Business:
http://lbrandy.com/blog/2009/02/how-did-we-geeks-become-experts-on-macro...
When did geeks become economics experts? never. that's when.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetopics/financialcrisis/4560897...
IMF running out of cash
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/09/opinion/09krugman.html?_r=1
Krugman: The Destructive Center
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123414304204261913.html
The Worthless MBA
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/15-Companies-That-Might-Not-usnews-1427987...
The more interesting aspect is absolute certainty that nerds talk about things like the Federal Reserve. It’s not like other topics. In, for example, discussions about finer points of the x86 architecture, you’ll find a bunch of nerds happily discussing what they know and happily learning from others. But in a discussion of economics? Oh, no. Everyone is a fucking expert. Every, single, person in the discussion is an expert. Except, of course, they aren’t. None of them are.
Business:
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1877388-1,00.html
A New Bretton Woods? More powerful IMF. What will the world do?
http://www.newsweek.com/id/183670
The Canadian Solution (Fareed Zakaria - one of my personal favorites)
http://www.forbes.com/2009/02/05/obama-stimulus-republicans-opinions-col...
'economists who support Keynesian spending programs in theory tend to overlook the self-interested behavior of the politicians who must spend all the money in practice.'
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Been a crazy week... haven't been updating as often as I would have liked. This one is big.
Business:
http://finance.yahoo.com/tech-ticker/article/169961/Peter-Schiff-Why-I%2...
Pride. Don't have an exit strategy? You and the war in Iraq.
http://www.slate.com/id/2210620/pagenum/all/
Why Amazon is thriving (hint: economies of scale, customer service)
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/02/how_theresa_hatt_cause...
Bank of America: deceptive collection processes
Wednesday I attended Media Evolution and it was a lot of fun. The reason I went was to see Chris Anderson, editor-in-chief of WIRED magazine, speak. It was interesting to hear him speak, mainly about his new book Free which is about everything digital going to cost basically nothing and how business can take advantage of this and continue to make money.
Creative Business Card:
Business:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/02/opinion/02krugman.html?_r=2
Krugman: buy the damn banks already, nationalize.
http://www.alternet.org/workplace/124166/is_the_entire_bailout_strategy_...
Spraying water at -20 degrees F.
Why is my girlfriend mad at me?
Business:
http://www.140characters.com/2009/01/30/how-twitter-was-born/
The story of how Twitter was born
http://www.jbryanscott.com/2009/01/31/opentable-a-killer-platform-youve-...
Open Table IPO
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/this-site-may-harm-your-computer-...
What caused google show 'this site may harm your computer' on nearly every search
http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2009/01/19/search-advertising-runs-into-the-...
Search advertising recession
http://www.beingpeterkim.com/2008/12/social-media-2009.html
Social Media Predictions 2009
