what other people think?
Perhaps, you’d be more blunt and less polite in that way that meaning gets lost. You’d be like Richard Feynman, author of “What Do You Care What Other People Think.”
Maybe you’d be more like Margaret and Helen.
I would imagine selective memory works well for Rush (Limbaugh, who else?) considering he selects [...]
The NY Times covers the anger and death threats against individuals at AIG over the bonuses they received.
Like many, my gut just wrenched over the bonus headlines. How could they? But of course they could: They live in a different world, one in which two comma pay checks are not especially remarkable.
Treasury Sec. Timothy Giethner [...]
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look long into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE, Beyond Good and Evil
The moral high ground is hard to hold and we let it slip. I hope that Sy Hersh’s discovery assertion of [...]
Was the American financial system looted?
The New York Times raises this in a compelling discussion of a 16-year-old study that, essentially, followed the 1980s S&L and real estate crash. Writes David Leonhardt in a contemporary application of a suddenly very important economic research paper:
… when I spoke with Mr. Romer (a co-author of the study) [...]
