Over the weekend I happened to pick up Six Errors on the Path to the Financial Crisis from the DealBook Blog on the NYTimes.com. It’s short, well written, and well thought-out. It doesn’t even mention the war in Iraq and…
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Economics
If a picture is worth a thousand words, what’s placement, and juxtaposition worth? The image here is exactly as it came through in Twitter. Losers and winners and losers, almost all at once. The combination says so much more than…
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Last Saturday I sat in the front seat of a big white van headed from San Miguel de Allende, in Mexico, to the airport in Leon. It was mid morning. We drove through a bright, blue, dry high-desert landscape on…
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I had an argument a few days ago with my younger brother, who says the real problem with the economy these days is the news media are scaring everybody. Without all the news channels reporting all the bad business news,…
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Does it hurt? The bailouts, major layoffs, stocks down, houses down … so how is small business doing? I’ve posted some bad news here already. I’ve got more. Almost one of every three business owners said they’d laid people off…
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I just picked up USA as a Restart on Early Stage VC. Very well done. Provocative. “The USA looks like a classic Restart ‘opportunity.’ What happens in a restart? First, existing stakeholders get wiped out; The $7T of ‘new money’…
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My wife came in the other day with the recently arrived TIME magazine luxury edition. I agreed with her sentiment, which was basically: “What, are they crazy?” It’s hardly a time for talk about luxury. Technically, I think it was…
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One month later, I still think one of the best, possibly the best, think piece that I’ve seen about the economic crisis is Paul Krugman’s The Widening Gyre column in the New York Times in late October. His first paragraph:…
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I’d like everybody who possibly can, to listen to ‘Obama’s Challenge’: A Transformative Opportunity, a 38-minute interview, podcast, from NPR’s Fresh Air which broadcast on Thursday November 6. This seems really important to me. Hopeful as well, as if maybe…
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