• Archive for September, 2009

    Krugman on the Humbling of Economists

    by  • September 5, 2009 • politics & money

    If an econmist doesn’t factor for: confidence men Regulators who are not held liable for professional negligence Regulators who use their position not to find fraud and or danger signs, but to curry favor to secure future employment Executive compensation completely uncoupled from magnitude or quality of company  performance A TV network masquerading as...

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    Chris Christie needs to pump his brakes

    by  • September 5, 2009 • politics & money

    Wrong way on a one way? Hit a motorcyclist…no ticket…and yet Christie should win over Jon Corzine because he is going to clean up New Jersey. Right. But just a few moments ago, another big development surfaced — an apparent lie about the accident Christie was caught in by New Jersey public television station...

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    Happy Birthday Internet

    by  • September 4, 2009 • technology

    Jimmy Kimmel leads the celebration: But Seriously: One opposing view to ARPAnet’s origins comes from Charles M. Herzfeld, the former director of ARPA. He claimed that ARPAnet was not created as a result of a military need, stating “it came out of our frustration that there were only a limited number of large, powerful...

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    Senator Schilling would be insufferable

    by  • September 4, 2009 • sports

    “Senator Schilling” on steroids user Roger Clemens and his accomplishments after steriods (A.S.): “If doesn’t do that then there aren’t many options as a fan for me other than to believe his career 192 wins and three Cy Youngs he won prior to 1997 were the end,” Schilling wrote Wednesday in his...

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    For what it’s worth: 50 Banks that are “safe”

    by  • September 1, 2009 • politics & money

    The World’s 50 safest banks list is out. Do you trust the list based on evaluations by the ratings agencies? The “World’s 50 Safest Banks” 2009 were selected through a comparison of the long-term credit ratings and total assets of the 500 largest banks around the world. Ratings from Moody’s, Standard & Poor’s and...

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