this is definitely worth a watch.
i saw it a couple of weeks ago and since then have gone back to it a couple of times. frum just seems to make a lot of sense, and his crticism of rush limbaugh, mark levin and other hysterical reactionaries is spot on.
david brooks may be getting a run [...]
there’s this short documentary from bill moyers, and this one from frontline, which as always, comes through.
part of the beauty of politics is that it offers the potential to reduce the very personal into cold, reasoned calculations, which usually revolve around money. perhaps this doesn’t strike everyone as something beautiful, but it allows decisions to be [...]
russ roberts over at econtalk has a great conversation with time columnist justin fox about his new book, the myth of the rational market.
listen to the whole hour, it’s worth it because it complicates any easy answers on what to do about the great crash of 2007-08.
chris anderson, editor of Wired magazine, has put his money where his mouth is and released his new book for free on itunes.
anderson’s work is about how a small percentage of users paying for content will subsidize the rest of us, who will get the content we want for free. an example is the current [...]
As the country picks itself up from its latest financial spill, it’s vital to consider the assumptions that led people to act the way they did, and to update those assumptions as we move forward.
Here Yale professor Robert Shiller examines the idea that markets “know,” like some omnipotent being, and therefore can never be wrong. [...]
