The Washington Post's Perry Bacon, Jr. really is the worst reporter ever.
I cannot transcribe or even copy-and-paste any of it. It is too horrible.
Shut it down. Shut it down now.
Why oh why can't we have a better press corps?
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The Washington Post's Perry Bacon, Jr. really is the worst reporter ever.
I cannot transcribe or even copy-and-paste any of it. It is too horrible.
Shut it down. Shut it down now.
Why oh why can't we have a better press corps?
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No wonder Tareq and Michaele Salahi, the Virginia couple and "Real Housewives" wannabes that crashed Obama's first state dinner last week, are looking for big bucks to tell their story.
They apparently owe a lot of money to a lot of people.
CNN [...]
I hope they get this sorted out. Fast.
Amid widening concern over unintended acceleration events, including an Aug. 28 crash near San Diego that killed a California Highway Patrol officer and his family, Toyota has repeatedly pointed to "floor mat entrapment" as the problem.
But accounts from motorists [...]
Click on graph for larger image in new window.This is disgusting. [...]
Click on graph for larger image in new window.Shut 'em both down now. Please. The stupid--it BURNS!!!!
Duncan Black:
Eschaton: Slutty Schoolgirl? Really? I thought the Newsweek cover was obviously a poor choice even if right wingers were getting a bit overwrought in their criticisms. But they also include a slutty Palin schoolgirl doll? What the fuck? Of' [...]
This is the opening of my essay that I blogged on last week, “How Little We Know,” on the hopes for financial reform:
When an airplane crashes, expert investigators probe the cause of the crash. Their analysis can lead to changes in aircraft design, flight procedures, and regulations in hopes of [...]
Michael Fletcher and Neil Irwin are an embarrassment to the Washington Post.
Think of that.
Let's turn the mike over to Tim Fernholz:
TAPPED Archive | The American Prospect: President Obama has announced his intention to hold a Jobs Summit at the White House, reacting to the high unemployment rate and [...]
Yet another journamalistic enterprise that we would all be better off without, and that in a just world would dry up and blow away immediately. Menzie Chinn has the mike:
Econbrowser: Politico Does Economic Analysis...: Be afraid; be very afraid.
From "'Created or saved' doesn't add up", by' [...]
But is that the real threat?
FELIX SALMON, back from a long blog vacation, is keeping his eyes open for the next big crash, and he thinks his old boss Nouriel Roubini has spotted a good candidate:Nouriel’s analysis is quite compelling, given the way the carry trade works. In [...]
I've had a vague sense of late that there's a connection between the weak dollar, on the one hand, and rising asset prices, on the other. But I took some comfort in that: prices aren't really going up as much as they look, it's just that the dollar's going down, [...]
“The Securities and Exchange Commission should be very interested in any financial company that secretly decides a financial product is a loser and then goes out and actively markets that product or very similar products to unsuspecting customers without disclosing its true opinion. This is fraud and should be prosecuted.”
-Laurence [...]
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Goldman Sachs’ secret bets.
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Source:
How Goldman secretly bet on the U.S. housing crash
Greg Gordon
McClatchy Newspapers, November 1, 2009
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/227/story/77791.html
Does the sobriety of depression lead to crashes?
TYLER COWEN links to a very interesting study, which depressives should enjoy (or not): Bad moods can actually be good for you, with an Australian study finding that being sad makes people less gullible, improves their ability to judge others and [...]
Outsourced to Stan Collender:
Attention Wall Street Journal: The Wall Street Journal should be so ashamed of this that it should voluntarily print not just a correction but also an apology. This lead and third graph are reprehensible:
With the federal estate tax disappearing for most people, [...]
Remember that rally yesterday? All gone and then some ..."Give us fiscal continence--but not yet." That's a very good line. I am going to steal it.
You know, Warren Buffett and company could choose to make the Washington Post as informative and as witty as the Financial Times tomorrow--if they cared to. Both may die in the coming crash of [...]
