This just in from Reuters: The global flight from risk knocked precious metals again on Friday, with gold falling below $650 an ounce for the first time in three weeks as shaky global stock markets prompted investors to reduce positions in commodities. Investors often buy gold as a safe bet when financial markets look unstable, [...]
The major league Klein-on-Klein discussion on blogging that I inadvertently instigated continues apace. Anyway, it’s not my discussion anymore, but I’ve got two final things to say: 1) Both those Klein guys were born to blog. 2) I remember pretty clearly that, in Who Will Tell People (I can’t give an exact quote because my [...]
This is great! My (mostly) joking riff on the Mainstream Blogosphere caught the attention of certified Mainstream Blogger Ezra Klein. Then our own MSBer-in-the-making Joe Klein, sitting at home around midnight, “major league vodka” in hand, wrote a post about the other Klein’s post about my post. Ezra’s point was that he had some understanding [...]
