March 2009
21 posts
“Quietly in public, loudly in private, climate scientists everywhere are saying...”
– George Monbiot
“Stop failing the Turing test!”
– My new favourite insult…
Web2book →
CrossOver Chromium →
“Telephone service I had in 1984 was in most ways worse than the service I got...”
– Edward Tuck, as quoted on GigaOm
Watching the Sarah Connor Chronicles
Sarah Connor has come to the school to pick up John and Cameron.
Sarah: "Field trip."
John Connor: "I call shotgun."
Cameron: "I call 9 millimeter."
“If the financial system has proved dysfunctional, how far can we rely on the...”
– Martin Wolf
“It isn’t exactly clear though why Brown needs the cooperation of the other...”
– Brad Setser
Wolfram Alpha →
Obama's economic saviour savaged as Keating lets... →
H+ Magazine →
Macroeconomics’ crisis of irrelevance →
“Prior to the [ABN AMRO] take-over, central bank president Wellink advocated a...”
– Ivo Arnold writing on RGE
The Quick Brown - watching FOX headlines change... →
WatchJohn Stewart explains Twitter
“Congratulations, you’re still in the running for America’s next fart...”
– D.
What EU leaders must do to avoid banking crisis in... →
Eastern European nations are on the edge. In this column, the Chief Economist of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development argues that widespread banking crises are possible, if Western governments fail to coordinate. The situation is manageable, but it needs to be managed.
“On Feb. 11, a circuit court judge in Miami-Dade County in Florida set aside a...”
– Fair Game - Guess What Got Lost in the Loan Pool? - NYTimes.com