should forcefully reject anyone who manifests confidence, skills in self-promotion or who is cocky enough to sell themselves. But what I want to strongly resist is the idea that it is these attributes that we should be promoting - either in women or in men.
It should be unacceptable for us to say that lying about one’s abilities is something that everyone...
“in its fact-free and inflexible defense of a particular economic ideology, a...”
– Kedrosky nails it in Chicago School of Economics Circles the Theoretical Drain, in response to a supposed economist who explains that the markets crashed in the fall of 2008 because the President said they were crashing. Not because of the revelation of untold trillions in fake money cut like...