A couple of months ago I lamented my struggle with the flood of blog posts that poured through my Google Reader, even though I only subscribed at the time to 16 feeds, and asked for advice about what to do. In the comments, Felix Salmon recommended that I “get get a proper (ie not web-based) [...]
Okay, I’ll admit it. I want to write like Nick Carr when I grow up: “Once every hundred years media changes,” boy-coder turned big-thinker Mark Zuckerberg declared today at the Facebook Social Advertising Event in New York City. And it’s true. Look back over the last millennium or two, and you’ll see that every century, [...]
What to make of the falling dollar? The Italian economist is hopeful (via Mark Thoma): Results from numerical exercises developed in joint work with Martin, and Pesenti, suggests that closing the US current account deficit (from 5% of GDP to zero) could lead to a combination of lower US consumption (-6%), and higher US employment [...]
