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Friday, August 15, 2008

Podcast of the Day

Nassim Taleb Says Crisis Continues Until Banks' Management Changes
Posted by Marshall Jevons at 7:06 PM
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My Blog List

  • Crooked Timber
    WaPo: Surveying the flaming wreckage - A DC-based friend wrote today to say that he had finally abandoned the Washington Post, a paper he used to really like. The final straw was this piece alle...
    2 hours ago
  • Bits
    Google Voice Goes Mobile - Google Voice is now easier to use in some mobile phones with a new application available on BlackBerry and Android devices.
    2 hours ago
  • The Caucus
    Obama Throws a Wobbly First Pitch - President Obama threw out the first pitch at baseball's All-Star Game on Tuesday night.
    5 hours ago
  • The Beacon
    Bernie Madoff Was Only a Petty Crook Compared with Uncle Sam - Bernard Madoff was in the news again today. I quote here from a CNBC report, adding my own commentary to put the report into perspective. Disgraced financi...
    5 hours ago
  • Lifehacker
    Build a DIY Portable Air Conditioner [Beat The Heat] - We've shown you how to make an air conditioner (even for as low as $30), but what if you wanted something you can put in your car and take with you? Inst...
    6 hours ago
  • WSJ.com: Law Blog - WSJ.com
    Is Sotomayor Overly Aggressive on the Bench or Just One of the Guys? - Republican Senator Lindsey Graham "likes" Sotomayor despite that she's a terror to other lawyers.
    8 hours ago
  • The Lede
    Q. and A. on the War in Afghanistan - This week on The Lede, New York Times correspondent Richard A. Oppel Jr. will be answering questions from readers about the war in Afghanistan.
    8 hours ago
  • Gene Expression
    Cognition & Culture - In case you don't know, the Cognition & Culture group blog is of some interest. One of the contributors is Dan Sperber, who I interviewed a few years ago. ...
    8 hours ago
  • How We Drive, the Blog of Tom Vanderbilt's Traffic
    Are Roadside Memorials a Hazard? - This is an evergreen issue in highway safety, one that the New York Times has recently opened for debate. I brought up the issue recently after a trip to M...
    8 hours ago
  • FinanceProfessor.com
    What'll it be? Inflation or deflation? Or both? - Lost in the fear of inflation that has gripped many for months, is the reverse and almost silent bull market killer, deflation. In recent days however we ha...
    8 hours ago
  • Campaign for the American Reader
    What is Lois Lowry reading? - The current featured contributor to Writers Read: Lois Lowry, author of over 30 books for children, including the Newbery Award-winning Number the Stars (199...
    8 hours ago
  • Hitwise Intelligence - Bill Tancer - US
    MySpace - Returning to Entertainment? - I was living vicariously through WSJ's Julia Angwin's Mogul-fest tweets last week (ironically throughout the week she tweeted that several moguls didn't see ...
    9 hours ago
  • Well
    Mapping Workouts With iPhone GPS - Put your iPhone to work when you work out, using GPS apps that track your runs.
    9 hours ago
  • FP Passport - blogging on global news, politics, economics, and ideas
    Tina Brown's bizarre defense of Hillary Clinton - My fellow FP blogger David Rothkopf already noted the weirdly sexist overtones in Tina Brown's *Daily Beast* piece referring to Hillary Clinton as Barack...
    9 hours ago
  • Angry Bear
    House Tri-Committee Health Care Bill w/CBO Prelim Analysis - by Bruce Webb House Education and Labor:: America's Affordable Health Choices Act all links from the Committee web page. Summary Bill Text (1.7 MB PDF) ...
    10 hours ago
  • 2 Blowhards
    Rock is ... Forever? - Donald Pittenger writes: Dear Blowhards -- I'll readily admit that popular music had generally become pretty slow, sugary and, well, awful by 1954 when Bil...
    10 hours ago
  • Freakonomics
    Give Me Your Odd Pairs - I love to collect examples of bizarre pairs of goods that sellers or buyers apparently believe are complements or substitutes.
    11 hours ago
  • macroblog
    A funny thing happened update - More than a week has passed since the Regulation D changes went into effect, and it appears that the changes are having a noticeable, if not dramatic, impact...
