Thursday, October 9, 2008
Typographically, the Republic of Korea has much to celebrate.
Thursday, October 9, 2008
A handsome hombre Mexicano appears and asks if I would like breakfast. I say yes and settle back against the voluminous white cushions on the day-bed, half-in, half-out of the sun. I look out at the ocean. I look at my computer. I look backwards toward the mountains and think, this sure was a good [...]
Saturday, October 4, 2008
To listen to John McCain in debate and on the stump, you would think that he was refighting his war, which ended in a hasty, unseemly retreat as the enemy circled and stormed the last outposts.
That is not, militarily, the position we find ourselves facing in Iraq. We can withdraw at the time and pace [...]
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
anyone who can criticise ‘the eminently resistible prose style of [Wood's] donnish, finicky persona’, and then write phrases like ‘Wood’s study must be vast, with well-stocked shelves, judging by the inarguable erudition displayed in his compact vade mecum’, must be pretty immune to irony.”
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Barometers of financial stress hit record peaks across the world. Yields on short-term US Treasuries hit their lowest level since the London Blitz, while gold had its biggest one-day gain ever in dollar terms. Lending between banks, in effect, stopped.”
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Friday, September 12, 2008
Bush would have read Plutarch, Cicero and Machiavelli.”
Saturday, September 6, 2008
Older than Argus by far, he dogs my steps
He runs behind and runs around, he runs ahead
They say, who say they know, they say, they say
He’s me, been where I’ve been, growled what I have
Eaten my vomit, sniffed where I’ve stepped in it
Paws up or at the throat, slinking away or baying
They know me, they [...]
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Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Organizations will work tirelessly to de-personalize every communication medium they encounter.
A yet more ambitious approach to macroprudential regulation would involve an attempt by regulators to develop a more fully integrated overview of the entire financial system. In principle, such an approach would appear well justified, as our financial system has become less bank-centered and because activities or risk-taking not permitted to regulated institutions have a [...]