February 2009
13 posts
Life After a 5-year Career
The hope is that the best and brightest now will see another era as we saw in the 30’s, as we saw in the progressive era at the turn of the 20th century, where people go into public life. Where they really want to go into government and make this government work, where they want to become teachers.
Eating my dinner of mac & cheese and watching Doris Kearns Goodwin on Charlie Rose...
“Everyone is going to be cautious about spending for a long time from now on,...”
– Emanuel Derman
“In a point of full disclosure, I note that he has been a friend for some 40...”
– Charlie Rose, on his show, introducing John Mack tonight. Full disclosure, indeed!
“If you believe that capitalism is a system in which money matters more than...”
– Edward Lucas’s book “The New Cold War: Putin’s Russia and the Threat to the West”, via Emanuel Derman
NYC & Coworking Partnership
Some awesome news today out of New York City! Mayor Bloomberg is announcing a partnership with coworking spaces and others to bring investment and publicity to startups here in NYC. Tony’s currently mum on details, but he’s posted this.
Before the official announcement, it’s being reported by The NYTimes and several others:
From CNET:
According to a source in the...
"There's just as much danger in a football game."
Watching CNBC’s report on the housing bubble, I’m reminded of the wonderful Dylan song “Who Killed Davey Moore”:
Who killed Davey Moore, Why an’ what’s the reason for?
“Not I,” says the referee, “Don’t point your finger at me. I could’ve stopped it in the eighth An’ maybe kept him from his fate, But the crowd...
“Name me a market that is a trillion dollar market, that directly touches a...”
– Subprime-shorter Kyle Bass via CNBC’s “House of Cards”
“At more than 1,500 pages, the House and Senate versions of the economic stimulus...”
– Fox News outsourcing…um…journalism. From “Fox News, The Fox Forum, You Decide! We Ask You Answer.”
“President Obama going over lawmakers heads meeting with real-life economic...”
– CNN anchor Kyra Phillips, summing up the scene immediately after Obama’s Q&A town hall with 1,700 people in Elkart, Indiana.
Excellent Debate on Stimulus & Economics
Today’s edition of This Week with George Stephenopolis starts with an excellent debate over Obama’s stimulus bill. It’s a sweeping, fantastic 30-minute discussion. I guess I’m posting this excerpt so I don’t forget it.
Jim DeMint, (R-SC)
You can look back through history, and leaving more money in the economy through tax cuts is the way that works… This...