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Tis the season…
As we metabolize our way through the annual tryptophan haze, two contributions on a theme that’s been raised here before (c.f., for example, here, here, and most fundamentally, here), two video commentaries on the current state of economic pl...
One-upping Gordon Gekko…
A guest post from (Roughly) Daily… source “The injunction of Jesus to love others as ourselves is an endorsement of self-interest,” Goldman’s Griffiths said Oct. 20, his voice echoing around the gold-mosaic walls of St. Paul’s ...
Back to the land…
source: Grameen Foundation The Grameen Bank and the micro-lending boom that it spawned didn’t set out to discriminate by gender in its lending. Still, the preponderance of their loans are to women. As the Grameen Foundation web site explai...
The only winning strategy is not to play the game…
How is it that America legislative politics have gotten so out of touch, so out of hand– so out of whack? It’s no secret that lobbying has contorted the system. Here, from UC Berkeley Post-Doc Fellow David Zetland, a wonderfully elega...
The romance of retailing…
A guest post from (Roughly Daily): source But then, Zippy can console himself that, as recent honoree H.L. Mencken observed, “no one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.” As we revisit our plans to op...
Hoist on our own placards…
source So, further to the last several posts… why aren’t more Americans protesting the pass-through of bail-out money as bonuses to the financial executives whose deeds are effectively indistinguishable for those of Madoff or Drier? Wh...

