Tag Archives: Recession
Food inflation is here!
Chips are disappearing from bags, candy from boxes and vegetables from cans, the New York Times warned this week. With rising costs of production and an economy that continues to lag, food inflation has arrived. It’s not just the increase … Continue reading
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Red State, Blue State
I just returned from my first trip to the Lone Star State, after hearing a lecture by the sweetly-libertarian junior justice on the Texas supreme court. Needless to say I am enchanted—and looking to spend a year or so in … Continue reading
Do Elite Colleges Produce the Best-Paid Graduates?
In these economic times, what’s the metric for choosing the highest yielding undergrad degree? Here’s a link to the article, and here’s a link to full metric and rankings.* Forget U.S. News’s academic rankings and Playboy’s party-school list. For some … Continue reading
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“Mancession” far fetched?
I’m a big Christina Hoff Sommers fan, but this article reek of stretching a topic too far to find some tenuous articulation to “women’s issues.” Even if the “burly” sectors are hardest hit, that translates seamlessly to the softer side. … Continue reading
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Journalism Lay-offs Chill Death Row Challenges
Talk about the “seen” and the “unseen”! Death row challengers may require passionate journalists to tout their cases as much as they need lawyers to argue their pleas. When journalists (and lawyers!) are consumed w/ keeping their jobs and covering … Continue reading
Recessionista
I pretty much deal with the recession by powering happily forward and refusing to acknowledge the recession. Today I’ll concede for two interesting links: The Recession can make you a better person. Reconnecting w/ the cheap food we liked before … Continue reading
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How the Crash Will Reshape America
This article (Atlantic, March 2009) is so, so good. Excerpts: Whither New York? “A crucial contributory factor in the financial centres’ development over the last two centuries, and even longer,” writes Cassis, “is the arrival of new talent to replenish … Continue reading
Things will get worse before they get better
From The Economist (but lifted from Boing Boing): Thanks to massive–and unsustainable–fiscal and monetary transfusions, output will eventually stabilise. But in many ways, darker days lie ahead. Despite the scale of the slump, no conventional recovery is in sight. Growth, … Continue reading
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Responses
In the spirit of “keeping track of the good stuff” that this blog represents, here are my girlfriends’ responses to the following (great) article: I choose my choice! My opening: Is it a post-Hillary DC thing, or have you guys … Continue reading
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Thomas Friedman: Immigration Is Our Heritage
The Open-Door Bailout Article Tools Sponsored By By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN Published: February 10, 2009 Leave it to a brainy Indian to come up with the cheapest and surest way to stimulate our economy: immigration. “All you need to do … Continue reading
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Re: That G-20 Show
In response to your citing British Prime Minister Gordon Brown urging a “coordinated fiscal stimulus” at the G-20 summit this week (”That G-20 Show,” Review & Outlook Nov. 14): It is easy for G-20 leaders craving more jam for their … Continue reading
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