Posted in economics on May 31, 2008 | No Comments »
on LA real estate. Gives me the opportunity to point out that the standard view is to blame the poorer for trying to invest and gain. The reality is that people who had to buy houses, or wanted to, had to pay more than they would have if there had not been a bubble.
The lenders [...]
Posted in 9500 on May 30, 2008 | No Comments »
Good pictures for GardenWorld, NY at two extremes
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Stephen Toulmin wrote Cosmopolis in which he showed that the 16th C was a century of crisis, the thirty years war, climate, unemployment - and the result was the enlightenment project of a minimal dialog about clear things. He says that the previous generation of [...]
Posted in GardenWorld books, daily notes on May 29, 2008 | No Comments »
Most serious, the nations will not manage collectively energy and climate, but each seek advantage, rationalized by “there are too many people for a world wide single solution.”
It is amazing to see the emergence of Obama as a major personality.Let’s hpe that the heroic and clear projected onto him is accurate perception.
The McClelland book is [...]
Posted in 9500 on May 27, 2008 | No Comments »
Imagine that everyone is franchised on the internet and disenfranchised in the real world. That is, will full participation in cyberspace, no home, no job, no food, no health.
Posted in 9500 on May 27, 2008 | No Comments »
The theme here is powerful. And the article just hints.
Basics
Curriculum Designed to Unite Art and Science
By NATALIE ANGIER
Senator Barack Obama likes to joke that the battle for the Democratic presidential nomination has been going on so long, babies have been born, and they’re already walking and talking.
That’s nothing. The battle between [...]
Posted in 9500 on May 26, 2008 | No Comments »
When the nation is fragmenting, those at the margins are threatened, and those responsible for service and order are overwhelmed.
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i saw the movie Forgetting about Sarah. Reviews have been mixed but the structure is classic tragedy/comedy and the puppet scene near the end is delightful and creative. The characters are a real handful - stereotypes [...]
Posted in 9500 on May 25, 2008 | No Comments »
Marshall has a great summary.http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/196722.php
The Long View
If you haven’t already had read it, let me recommend George Packer’s piece in The New Yorker on the “fall” of conservatism. He weaves together a thousand threads of the story in a way any magazine writer knows is terribly difficult to pull off. For the article Packer had [...]
Posted in 9500 on May 24, 2008 | No Comments »
To understand what is happening, conservative writers often have real insight because, being financially inclined, they want to know what is really going on. Here is an example.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/rothbard66.html
Wall Street, Banks, and American ForeignPolicy
by Murray N. Rothbardby Murray N. Rothba
This first appeared in World Market Perspective (1984) and later as a monograph published [...]
Posted in 9500 on May 24, 2008 | No Comments »
Don’t we need to start thinking about finance and the Internet as commons, as basic infrastructure that should be run clean and free as facilitators of activity, not the activity themselves?
I’ve been reading Carlota Perez.
http://www.carlotaperez.org/papers/PEREZ%20Finance%20and%20Technical%20Change.pdf
on why fiance is in the way of the spread of the technical benefits of the Internet.
Also re-looking at Manuel Castells’s [...]
Posted in 9500 on May 22, 2008 | No Comments »
Steve wrote a report on an openspace I did with Telluride. Typical of his engaging generosity. He was a person full of heart and hard work.
Telluride, Colorado Ideas Festival: Tele-community.July 23-25, 1993
