Articles You Should Read November 11 -26, 2008
Again, the process is that I use twitter (and tr.im) to save articles I find interesting and worth remembering, then copy them over from time to time. May start adding my comments on blogs.
- Citi Bailout is a really bad deal but you won't hear it on TV News http://tr.im/1ihi about 12 hours ago
- Citi bailout http://tr.im/1gej 2:59 PM Nov 24th
- New Yorker on Meltdown http://tr.im/1gei 2:58 PM Nov 24th
- Five Myths About Our Ailing Health Care System http://tr.im/1g67 12:08 PM Nov 24th
- end of the system. Nationalization vs bailout http://tr.im/1g5y 12:05 PM Nov 24th
- Barney Frank profile, funny http://tr.im/1fvy 8:21 AM Nov 24th
- It's not bigotry if it's religion. So slavery and the Holocaust are okay if it's your religion ? I don't think so http://tr.im/1f8o 5:03 PM Nov 23rd
- Brad DeLong says NY Times smeared (ignorantly) Citi Group's failings http://tr.im/1f4m hey why should the NY Times be economically literate 2:49 PM Nov 23rd
- Twitter in Japanese http://tr.im/1exr 9:30 AM Nov 23rd
- Washington post article linked to in http://tr.im/1ex0 about Office of Thrift Supervision failure to regulate http://tr.im/1ewz 8:49 AM Nov 23rd
- Krugman points to some self love about rich guys from July 07 http://tr.im/1ew6 Those whom the Gods would destroy they first make proud. 7:49 AM Nov 23rd
- Under Bush, Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS) failed to properly regulate lenders http://tr.im/1eva 6:46 AM Nov 23rd
- Flash ! Bankers Act Like Assholes, Paulson Does Nothing http://tr.im/1ev7 6:41 AM Nov 23rd
- Transcript of great American Life show on financial crisis "Great Pool of Money" http://tr.im/1eut (pdf) 6:08 AM Nov 23rd
- The fall of Citi Group greed, cronyism degregulation and mortgage backed securities http://tr.im/1euj 5:44 AM Nov 23rd
- Right wing lie that Wind Turbines harm birds is, wait for it, a lie http://tr.im/1egi 1:52 PM Nov 22nd
- The right wing wants to sell the Automobile industry to the Chinese http://tr.im/1dpv 6:49 PM Nov 21st
- GOP ratfucker trying to rehabilitate himself http://tr.im/1dlc The guy who bragged about bringing down Elliot Spitzer 4:44 PM Nov 21st
- Google Life Photograph collection http://tr.im/196s 8:38 AM Nov 19th
- The mature view of the Lieberman finesse http://tr.im/191c victory obama 7:22 AM Nov 19th
- TNR discussion of Global Financial Meltdown http://tr.im/1915 7:19 AM Nov 19th
- Give Spitzer a second chance http://tr.im/182b (like Vitter, Gingrich, Guliani) Because we need the best Dr. to fix the financial system 5:24 PM Nov 18th
- Quick proof that Right wing lie that Freddie and Fannie caused mortgage meltdown is false (via Krugman) http://tinyurl.com/689k7p 8:48 PM Nov 17th
- A simple solution to the foreclosure crisis Renting http://tinyurl.com/5tot8c 4:58 PM Nov 17th
- GM Must Remake the Mass Transit System It Murdered http://tinyurl.com/5r9vpa 4:56 PM Nov 17th
- Phil Gramm, proud of causing the World Wide Financial Meltdown http://tinyurl.com/6kmkng 9:08 AM Nov 17th
- The right wing "ballots in the car" lie http://tinyurl.com/5cfmtx 9:00 AM Nov 17th
- Mean streets trump faux cowboy http://tinyurl.com/64ux8r 8:21 AM Nov 17th
- White House staff shaping up to work effectively with Congress http://tinyurl.com/6xwenw 3:50 PM Nov 16th
- Wingnut fables and the real story on the Wall Street Meltdown (secret credit swaps courtesy Phil Gramm) http://tinyurl.com/573lqd 9:19 AM Nov 16th
- Iceland and Bears Stearns http://tinyurl.com/5gkcly & http://tinyurl.com/357coc & http://tinyurl.com/6jjzqj 7:03 AM Nov 16th
- Nominate scoring of Congressional voting http://tinyurl.com/5dwoo9 6:47 AM Nov 16th
- How progressive are individual Senators http://tinyurl.com/5wzcre 6:36 AM Nov 16th
- Saxby Chamblis http://saxby-chambliss.com/ claims Senatorial Privilege to avoid testifying http://tinyurl.com/5drdl4 9:40 PM Nov 15th
