There perhaps is no more apt analogy for our current financial crisis than the USS Titanic. Mr Ismay with his fateful line “when can we get underway, dammit!” embodies current American sentiments like “we can’t let this crisis slow us down,” “how can we fix this?” and “the USA’s banking system is just too robust […]
A n interesting study on the morality of libertarians. My favorite quote… “We might say that liberals have the most ‘feminine’ cognitive style, and libertarians the most ‘masculine.’” http://reason.com/archives/2010/11/02/the-science-of-libertarian
This article from Slate does a very decent job at explaining how bad the economic situation is and will most likely remain so for the foreseeable future. Then near the end, the classic Keynesian slip, “That is not to say that there is nothing to be done, of course, or that the current state of […]
