November 2009
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EU Chamber Warns on Chinese Overcapacity →
The pattern for Asian countries seems to be: 1) export to the US, helping your economy 2) in order to keep your US$ exchange rate low, buy US bonds 3) lower US interest rates, give boost to your own banking system 4) get a lending boom, with overvalued assets and too much investment 5) overcapacity leads to asset deflation and a banking crisis 6) spend the next decade with a weak economy and...
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“A statue of Popeye in Crystal City, Texas, commemorates the fact that...”
– T J Hamblin, British Medical Journal, 1981
I managed to miss this for the past 18 years, and still thought that spinach was a phenomenal source of iron.
From a presentation I went to tonight (it's not 10...
A bat and a ball cost a total of $1.10. The bat costs $1.00 more than the ball.
How much does the ball cost?
Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable
lsotd:
“When a 14 year old kid can blow up your business in his spare time, not because he hates you but because he loves you, then you got a problem.” (Gordy Thompson, idem)
Society doesn’t need newspapers. What we need is journalism. For a century, the imperatives to strengthen journalism and to strengthen newspapers have been so tightly wound as to be indistinguishable. That’s been a fine...
Cell Size and Scale - a clean version of the... →
(via lsotd)
This is fun! I enjoyed zooming in and out to try to get a better sense of the scale.
