Monthly Archives: July 2009

179. tech choice: inflight cellphones?

This is a crucial indicator of market vs. democracy. In-flight calling soon to be allowed south of the border by Tim Stevens, posted Jul 24th 2009 at 7:33AM While in-flight WiFi is slowly becoming a reality in more and more jets going to more and more places, in-flight calling seems to be stuck in a

178. secrecy in the Obama admin

Scott Horton works at  unKeeping the Dark Lord’s Secrets The Obama Justice Department has demonstrated few things more clearly than its commitment to keep the dirtiest secrets of its predecessors. One absurd example is the controversy over the notes from Dick Cheney’s fateful interview with FBI agents about his role in the outing of Valerie

177. Anthropology and economics

Mirowski takes this on. http://www.nd.edu/~pmirowsk/publications.html Economics tries to get rid of culture while anthropology focuses on myth and ritual, and kinship.

176.another view of gate away from river.

175. Mall investment as model of bad investment

Lets say you have a million, and can borrow 9 million, and build a mall for 10 million in a location where population and spending are increasing. In the first year profit on rent may be 1 million, half of which is payable to the bank as interest. You then have a profit of half

174. Bill Greider – How the Fed Prints Money Out of Thin Air

He wrote the best book on the fed many years ago. Also author of Who will Tell the People, which fist made me awware o over production in the world. this was many years ago also. the Fed now… This awkward reality explains the dilemma facing the Fed. It cannot stand too much visibility, nor

173. Asian inflation?

How key is this to the future? Asia reflation moves to the wild sideAsian reflation is poised to take on a wild life of its own, forcing policymakers at some point to accept that dollar flows are destabilizing and unmanageable. China, in particular, faces an intensifying predicament, with a rejuvenated boom that will prove impervious

172. From the house away from the river..

171. Obama now

it looks like he will deal with, in order 1. health 2. finance and employment (this is a complex system) 3. climate change while trying to improve international relations in all directions. It looks like he might 1. fail with medicine because he allowed special interests to *increase* costs and lose those voters who are

170. Casanoma saturday