david brooks’ column this week lays out neatly the feelings i and many others have about what’s going on in the country.
brooks sounds like the classic cynic — he wants to believe humans can be more, but he’s seen too much evidence to the contrary. in this way, he serves as the perfect bridge [...]
I’ve been sending this link out to anyone who tells me they don’t understand what’s going on in the economy right now, so I thought i’d post here.
also, planet money’s adam davidson had an interview with treasury secretary tim geithner Wednesday. in it, he posed some of the same questions raised in the [...]
I had the brief pleasure of meeting Rick Santelli when I toured the Chicago Board of Trade last year as part of an advanced economics reporting class at the Medill School of Journalism. I was much more of a neophyte to financial wizardry then, and had trouble keeping up with the mile-a-minute mind of Santelli. [...]
the los angeles times has an article today on Lockheed Martin’s efforts to lobby the Obama administration to purchase more F-22 raptors:
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-jets11-2009feb11,0,165351.story
the argument for doing so, according to Lockheed’s general manager, is that these jobs are “shovel ready,” which is a chichi way people now describe a project that has everything but the funding (or logic?) to [...]
