Sunday, December 7, 2008

Reading List

TW: Have started to queue up more articles than I can reasonably post with commentary so I am going to start providing some links with brief descriptors of those articles I find interesting and worth a read, should you be so inclined.

1) Robert Samuelson in Newsweek on health care and the need to avoid pipedreams
http://www.newsweek.com/id/157573
2) A New Yorker article on Crawford, TX W. Bush's temporary Potemkin ranch locale
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/10/13/081013fa_fact_colloff
3) A Fortune article on HENRYs (high earners not yet rich), who would be taxed more heavily with Obama. I have never heard so much whining in my life and either the numbers they discuss are wrong or some folks really need to get some financial advice.
http://money.cnn.com/2008/10/24/magazines/fortune/tully_henrys.fortune/index.htm
4) From Int'l Herald Tribune Bob Rubin and Jared Bernstein (since named as Biden's chief econ advisor) discuss reconciling stimulus spending with fiscal discipline
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/11/03/opinion/edrubin.php
5) From Financial Times, the author of Black Swan and Fooled by Randomness, Nassim Taleb and a colleague lament the crime perpetrated by rapacious investment bankers and their risk management accomplices upon the rest of us.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/4f86d422-c48f-11dd-8124-000077b07658.html

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