Still Too Big, Still Can’t Fail – WSJ.com. … He said what..? === The 2010 Dodd-Frank law was sold as a way to prevent future bank bailouts. But so few people believe it that Sheila Bair, chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, has embarked on a campaign to convince the markets that next time really will be different. On Friday... Read more
Archive for the ‘American Thought’ Category
What about American Oil?
March 4 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Economics, Politically correct, The LeftSean Parnell: Time to Get Serious About American Oil – WSJ.com. Assume there are only 120 million adults in the US who might understand this. Are there anymore than 25% who do? ========
Notable & Quotable – WSJ.com
March 4 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, ObamaNotable & Quotable – WSJ.com. Don’t be afraid of the “big words”… =:) ========== Leon Wieseltier writing at the New Republic on March 2: As the dictators fall, the clichés fall, too. Cairo and Tunis and Tripoli are littered with the shards of platitudes about what is possible and what is impossible in Arab societies, in closed societies. Civilizational analysis... Read more
The Information
March 1 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, PhilosophyBook Review: The Information Very, very interesting. Maybe more important than all the other articles I’ve posted this week. == By JOHN HORGAN In 1989, I traveled to a Boston suburb to interview Claude Shannon, the inventor of information theory.... Read more