    11 hours ago
  • Healthcare Economist
    Do for-profit hospitals reduce safety net services? - Social safety net services are necessary, but often unprofitable for hospitals. Is the expansion of HMOs and for-profit hospitals jeopardizing these safety...
    11 hours ago
  • Paper Cuts
    A Literary Garage Sale - Looking for a nice literary artifact? Edith Wharton's letters - a packet sold at auction for more than $180,000 last month - may be out of reach, but colle...
    12 hours ago
  • Mind Hacks
    Is brain death, death? - The New Atlantis magazine has an in-depth article discussing the difficulty in defining death and why arguments about the brain have become central to unders...
    12 hours ago
  • Peter Levine
    investing in democracy: the case of CARE - Investing in Democracy is Carmen Sirianni's extremely important book about how governments at all levels can help citizens and communities to collaborate in ...
    13 hours ago
  • murketing
    Linkpile - Interesting MJ sales spike detail:: “Fans are choosing CDs over digital albums,” says LA Times. Makes sense. Dude Craft: Here’s Value: About a shoe-maker’s...
    15 hours ago
  • Built on Facts
    Moon Landing Conspiracy Debunking, pt. 10^9. - A few days ago we briefly mentioned the chemtrail conspiracy theory in the context of water vapor in the atmosphere. Chemtrails are one of those conspira...
    15 hours ago
  • Cafe Hayek
    Barack Obama, Supply-Sider (by Don Boudreaux) - Here's a letter that I sent recently to the Washington Post: Seeking to encourage African governments to embrace institutions that promote economic growth, P...
    16 hours ago
  • The Harvard Law School Corporate Governance Blog
    Delaware’s Art of Judging - (Editor’s Note: This post comes to us from Katrina Dewey, CEO & Publisher, Lawdragon, Inc.) Richard Posner should have been a U.S. Supreme Court justice. I...
    17 hours ago
  • Stumbling and Mumbling
    Age & productivity - The CBI has said it is disappointed by the government’s apparent decision to allow workers to continue working past the age of 65. Some recent research, howe...
    21 hours ago
  • The Mindjet Blog
    Map Parts for MindManager Mac - Yesterday, I shared how to create a Map Part in MindManager 8 for Windows. As Catherine pointed out, I failed to explain what a map part is. Here goes: Map...
    21 hours ago
  • New America Blogs - New Voices, Innovative Ideas, Post-Partisan Policy
    A Drive By Shot at Prop 13 - Your blogger is all for overturning Prop 13, particularly the piece that required a two-thirds vote of the legislature to raise taxes. But Prop 13 is stu...
    1 day ago
  • The American Prospect Articles
    Meet the Cast of the Sotomayor Hearings - Ready for a week of Senate questioning? Here is your guide to the major players of the Sotomayor confirmation hearings.
    1 day ago
  • Stanley Fish - Think Again
    Because of Race: Ricci v. DeStefano - Ricci v. DeStefano shows that the search for a position that avoids race-consciousness will never succeed.
    1 day ago
  • Management Blog
    Ideas from under your nose - Managers dream of discovering the new new thing. Innovation is on every business leader’s lips. “We plan to launch more new products than at any time in ou...
    1 day ago
  • Oxonomics
    BIS Conference Papers - A couple of interesting looking papers on the financial crisis and the future of macroeconomics were presented at the 8th Bank of International Settlements c...
    1 day ago
  • Brad Setser: Follow the Money
    Will the Chinese Keep Saving? - This is Rachel Ziemba of RGE Monitor where this post also appears. In a recent post, Jeffrey Frankel asks will the U.S. Keep Saving? noting that despite th...
    1 day ago
  • John Battelle's Searchblog
    Twitter Grows Again - The growth is back, impressive but slower than before, but it's probably quite a relief over at Twitter HQ to see no continuation of the trend from last mo...
    1 day ago
  • The Frontal Cortex
    The Greatest Show on Earth - In the latest edition of Publisher's Weekly, I have a short review of The Greatest Show on Earth, the forthcoming book from Richard Dawkins: Richard Dawk...
    1 day ago
  • John Quiggin
    Monday Message Board - Its time once again for Monday Message Board. Post comments on any topic. As usual, civilised discussion and no coarse language.
