“It’s time to let the sun shine in on this mess.” via Scott Loftesness: The AIG Firestorm Spreads. Hear hear.
Tag: USA
Quotation of the Day: “I’m Captain Asphalt.” TIMOTHY J. GILCHRIST, newly appointed stimulus czar for New York State. via Today’s Paper – New York Times. Love this. Is civil engineering…
Suit Names 2 Judges Accused in a Kickback Case – NYTimes.com. This case just stuns me. The plea agreement is way too lenient. And every kid who passed thru these…
Warren Buffett: “We don’t know the perfect answers on it. What we do know is to stand by and do nothing is a terrible mistake…” via Marginal Revolution: The best…
Force Structure FY09 Beyond. — the armed forces wrestling with massive budget cuts. And the global manufacturing collapse — not a pretty picture. It is hard to see how we…
Marginal Revolution: GM fact of the day. Wow. Market cap 1/3 of bed bath and beyond. Worth 10% of apple’s cash. 96K employees but paying benefits for 1M people. Some…
You disappoint me, America: $10,000 worth of iPhone farting apps sold (so far). We are off investing in high concept, deep science startups that have to do all kinds of…
Madoff Story Smells Funny | The Big Picture. The WSJ and NYTimes seem to be hinting at this today too, investigators seem to feel that the sheer amount of work…
Rich, with his reflections on the recent election, has inspired me to share a few of my own personal thoughts. Like many commentators, I am inspired by the actions of…
A SWOT Analysis On America. Don’t agree with many of the detailed points but the core idea of looking at our situation with a SWOT analysis is a good idea. …
House Rejects Bailout Package, 228-205; Stocks Plunge – NYTimes.com — wow. going to get uglier. i think main street wants to see people going to jail, i don’t think constituents…
On the today show, the figure $900B was thrown around as the total cost of bailouts so far (Bear, Fannie and Freddie, AIG). That is about $3,000 for every citizen…
Nice post from Phil pointing out the huge debt incurred by either Obama or McCain plans. The critical thing to consider is the trillions of dollars being added to the…
chartjunk » Blog Archive » Tax Plans (that’s one for you, nineteen for me) — nice charting. i’ve done no research to understand the veracity but nice chart.
Technology Review: Does the U.S. Need a CTO?. Interesting proposition. What is the reason not to have one? You can debate how active the CTO should be and how much…
Marginal Revolution: The Return of the Zombie: “The Congressional Budget Office estimates that there is only a 7% probability that someone born in 2000 will receive their Social Security benefits…
* HP working on solar PV, IBM putting a billion dollars into green datacenters, Intel spinning out a PV firm — nice to see the IT leaders getting behind alternate…
* bcurtisBLOG » People are talking about water… — nice chart on where all our water goes. Only 13% for household use. A huge amount to thermoelectric power generation. *…
blog.pmarca.com: Brad DeLong on trade and wages — excellent articulation of the China strategy that makes sense to me — basically, lets be great friends with them. (I guess this…