1. The inside scoop on how the Geithner plan evolved.
2. What kind of cities do Americans want to live in?
3. Fruits and vegetables are getting less healthy.
4. The blind, epileptic artist.
5. World War II and the end of the Great Depression.
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Tyler, where is your outrage about Geithner, Summers, Bernanke and the many others that were supposed to put together a new plan? More than 5 months have gone and all of them have been there for much longer. They don’t know yet what to do. They appear to have no idea of what has worked and what has not worked in the many financial crises of the past 30 years. They cannot even blame the politicians for their failure.
it’s true that many economists have been writing papers about how to do it, but almost all of them (including you) have never worked on solving a crisis. You don’t have to reinvent the wheel. Take anyone of the cases in which good solutions were found (Chile, Sweden, Korea) and try to learn from them. What a waste!
“What kind of cities do Americans want to live in?”
Italian ones, if they’ve any sense.
Everybody who doesn’t live in Seattle wants to move here, but people who do live in Seattle all seem obsessed with making the city more like Portland or San Francisco. Go figure.
As if Blagojevich weren’t guilty enough already, thought you might like to include the following in a future collection of links:
http://www.westonaprice.org/soy/obama-letter.pdf
The money quote comes in paragraph four:
“The soy products are produced by Archer Daniel Midlands, which contributed heavily to the campaign of Rod Blagojevich. The change from a diet based largely on beef to one based on soy happened in 2003, when Mr. Blagojevich began his first term as governor.”
DocMerlin: It’s worse than that. Seattle newspapers have actually sent reporters down to Portland just for the sake of writing “Seattle should be more like Portland” pieces. So far there has yet to be a mass exodus of hipsters moving down to Oregon.
In regards to the Brooke’s article, unlike Europe, most American cities do not have the infrastructure in place to make city living desirable. Without well developed mass transit the need for a car becomes paramount and few people want to have that hassle. The US has chosen to adopt policies that favor suburbs. Therefore its not surprising that people are avoiding cities.
“So far there has yet to be a mass exodus of hipsters moving down to Oregon.”
How would one know? Maybe they should do a census of hipsters, like the one they do of street people – have volunteers fan out over the city one night and count them. But I thought in fact there had been a mass exodus of hipsters moving down to Portland. See: “Why Portland is America’s indie rock Mecca.” http://www.slate.com/id/2173729/
“The folks at Pew asked one other interesting question: Would you rather live in a community with a McDonald’s or a Starbucks?”
I hope people were allowed to answer this one “no.”
There is a way to make vegetables healthier without reducing yields, but which society has misguidedly rejected – genetic engineering. Unscientific fear of “Frankenfood” is contributing to poor nutrition, high costs, environmental problems, and lower yields than can be achieved in many parts of the world where hunger is still a major issue.
DJC: Genetic engineering will not make vegetables healthier. You may as well just tell everyone to take two centrum a day.
There is a lot of things in vegetables that make them healthy that we do not measure for. I think a return to a more organic (little o) method of farming is needed, not the idea that we need to make more food on less land so we can turn the rest into a housing development.
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