February 2012
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“Last month’s historic protests, with millions of Americans registering their...”
– Parker Higgins in Dear Hollywood: An Open Letter to the Hardworking Men and Women in the Entertainment Industries | Electronic Frontier Foundation
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“We’ve seen this movie before, and we know how it ends. The right answer to the...”
– Parker Higgins in Dear Hollywood: An Open Letter to the Hardworking Men and Women in the Entertainment Industries | Electronic Frontier Foundation
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“I have lost more money to creative accounting, and American workers have lost...”
– Wil Wheaton, quoted by Parker Higgins in Dear Hollywood: An Open Letter to the Hardworking Men and Women in the Entertainment Industries | Electronic Frontier Foundation
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“So this is where we end up. Mitt Romney pays low tax rates on his capital gains...”
– Why Mitt Romney Should Pay Higher Taxes (via azspot)
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Universal health care, pro and con →
My basic argument is that, all other things being equal, it is better to have a society in which everyone has access to medical care than a society in which tens of millions of people can’t afford the medical care they need. I have cancer. Because I have Medicare and supplemental insurance, I can afford the hormone injections that keep it at bay. If I was one of the millions of Americans...
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“During the past 30 years, a growing share of the global economic pie has been...”
– Why economic inequality leads to collapse (via abaldwin360)
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“Our most dangerous opponents, in fact, look and speak like us. They hijack...”
– Chris Hedges (via azspot)
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“On the whole, ACTA negotiators created an agreement that shifts international...”
– Sean Flynn and Bijan Madhini in Act on ACTA: Access to Medicines
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“Beyond broadening the scope of copyright, patent and trademarks enforcement,...”
– Debunking the EU Commission’s Lies About ACTA | La Quadrature du Net
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“Executive pay at Britain’s top 100 publicly listed companies for 2010 rose on...”
– Julia Werdigier in In Britain, a Rising Outcry Over Lavish Executive Pay - NYTimes.com
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“If there’s one thing that encapsulates what’s wrong with the way government...”
– Maira Sutton and Parker Higgins in We Have Every Right to Be Furious About ACTA | Electronic Frontier Foundation
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“However, at the Fed’s September 2007 meeting, New York Fed president Timothy...”
– Is Decoupling Possible in a Global Economy? | The Big Picture
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“One of the questions that came up was fund manager under-performance. Starting...”
– Barry Ritholtz in Is Anyone Any Good at Picking Hedge Fund Managers? | The Big Picture
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“Public anger grew after newspapers reported plans for million-pound pay packages...”
– Julia Werdigier in In Britain, a Rising Outcry Over Lavish Executive Pay - NYTimes.com
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“I want to denounce in the strongest possible manner the entire process that led...”
– Kader Ari, former rapporteur for ACTA in the European Parliament, quoted by Maira Sutton and Parker Higgins in We Have Every Right to Be Furious About ACTA | Electronic Frontier Foundation
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“Europe got caught halfway in its integration process. The monetary union was (or...”
– Dani Rodrik in Eight Leading Economists Sound Off on Europe’s Fiscal Woes - The Daily Beast
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“The total amount of sovereign debt maturing in 2012 exceeds $1 trillion. We...”
– Is Decoupling Possible in a Global Economy? | The Big Picture
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“Credit default swaps further muddy the waters. The restructuring is being...”
– Peter Coy and Matthew Philips in A Greek Default: It’s a-Comin’ - Businessweek
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“The statute before us … does not encourage anyone to produce a single new...”
– Justice Breyer, quoted by Corynne McSherry in Supreme Court Gets It Wrong in Golan v. Holder, Public Domain Mourns | Electronic Frontier Foundation
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“Total average pay of chief executives rose 33 percent in 2010 while average...”
– Julia Werdigier in In Britain, a Rising Outcry Over Lavish Executive Pay - NYTimes.com
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“In Europe private debt has fallen much less and in some cases even risen. In...”
– Free exchange: The hangover | The Economist
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“Even so, do not dismiss the investigation out of hand because of the timing:...”
– Barry Ritholtz in A modern Pecora Commission to right Wall Street’s wrongs - The Washington Post
January 2012
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“One lesson that can be drawn from this look backward at past U.S. migration is...”
– Joseph Ferrie in A Nation No Longer On The Move (Part II) : Planet Money : NPR
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“We think Europe’s recession has the potential to be worse than most U.S....”
