The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
How Moody’s sold its ratings – and sold out investors Kevin G. Hall McClatchy Newspapers October 21, 2009 A McClatchy investigation has found that Moody’s punished executives who questioned why the company was risking its reputation by putting its profits ahead of providing trustworthy ratings for investment offerings. . . . . . . . …
Prohibition Fighter As a Harvard grad, former Princeton professor, and the son of a respected rabbi, Ethan Nadelmann might seem like an unlikely advocate for legalizing marijuana. But when you meet him, it all makes a lot of sense. David Lyons, Newsweek, 15 October 2009 The idea is not that drugs are good but that prohibition is …
India’s Demographic Moment With the right conditions in place — education, entrepreneurialism, and environmental awareness among them — a young, eager, educated workforce can be the key to prosperity. by Nandan Nilekani August 27, 2009 Harvard Business Review When conditions are right, large numbers of young workers can drive a nation’s growth to remarkable levels. …
The latest campus revolutionaries are the so-called edupunks — and their mission is to break up the ivory tower so everyone can pile into the classroom. MIT was the first university to heed the edupunk call: it started posting syllabi, course notes and videotaped lectures on ocw.mit.edu back in 2001. Harvard, Berkeley, Yale, Princeton and …
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It’s Time to Legalize Drugs By Peter Moskos and Stanford “Neill” Franklin The Washington Post, Monday, August 17, 2009 Undercover Baltimore police officer Dante Arthur was doing what he does well, arresting drug dealers, when he approached a group in January. What he didn’t know was that one of suspects knew from a previous arrest …
In the attached essay, my friend Jeff Madrick uses the unbridled greed of the finance industry (now trying to rescue itself from its own excesses by sucking at the government teat) to highlight the basic hypocrisy in the so-called free-market economy of go-go capitalism. Jeff summarizes the results of two recent mainstream economic studies which …
Exquisite in Every Respect, Two-Fifths Equations & Charts, April 3, 2008
