pajamasmedia.com - 12/26/2008
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MEGAN MCARDLE ON financial workers vs. auto workers.
Financial executives have been fired in large numbers and taking pay cuts that reduced their income to a fraction of what was expected six months ago. Auto workers have not. Financial firms are in the process of laying off hundreds of ...
memeorandum.com - 12/31/2008
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memeorandum.com —
Online news is changing. Increasingly, stories are broken
and analyzed in near real-time and away from established...
news sites. memeorandum offers you a window into this new world of news, focusing primarily on U.S. politics and current affairs. It ...
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The problem with Israel-Palestine blogging (Megan McArdle)
israelmatzav.blogspot.com - 1/1/2009
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The Atlantic's Megan McArdle - who never blogs
about the Israel-'Palestine' conflict - blogs about the Israel-'Palestine'...
conflict (Hat Tip: Memeorandum). And when it comes to Israel, the best she can do is to set up a straw man and knock him down. ...
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The problem with Megan McArdle
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Autoworkers vs. bankers: The less deserving than thou cage match
TigerHawk —
... she is more than a little persuasive that neither the car companies nor their unions would want the deal that the government gave to the bankers. The flip-side is also true: [M]ost of the people who Hilzoy thinks of as picking on the auto workers would be willing to accept a deal in which the Big Three got some funds in order to put its balance sheet back together, then started firing people at will until they were small enough to make a profit again. No question. CWCID: Glenn Reynolds . 0 Comments: ...
The Financial Industry vs. the Auto Industry
The New Editor —
Megan McArdle: (via Instapundit)
... financial executives have been fired in large numbers and taking pay cuts that reduced their income to a fraction of what was expected six months ago. Auto workers have not. Financial firms are in the process of laying off hundreds of thousands of their best paid workers (50,000 at Citibank alone); auto firms are not.
The shrinkage of the financial industry, and the vastly reduced pay prospects of its workers, seem entirely reasonable to me, though of course extremely sad for people who put ...
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