Recommended Reading
Saturday, 24 July 2004I highly recommend John Mauldin’s weekly free investment/economics newsletter. I’ve been reading it for about two or three months now, and it is really excellent every week. Mauldin is a brilliant analyst, a voracious reader, and he seems to have the pulse on current economic trends. I haven’t done much investment reading for a while, [...]
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Krugman and Giving the Terrorists What They Want
Tuesday, 20 July 2004Krugman is excellent today. I read an article a while back talking about the psychology and sociology of terrorism. Terrorists, basically by definition, do not have the military might or organization to take on any of the world’s major nation states. Neither do they have the legitimacy (for the most part) to make themselves heard [...]
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The New America Foundation
Monday, 19 July 2004I just want to note that I am extremely impressed with the work being done by the New America Foundation. I first learned of their efforts on spectrum policy several months ago. Since then, I have learned about their broad-based initiatives in fiscal policy, responsible budgeting, and health insurance. In general, their proposals are based [...]
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Institutionalized Lying
Monday, 19 July 2004No, this entry is probably not about what you think it is. The NSF requires that every CAREER proposal contain a supporting letter from the proposer’s department head. This letter must contain the following sentence: “I have read and I endorse this career-development plan.” (There are some other required sentences as well, but this is [...]
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Pretty Wild
Monday, 19 July 2004No time to comment this morning, but this is pretty wild. At the moment, the “outsourcing” in question is from Missouri to Colorado. I wonder, though, how long it will be before they start setting up call centers in India. (Before anyone makes wild assumptions, my general feelings on outsourcing put me at odds with [...]
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Fishy Chemistry
Saturday, 17 July 2004I took my aquarium water to the fish store to be tested this week. The findings: Ammonia level is at about 1 ppm; this is good for a newly established tank. Nitrite level undetectably low; this is good, but I find it a little suspicious. The pH, though, was up around 8.4. This is bad. [...]
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