The truly scary thing is, some of this was new to me. It’s freaking impossible to keep track of just how screwed we are. Even if you make it a hobby. Like I do.
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The truly scary thing is, some of this was new to me. It’s freaking impossible to keep track of just how screwed we are. Even if you make it a hobby. Like I do. As of this writing, gold is up above $1800 an ounce; it’s been driven so high at least partly by the idea that gold is a safe haven in these chaotic times. But how, exactly? I understand why gold was so popular during its last big run-up in the 1970s—then, the problem was inflation. Your […] Having trouble uploading sample pages, so let’s try and see if it works here:
I think that did it! That’s one of my two pages on Malthus. Woops–it’s going into the right columns. Well, anyway, let’s see if I can get this to work on the main Sample page. If I can, there […] With all the commentary on the debt limit negotiations, nobody seems to be mentioning that it’s just a continuation of normal Republican tactics: when they’re in the minority, they do everything they can to prevent government from functioning unless they get their way. What we’re seeing now is just a continuation of what we saw […] As I’ve mentioned before, I love the Cracked website. Today one of their columnists tackles the very unfunny subject of just how completely the poor are fucked in modern America, and does it with Cracked’s patented mix of good information and irreverent humor. An example of the good information: I knew that payday-loan places offered […] So some time ago I had this flash that maybe the 1990s drop in crime was not due to the improving economy (really, the economy during the Clinton boom stank by the standards of the 1970s), or because of legal abortion meaning fewer unwanted criminal babies (as Freakonomics would have it) but because of lead. […] I’d never heard of him before, but damn I liked his excellent article at Salon, a fascinating look at a Southern labor movement in the 1930s. If that doesn’t sound all that fascinating, Winant does a good job of tying the failure of one union movement to larger issues (briefly, working-class Southern whites never unionized […] For a long time it was a cliche, one that was reasonably close to the truth, that the reporting at the Wall Street Journal was excellent, while the editorial page was a disgrace–a constant stream of right-wing lies. Now it’s pretty clear that the reporting is infected as well. Exhibit A is today’s piece on […] I really have no idea whether this story–where a commodities trader accidentally winds up having 28,000 tons of real, actual, physical coal dumped off at his workplace–is real. But it’s a good yarn, and it shows how the world of commodities traders is so unrelated to the stuff being traded that the very idea of […] Here’s an article I missed about how Chase treats its customers. I’ve experienced the same disregard. They never got to the point of outright stealing from me (they just gave me a loan in the free-money days of 2006-2007 at reasonable interest “for the life of the loan” and then demanded it back), but then, […] |
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