August 21, 2008 – 2:49 pm
There’s an excellent (once-a-month excellent, if I can say that) article that appeared on the nyt website yesterday on Barack Obama’s economics philosophy, and ideas for what we need to do to fix the state we’re in. If you have time (it’s 8 pages, but worth it), it explains a lot about the politics [...]
It started popping up in the news throughout Tuesday, and got the front-page writeup Wednesday: after 7 years of trying, the Doha round of free trade talks have been declared over with zero agreed on.
The NYTimes and others write in detail about what the US says on one side, and what India and China say [...]
We’ve all heard it a number of places over the years, I imagine: actively-managed funds basically never beat the market anymore. But a study published about a year ago finally sounds like it used the right statistics to answer the question. It’s covered in this NYT article: The Prescient Are Few.
Here are some excerpts, if [...]
This book is outstanding, and if its principles were taught in American history classes instead of the smorgasbord of facts and dates and ideas taken out of their historical context, people would see America’s place in the world much more clearly. Honestly it made me feel like the basis for my opinions on how [...]
I was reading the leader in the 4/11 economist regarding america’s slowing growth, and the following line of the economist made me think about gdp, happiness, spending, etc: “spending will be supported by tax rebates in the second half of the year”. I feel like it relates to some things that umair (umair haque–see [...]
Fred Wilson, partner at Union Square Ventures, backer of Twitter et al, speaking mostly about the venture-backed startup world, examines some quotes from vcs floating around in the news concerning the effects of the current economic downturn. It’s clear that they’re taking it pretty seriously, even for innovative internet startups. To quote him,
in [...]
