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This morning Nicholas Kristof puts those who oppose the sham of a healthcare bill makes its way through the Congress “on the wrong side of history”:
It’s now broadly apparent that those who opposed Social Security in 1935 and Medicare in 1965 were wrong in their fears and tried ...
Congress
Health care
Tom Friedman divides the world into two kinds of people: “clean-energy hawks” like himself who believe that there are magical energy sources out there somewhere that:
are controlled by us and only go down in price as demand increases
and global warming denialists who:
...
World
Gene Green
Paul Krugman raises the spectre of a Japanese-style “lost decade” for the United States:
Brad DeLong says that the loss of public trust due to the kid-gloves treatment of bankers has raised the probability of another Great Depression, because the public won’t support another ...
World
Japan
Paul Krugman
United States
Tyler Cowen proposes a fourteen point healthcare reform as an alternative to the version of healthcare reform making its way through the Congress. Tyler explains his objective as not to outline the perfect healthcare reform plan but to lay out a few things that would be better than the reforms ...
White House
Health care
According to an audit report from Office of the Special Inspector General of the Troubled Assets Relief Program (SIGTARP), the New York Federal Reserve Bank bungled its negotiations with various New York banks and the insurance companies A. I. G. in fall of last year:
The banks and the ...
White House
The New York Times
Federal Reserve
David Brooks mourns the loss of energy and invention in the United States:
There are also periodic crises of faith. Today, the rise of China is producing such a crisis. It is not only China’s economic growth rate that produces this anxiety. The deeper issue is spiritual. The Chinese, though ...
World
China
United States
There’s a considerable amount of, shall we say, skepticism about the medical examiner’s finding of suicide in the death of CPS Board President Michael Scott . In the Chicago Daily Observer Phil Krone writes:
I was devastated this morning to hear of the death of Michael Scott, one ...
Congress
Scott Murphy
I wish someone would explain to me why there seem to be so few of his supporters who will criticize President Obama when he’s wrong and so many of his opponents who are eager to attack him when he’s right. Further, nearly all I see are mindless, reflexive, over-heated attacks and ...
White House
Barack Obama
Recently I’ve published several foreign policy-related posts at Outside the Beltway :
“Protocol”
“Piling on China”
World
China
Foreign Policy
Japan
A body tentatively identified as that of Chicago Board of Education President Michael Scott has been found in the Chicago River:
A body tentatively identified as Michael Scott, president of the Chicago Board of Education, was found in the Chicago River near the Merchandise Mart this ...
Congress
Scott Murphy
I agree with Paul Krugman that we can learn something from Germany:
Consider, for a moment, a tale of two countries. Both have suffered a severe recession and lost jobs as a result — but not on the same scale. In Country A, employment has fallen more than 5 percent, and the unemployment ...
World
Germany
United States
In the light of evidence like this on how fiscal stimulus may actually have served to produce unemployment:
Economic growth is supposed to create jobs. However, the U.S. economy shed twice as many jobs (1,332,000) in the third quarter of 2009, when GDP grew at a robust 3.5% annual rate, than ...
White House
This morning I’ve published a foreign policy-related post at Outside the Beltway :
“Searching for the Exit?”
World
Foreign Policy
Afghanistan
I was reading this post on philosopher David Chalmers’s views on “the Singularity”:
David Chalmers is a philosopher of mind, best known for his argument about the difficulty of what he termed the “hard problem” of consciousness, which he typically discusses by way of a ...
Other
As it happens the friend I mentioned in the previous post is a research chemist, a profession he’s followed for decades. I thought I might pass along to you his views on the prospects for research chemists in the United States.
In our chats yesterday evening he passed along several ...
World
United States
China
Japan
Last evening I attended a presentation on the Reese Map and the preservation and restoration of the map by the Northwestern University Library. The Reese Map, published in 1876, is the oldest known map of the city of Evanston. There’s a complete account of the map, a much larger image ...
Other
Any day could be Veteran’s Day, the official federal holiday being celebrated today in the United States, but only the 11th day of the 11th month could be remembered as Armistice Day and that’s how I’ll always remember it.
Soon it will be the 11th hour here in the Central ...
World
Bud Day
United States
Tom Friedman presents some numbers to conjure with:
Imagine if you took all the cars, trucks, planes, trains and ships in the world and added up their exhaust every year. The amount of carbon dioxide, or CO2, all those cars, trucks, planes, trains and ships collectively emit into the ...
World
Brazil
Indonesia
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As I read this article on at Politico
on China’s economic condition (hat tip: Glenn Reynolds )
a number of thoughts occurred to me but I wanted to zoom in on the thought provoked by this section: For example, the Chinese already consume ...
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Built-In Carbon Production
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