    1 day ago
  • International Political Economy Zone
    Will Idiotic US Laws Make Asia Poker's Epicenter? - The United States, that erstwhile promoter of free trade, has long been criticized by the international community for its senseless and unwarranted clampdo...
    2 days ago
  • The Becker-Posner Blog
    Legislation on Clean Energy-Becker - In late June the House of Representatives approved The American Clean Energy and Security Act. If the Senate approves a similar version, this would constitut...
    2 days ago
  • Geary Behaviour Centre
    Neuroeconomics survey - NEUROECONOMICS - ACTUAL DIRECTIONS IN BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS Popescu, Bondrea & Constantinescu Our article offers a survey of behavioral economics and in...
    2 days ago
  • Nicholas D. Kristof
    Your Comments on Charity: Water - My Sunday column is focused on one man's efforts to build a new aid group, charity: water, but more broadly it's about how we can connect those who want to...
    3 days ago
  • Game Theorist
    BBC World Service - You know, as an economist and especially one who is researching and thinking about serious public policy constantly, to be interviewed by the BBC World Ser...
    5 days ago
  • Bluematter.
    Friday Special 112 - Make my mood with further People Sayings
    5 days ago
  • Trade Diversion
    “The Slide to Protectionism in the Great Depression: Who Succumbed and Why?” - Barry Eichengreen and Doug Irwin look at the drivers of Depression-era protectionism: The Great Depression was marked by protectionist trade policies and t...
    5 days ago
  • Aplia Econ Blog: News for Economics Students
    Income and Substitution Effects Explain Changes in Burrito Consumption - I took many economics courses, and yet it wasn’t until I experienced a change in my own personal finances that I really understood the nature of the income...
    6 days ago
  • The Belgravia Dispatch
    Robert Strange McNamara - It was Henry Ford II who reportedly said of Robert McNamara: "In our business, we are lucky if we make the right decision 51% of the time. What I have notice...
    1 week ago
  • MTEF is The Bayesian Heresy
    Assorted - From Poverty to Prosperity Watch The Lord is my central banker, I shall not want… Plastic fantastic Global Development Finance 2009: Charting a Global Re...
    3 weeks ago
  • İyigün Blog
    The Saga of the Secular Elite - If you read the New York Times and take it seriously, you might think that I am referring to the political situation in Turkey. Well, guess again.And if yo...
    5 weeks ago
  • Allison Arieff
    Rethinking the Mall - At a convention for shopping mall designers and developers, a glimpse of the future and, unfortunately, the past.
    1 month ago
  • Schlossplatz³ Blog
    Barack Obama: The First 100 Days - Barack Obama is approaching the end of his first 100 days in office as the United States’ 44th President. Traditionally viewed by the media as the first in...
    2 months ago
  • tomgpalmer.com
    Protectionism and the Great Depression: Please Spread the Word! -
    3 months ago
  • FT.com | Gadget Guru
    Gadget guru on the move - Paul Taylor continues to answer your gadgetry questions. Visit his updated Gadget guru page to see questions and answers on the latest gizmos, software an...
    3 months ago
  • Harry Clarke
    New site - I have a new site at *WordPress*: http://www.harryrclarke.com/ *Readers please adjust your browser settings. * ** It is goodbye *Blogger* for at least a wh...
    3 months ago
  • Economics and...
    Satan and the G-16: A Sacrilegious Rant and a (Modest?) Proposal - It appears now that the G-20 intend to make their compromise with the devil. That’s pretty much inevitable, since the devil is one of them. When I say the ...
    4 months ago
  • The Political Economist
    For we are young and free? - As I've been spending this Australia Day long weekend writing about the paternalist nanny state in health policy, I have been struck by the multiplicity of...
    5 months ago
  • Creative Capitalism
    Re-opening for business (in one form or another) - by Conor Clarke Hi again, and sorry for the publishing hiatus. The Creative Capitalism book is now done. It comes out December 2 -- "just in time for the hol...
    8 months ago
  • Econ Academics Blog
    Now also with non-English blogs - Now that I have figured out how to make the welcome message stick at the top, I will also post from time to time about additions. For the moment, I have ad...
    10 months ago
  • MathTrek
    The Noisy Game of Baseball - By Julie J. Rehmeyer Halfway through the 2005 baseball season, John Olerud was having a great year with the Boston Red Sox. His batting average was .405, far...
    1 year ago
 
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