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More On The Supposed Economic Illiteracy Of Bloggers And Other Links

Must-reads Rajiv Sethi: On Blogs and Economic Discourse Time to shut down the US Federal Reserve? – Telegraph Blogs The Usual Fare Morgan Stanley – Global Economic Forum – The Case for Argentina Leaving oil spill alone might have been better for environment – National Post Zoo plans to bring rare animals back from the

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On Bloggers’ Supposed Economic Ignorance and Other Links

In defense of bloggers on the economy Marginal Revolution: How hard is economics? Signal and Noise in Economics Writing, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty Matthew Yglesias » Do I Have Anything Interesting to Say? TheMoneyIllusion » Why won’t those &$*%#@ bloggers go away? FT Alphaville » Bloggers can’t do economics.

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Portrait of the anonymous online poster

Check out the related article at the Globe below. Where are the gals, pray tell? Hat tip Tracy Alloway Source: Inside the mind of the anonymous online poster – Boston Globe

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Edward Hugh profiled in the New York Times and other links

Must-Read Blog Prophet of Euro Zone Doom – NYTimes.com The Usual Fare BBC News – Finland in double-dip recession Sarkozy, Merkel urge faster EU curbs on speculation – National Post BP well may be spewing 100,000 barrels a day, scientist says | McClatchy Guest Post: Predatory Pharma – An End to Too Big to Nail?

Lena Horne: 1917-2010

Sources Lena Horne Dies at Age 92 – Art Beat Lena Horne – Wikipedia Lena Horne Obituary – The State, SC Remembering Groundbreaking Jazz Icon, Actress Lena Horne –

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Full Statement of UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Decision to Step Down

Below is the transcript of Brown’s remarks. "We have a parliamentary and not presidential system in this country and as I said on Friday, with no party able to command a parliamentary majority arising from the general election, my constitutional duty as prime minister is to ensure that government continues while parties explore options for

Is the Goldman case a one-off or the first of many?

This is THE issue that everyone wants to know. When I wrote the The politics of the Goldman fraud case and referred to "leeway in how to proceed later against Goldman and other firms using the same practice," I meant that it was not at all clear whether this was a politically-motivated one–off or the

Vicky Ward: On Lehman "we really do need prosecutors to get people into a courtroom"

Vicky Ward, author of "The Devil’s Casino: Friendship, Betrayal, and the High Stakes Games Played Inside Lehman Brothers," told Bloomberg that prosecutors need to get going if we are going to get any answers regarding why Lehman Brothers collapsed in a heap in the largest bankruptcy in US history and revealing a massive $150 billion

Twitter’s Evan Williams explains strategy, revenue and promoted tweets

Also see: Twitter Has a Plan to Make Money With Ads – NYTimes.com Library of Congress to Preserve Tweets for Eternity – Mashable Bit.ly Links Get Clicked 3.4 Billion Times A Month, New Features Coming – Tech Crunch The Twitter Platform’s Inflection Point – A VC Does Rest Of World Matter More Than The US?

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Recovery Triumphalism and the Committee to Save Wall Street

I am starting a new list of articles on my reading list which point to the success of what Marshall Auerback calls "The Committee to Save Wall Street," with this Newsweek cover as a contrarian indicator. The point is that the propaganda machine is out in full force. We are likely to see some serious

Koo, White, Soros and Akerloff videos from inaugural INET conference

These videos are from the Inaugural Institute of New Economic Thinking (INET) conference in Cambridge. Hat Tip Mark Thoma

Which media companies will have a hard time adapting?

I originally wrote this post under a different title yesterday. I have changed the title to more accurately reflect what I am driving at in the post. Otherwise the post is exactly the same. The question is: which media companies will find their revenue streams threatened by the shift in the financial media landscape? I