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Archive for the ‘Economy’ Category
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Tuesday, January 26th, 2010A Thinkin’ Man
Saturday, December 19th, 2009Why Don’t We Value Teachers? – GOOD Blog – GOOD
A new piece by Arne Duncan, the United States Education Secretary, starts out fairly predictably: He praises the fine, difficult work teachers do, repeats the sentiment that they “deserve” better pay, top-notch training and more respect, and so on. … Then the piece gets interesting. He proposes that part of the problem is that the whole system is stuck in the “factory model of the industrial age.
Nice.
Makes Sense
Thursday, October 22nd, 2009Market Madness
Friday, September 11th, 2009Who says economists don’t have a sensor of humor? Now can you can cast blame for the crisis March Madness-style.
In otherwords…
Friday, July 24th, 2009Banks Today
Tuesday, July 7th, 2009The London Review of Books has a very good article, “It’s Finished,” on the current state of major banks and the bailouts:
Nobody in power wants to do that [acknowledge many banks are insolvent and nationalize them or sell-off their assets]. Nobody with power in the banking system, and nobody with power in government. Both the British and the American plans to help the banks are very, very, very expensive variations on the theme of sticking their fingers in their ears and loudly singing ‘La la la, I’m not listening.’
Pakistani Fetsh Wear
Thursday, May 14th, 2009The NY Times has a fascinating video profile of two Pakistani brothers that have a successful business exporting fetsh clothes to the US.
Post-War Nostaglia
Tuesday, March 31st, 2009Is there just me, or has there been a growing nostalgia for the post-war period over the last year? Maybe it’s just been the various style blogs I’ve been perusing recently, but 40s and 50s suits seem to be in and I feel like I’m seeing more and more (positive) references to the culture of that era. The Obama clan’s youth reminds many of the Kennedys, who you could argue represented the end of the 50s. And, admit it, the man looks pretty darn good in a suit.
They say that in depressions that classic, conservative styles come back in fashion and my sense is that’s the case here. And, of course, there’s also the desire to return to at time again when (it seemed) Americans could do no wrong.
PS The lovely blog 1001 rules for my unborn son prompted this post.
“How the Crash Will Reshape America”
Wednesday, February 25th, 2009Declining cities, mass transit, velocity, spikiness, creative clusters, incentives, urban geography – this article by Richard Florida covers just about everything we’re interested in at the Seattle Project.
Cod
Thursday, January 15th, 2009High-Tech Fish Farms Angle to Make Hard-to-Rear Cod the Next Salmon – WSJ.com
Over-fishing has slashed the annual Atlantic catch to 137,000 tons last year, from 1.8 million tons in 1968, according to the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea, a fishery research institute based in Denmark.
Ouch.
Speaking of cod, Mark Kurlansky’s Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World
