- “"Milton Friedman believed that greed was humanity's sole motivator" Is that really so? I am never all that comfortable seeing”
Posted on India holds up a mirror for America to see itself October 26, 2009 12:50 PM - “We can chew over the merits of the choice till the cows come home, but where I take particular personal”
Posted on President Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize October 9, 2009 7:54 AM - “Can't say I loved the speech. Very early on, Obama said this: "And this has fed an almost reflexive anti-Americanism,”
Posted on Obama at the UN: "No More Excuses - Now Who's In?" September 25, 2009 8:34 AM - “Pretty odd to lump Milton Friedman - who actively campaigned to end the draft, for example - in with the”
Posted on Irving Kristol-R.I.P. September 21, 2009 5:39 AM - “"First and foremost, I'm a capitalist. And look at me, I'm wearing dirty robes and can't afford a decent razor.”
Posted on Jesus H. Christ cancels Healing Insurance for the poor September 16, 2009 8:57 AM - “The mega-bailout of Wall Street accomplished little. I dispute this. Do you really think we'd be no better off today”
Posted on The Continuing Disaster of Wall Street, One Year Later September 14, 2009 6:52 AM - “Jonah Goldberg is not Jewish, btw. Neocon I suppose, to the extent he has any coherent political philosophy beyond Luciannism,”
Posted on Why Is Norman Podhoretz a Conservative? He's not. September 14, 2009 5:49 AM - “Palin won't survive this Depending on how you want to define "survive", I'd bet a lot that you are wrong.”
Posted on Levi Tells All: The End of Sarah Palin September 2, 2009 1:58 PM - “Thank you for the comments and good wishes - I am doing a lot better two weeks on, right now”
Posted on A note on Britain's NHS August 25, 2009 5:02 AM - “The system is hybrid, but I would guess confidently that the large majority of people in the UK use the”
Posted on A note on Britain's NHS August 25, 2009 4:32 AM - “Main issue for me - has Goldman shorted the Earth?”
Posted on Meek lose inheritance; Goldman Sachs given rights to Earth August 4, 2009 1:56 PM - “I'd hesitate to call any aid - especially when food, medicine or education - completely useless. Sometimes aid programmes don't”
Posted on Entrepreneurship and the Poor August 4, 2009 1:43 PM - “With Birthers, definitely - race, nativism call it what you will, this is what is behind the craziness, the desire”
Posted on How to deal with the teabag townhall-agitators August 4, 2009 1:28 PM - “Where Destor was wrong was saying that microfinance doesn't scale to developed economies - it can be. And whilst it”
Posted on Entrepreneurship and the Poor August 4, 2009 1:05 PM - “I should also be clear that microfinance has not always worked well, or not as well as advertised, where it”
Posted on Entrepreneurship and the Poor August 4, 2009 12:46 PM - “Microfinance works in the developed world as well, at least where it's been tried. Hillary Clinton, fwiw, has been a”
Posted on Entrepreneurship and the Poor August 4, 2009 11:49 AM - “Well I know, I shouldn't pit my limited cognitive abilities against someone comparing one situation, where a B&E suspect turns”
Posted on Both Were Wrong, But One Was Wronger July 24, 2009 11:57 AM - “This is perhaps too dumb to warrant a response, but I'm bored this morning and grumpy as hell. "If a”
Posted on Both Were Wrong, But One Was Wronger July 24, 2009 9:07 AM - “The post from Crooked Timber, it's interesting in outlining how this incident played out in the eyes of the police”
Posted on Both Were Wrong, But One Was Wronger July 24, 2009 7:19 AM - “Great article. It's more than a bit troubling that a recent ex-head of the SEC thinks HFT is even a”
Posted on High frequency traders – a phoney explanation when nobody seems to know the real explanation July 24, 2009 6:52 AM - “"I think he thought he was making reasonable, balanced, uncontroversial remarks" If that's true, you'd have to mark down Obama”
Posted on Racists Come Out Of The Woodwork July 23, 2009 12:24 PM - “Count me among those who was pretty surprised Obama responded in detail to the Gates question. Not for anything in”
Posted on Racists Come Out Of The Woodwork July 23, 2009 11:52 AM - “Two words for dealing with this: Windfall Tax. Almost to a person, bankers would be out of work if not”
Posted on Outrageous Wall Street Bonuses: Because They Can July 23, 2009 11:18 AM - “I think that's more than a bit harsh to say Dean's argument is nonsense. His point that 10 year treasuries”
Posted on Seance on Wall Street July 22, 2009 6:32 AM - “One piece of evidence that these seers have occasionally used to support their case is the fact that the price”
Posted on Seance on Wall Street July 21, 2009 6:44 AM - “It does not matter one iota whether Martha was told by Sam Waksal. In terms of the law, this is”
Posted on How did the SEC get it this wrong? The judge throws out the Mark Cuban insider trading charges July 21, 2009 6:04 AM - “You can read my post below where I suggest the Martha Stewart prosecution was quite significantly motivated by the publicity”
Posted on How did the SEC get it this wrong? The judge throws out the Mark Cuban insider trading charges July 20, 2009 12:36 PM - “As an ex-regulator, this sort of argument over "poor regulation" falls somewhere between Amazingly-Obtuse and Brazenly-Dishonest on my "Did really”
Posted on What Is to Be Done? July 20, 2009 11:17 AM - “To your main question - which John didn't answer but perhaps he will correct me if I get things wrong”
Posted on How did the SEC get it this wrong? The judge throws out the Mark Cuban insider trading charges July 20, 2009 10:02 AM - “"But she lied to investigators about an investigation that shouldn't even be happening." No way, can't agree at all. This”
Posted on How did the SEC get it this wrong? The judge throws out the Mark Cuban insider trading charges July 20, 2009 9:40 AM
