Good Reads from the Weekend
An Occasional Roundup of What’s Online from RGE’s Executive Editor:
Economists seek for the post-crash holy grail
In the counter-intuitive department: why corporate America needs Obama right now much more than he needs it
http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/79573/obama-hold-big-business-chamber-of-commerce-tea-party
Leaving the euro? it’s doable, but not advisable
http://www.economist.com/node/17629757
Nice app from the gumshoes at ProPublica on exactly which banks received what (and still owe what) re: TARP funds.
http://projects.propublica.org/tables/treasury-facilities-loans
On Amazon’s decision to boot WikiLeaks off its servers
http://www.cjr.org/the_news_frontier/why_amazon_caved_and_what_it_m.php?page=all
The cash continues to flow from MENA, especially the Gulf, to al-Qaida
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/06/world/middleeast/06wikileaks-financing.html?_r=1&hp
FP interviews with Shiller and El-Erian on the significance of the financial crisis
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/talking_to_the_smart_crowd
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Guest • December 13th, 2010 at 10:26 am
is it as clear to everyone else as it is to us that, tada,’if politics is the art of the possible’,andthe MEDIA controls the message,we are the MEDIA, we control the message!which allows the politicians to do the right thing!good ideas take on a life of their own!as colon powell likes to say,’you can do many things as long as you don’t care who gets the credit’.happy holidays