– Is Decoupling Possible in a Global Economy? | The Big Picture
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“Inappropriate levels of executive reward have destroyed public trust and led to...”
– Dominic Rossi of Fidelity Worldwide Investment, quoted by Julia Werdigier In Britain, a Rising Outcry Over Lavish Executive Pay - NYTimes.com
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“So, here we are, four years after the great financial collapse, three years...”
– Barry Ritholtz in A modern Pecora Commission to right Wall Street’s wrongs - The Washington Post
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“ACTA imposes new criminal sanctions, bypassing the EU and Member States’...”
– ACTA: Updated Analysis of the Final Version | La Quadrature du Net
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“The (Internet) giant has stopped this craziness—here and now. But the challenge...”
– Lawrence Lessig (via azspot)
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“Although Euro area member states “will explore the options” to keep the...”
– Jacques Caillou, chief economist at RBS, quoted by Paul Murphy in FT Alphaville » RBS on those S&P downgrades
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“There are additional technical arguments that would favour more cautious IMF...”
– Wolfgang Münchau in IMF should stay out of the eurozone crisis - FT.com
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“The International Monetary Fund insists any deal must ensure Greece’s debt...”
– Greece needs sustainable debt by 2020: German finance minister - Yahoo! Finance
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“Specifically, the Oliver Wyman study assumes that every dollar disallowed in...”
– Simon Johnson in Should We Trust Paid Experts On The Volcker Rule? « The Baseline Scenario
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“Implementation of the Basel III capital rules with regard to banks with...”
– Alex Barker and Brooke Masters in Paris and Berlin seek to dilute bank rules - FT.com
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“Considering that the eurozone is economically unconstrained, and among the...”
– Wolfgang Münchau in IMF should stay out of the eurozone crisis - FT.com
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“The upcoming [European Stability Mechanism] will however also face a difficult...”
– Jacques Caillou, chief economist at RBS, quoted by Paul Murphy in FT Alphaville » RBS on those S&P downgrades
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“What’s most infuriating to me about all this is that Apple had an opportunity to...”
– Ed Bott in How Apple is sabotaging an open standard for digital books | ZDNet
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“Apple, in this EULA, is claiming a right not just to its software, but to its...”
– Dan Wineman in The Unprecedented Audacity of the iBooks Author EULA
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“There’s a paradox to economic policy. The more it succeeds at prolonging...”
– Robert J. Samuelson in Why the Federal Reserve slept before the housing crisis - The Washington Post
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The next SOPA →
The MPAA studios hate us. They hate us with region locks and unskippable screens and encryption and criminalization of fair use. They see us as stupid eyeballs with wallets, and they are entitled to a constant stream of our money. They despise us, and they certainly don’t respect us.
Yet when we watch their movies, we support them.
Even if we don’t watch their movies in a theater or buy their...
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“To those who say that our expenditures for Public Works and other means for...”
– FDR (via azspot)
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“Hollywood wants to take the law into their own hands — they had our...”
– Clay Shirky (via azspot)
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“Buffett’s sin is that he spoke a truth that [right-wingers] want to keep covered...”
– Why [right-wingers] hate Warren Buffett (via ryking)
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“Is it really as dire as all that? It’s an emergency is it? Tim [O’Reilly]...”
– Jonathan Coulton
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“A second characteristic for complexity in economics, and finance in particular,...”
– Rick Bookstaber in Human Complexity and the Strategic Games of Uncertainty
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“No Mr Gruebel: there will always be criminals, there will always be people who...”
– John Hempton in Bronte Capital: Some comments on the UBS Rogue Trader
“The amount of money the central bank parceled out was surprising even to Gary H....”
– Bob Ivry, Bradley Keoun and Phil Kuntz in Secret Fed Loans Gave Banks Undisclosed $13B - Bloomberg
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“Although Euro area member states “will explore the options” to keep the...”
– Jacques Caillou, chief economist at RBS, quoted by Paul Murphy in FT Alphaville » RBS on those S&P downgrades
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“Democracies suffer not only from their slow reaction time at moments of crisis,...”
– Dominique Moïsi, on the difficulties for democracies to respond to crises. (via europeanvoice)
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“To sum up, throughout this European debt and banking crisis, Eurozone leaders...”
– Morris Goldstein in Stop coddling Europe’s banks | vox - Research-based policy analysis and commentary from leading economists