HEH: ‘Black Swan’ Author Says Investors Should Sue Nobel Economics Committee for Crisis. “Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of “The Black Swan,” said investors who lost money in the financial crisis should sue the Swedish Central Bank for awarding the Nobel Prize to economists whose theories he said brought down the global economy. . . . Taleb said that the Nobel Prize for Economics has conferred legitimacy on risk models that caused investors’ losses and taxpayer-funded bailouts. Sweden’s central bank will announce the winner of this year’s award on Oct. 11.”
Archive for 2010
October 10, 2010
IS CRIME MAKING A COMEBACK? Not sure this is enough to convince me, but . . . .
NICK GILLESPIE: If Obama is so Gung-Ho About Fixing Education, Why the Hell Won’t He do the Smallest Goddamn Thing to Change the Status Quo?
Hey, in Britain they’re booting people who challenge the system.
THIS WEEK IN THE FUTURE.
JAMES TARANTO: The Marine Who Has Barney Frank Worried. That’s Sean Bielat. Here’s his website.
THEY’LL WANT HIM FOR OBAMACARE’S “LIFE PANELS” THEN! Politico: Jerry Brown: Mammograms Are Not Effective.
EXPLAINING MATH to Rep. Gerry Connolly.
BEWARE: Rumors of a “Pumpkin Panic.” Better that than a toilet paper shortage . . . .
MICHAEL MOYNIHAN: The Power Politics Of The Nobel Prize.
NOBODY TELL RICHARD COHEN: 1970 tape recording of Kent State shootings reveals sound of pistol shots.
MICKEY KAUS: HOW IS HEALTH CARE REFORM LIKE THE BP OIL SPILL?
Peter Orszag’s Office of Management and Budget has been charged by a presidential commission with engineering an obviously political downplaying of the early BP oil spill estimates. . . . At least that’s not the same Orszag-run OMB that assured us Obama’s health care plan would either be “deficit neutral” or actually reduce the deficit by “bending the curve” of health care costs. . . . Oh wait. . . . P.S.: Substitute “health care cost increases” for “spill” in the BP stories to catch a possible glimpse of the future! . . . .
Falsus in unum. . .
REMEMBERING A SOCIOPATHIC MASS MURDERER. “Forty-three years ago this week, Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara met a just, albeit cowardly, end. The fact that he is now renowned on college campuses and in other benighted precincts is remarkable: if Charles Manson had been a bigger-time psychopath, he might have been Che.”
DON SURBER: THE YEAR OF THE TEA PARTY. “Among mainstream America, 61% say the Tea Party is good for the country. Among the political class, 75% say bad. As well the political class should think because so many of them will be tossed out on November 2.”
THE RISE OF CONSERVATIVE CHRISTIAN WOMEN: “The prominence of Christian female power brokers in American politics is nothing new. Going back to the colonial era, the story of American religion has disproportionately been the story of women. In essentially every Christian denomination at any period of American history, women have been the majority of congregants.” So we should call this the Widow Douglas Restoration?
IT’S 10/10/10! Enjoy it!
October 9, 2010
UH OH: Soaring prices threaten new food crisis.
UPDATE: Reader Douglas Chandler writes: “Why oh Why won’t John Ringo answer his phone?”
Plus, reader Frank Glamser writes: “Maybe we should quit using food to make ethanol for our cars. Just saying.” That’s crazy talk.
DOG BITES MAN. Well, woman, but you know . . . .
TIME TO REJIGGER THE RACE CARD.
FIRST JIMMY CARTER, NOW THIS: “Watch Russ Feingold confidently assert that he represents Tea Party values. Marvel at the importance of reading the Constitution at an early age and carrying it around all the time.”
Gee, it wasn’t long ago that Tea Partiers were a fringe group of astroturf bigots or something. Now it seems like everyone wants to be a Tea Partier! Who on earth could have seen this coming?
HAL LEWIS: My Resignation From The American Physical Society. “One of the outstanding marks of (in)distinction in the Statement was the poison word incontrovertible, which describes few items in physics, certainly not this one.”
DOES SPENDING MONEY ON UNIVERSITIES ACTUALLY LEAD TO ECONOMIC GROWTH? Nobody really knows, but everyone has a position.
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