- In case you need background information about the Georgia Senate Race http://saxby-chambliss.com/ 9:37 PM Nov 15th
- The UAW already gave substantial concessions which Automakers Management have squandered with their mismanagement http://tinyurl.com/6rggbv 9:23 PM Nov 15th
- New Yorker on the Financial Crisis http://tinyurl.com/6pfd44 It's like deconstructionism 3:52 PM Nov 15th
- Mormons Tipped Scale in Ban on Gay Marriage http://tinyurl.com/6cbs6k Yes, these Mormons http://tinyurl.com/6kgggy 2:59 PM Nov 15th
- Midnight deregulation, doing as much damage as they can before they leave. http://tinyurl.com/689rfa 12:44 PM Nov 15th
- Great video to read if you ever want to read anything by Ben Stein http://tinyurl.com/67otdk 10:44 AM Nov 15th
- Elliot Spitzer on how to set the market right http://tinyurl.com/55e8nk 10:33 AM Nov 15th
- History of the Creation of the Resolution Trust Corporation (The Government entity that dealt with the S&L crisis) http://tinyurl.com/66ce85 7:05 AM Nov 15th
- Economic plan to address the depression http://tinyurl.com/6pr7jv answers the Republican objections 5:30 PM Nov 14th
- Worth watching for the closing line http://tinyurl.com/6laqh3 3:38 PM Nov 14th
- For the record: Tjhis is your nation on white privilege http://tinyurl.com/3hrksz 10:13 AM Nov 14th
- Sensible Simple Campaign Finance Law reform http://tinyurl.com/6n5tlv Never happen, unfair to corrupt politicians 8:27 AM Nov 14th
- How Now Brown Cloud http://tinyurl.com/5uzbjw very scary 7:49 AM Nov 14th
- This is a parody. But truthful. http://tinyurl.com/6axmpk The Column Tom Friedman should write 7:40 AM Nov 14th
- EPA appeals board turns down EPA approval of new dirty coal plant http://tinyurl.com/5n3ljc 7:27 AM Nov 14th
- Cook: 12 GOP Senators Potentially Vulnerable, Just 6 Dems http://tinyurl.com/5lnp54 see also http://tinyurl.com/5apmh4 6:54 AM Nov 14th
- A rational argument for keeping Holy Joe in his chairmanship http://tinyurl.com/5koyyx One could differ but this makes sense to me. 7:57 AM Nov 13th
- Goop that holds the GOP together, misinformation from David Brooks http://tinyurl.com/59tvgp said first in http://tinyurl.com/55v3jk 6:17 AM Nov 13th
- Great article on Wall Street and the end of an era http://tinyurl.com/5b746z 5:46 PM Nov 12th
- New AIG bailout terms are big win for Goldman Sachs (Paulson's old company) http://tinyurl.com/6n2hzh Quelle Surprise 1:05 PM Nov 12th
- Icelandic banking crisis and what to do about it: The lender of last resort theory of optimal currency areas http://tinyurl.com/6op78d (pdf) 1:00 PM Nov 12th
- summary of what happened to Iceland http://tinyurl.com/58q6pd Are there lessons for the US ? How about political central bankers ? 12:56 PM Nov 12th
- Calendar has a well known liberal bias. Another Bush f*&k up puts last minute regulation givaways at risk http://tinyurl.com/6zeoun 12:42 PM Nov 12th
- Bailout $ for Exec Bonuses. Waxman says "Show me the money (records)" http://tinyurl.com/6l2dds 11:48 AM Nov 12th
- Emanuel, Obama and Chicago http://tinyurl.com/632h9u 10:56 AM Nov 12th
- Rove Protege: "this must have been how the Politburo felt" Bailout as Marxism http://tinyurl.com/6m5u3h Obama aside, Irony not dead. 6:04 AM Nov 12th
- article with many links on WW I http://tinyurl.com/5gpung for Veterans Day 2:27 PM Nov 11th
- How to solve that garden slug problem http://tinyurl.com/5fqwh4 12:51 PM Nov 11th
- Lieberman not progressive any more http://tinyurl.com/5f9ymv It's not just Iraq. 11:24 AM Nov 11th
- 2010 Senate Rankings, Part I: Races #21-#35 http://tinyurl.com/5l3kgz Because it's not too early to start thinking about it 6:32 AM Nov 11th
- It's a noun, it's a verb, it's an adjective...It's Palin http://tinyurl.com/5hmy9t 3:49 PM Nov 10th
- Love the lying. Can't stop http://tinyurl.com/5bhgzg 3:06 PM Nov 10th
- Unconfirmed unsourced rumors that 50 state strategy is being dropped. http://tinyurl.com/5goch9 3:03 PM Nov 10th
