Curious Capitalist Jr. and I were just walking down Broadway when we saw these boxes stacked on the sidewalk outside a grocery store. We both found the name very strange. And you?
From a poll published yesterday by WorldPublicOpinion.org: Not that surprising in general: Everybody knows Asians and Americans like capitalism best. Although the Africans are up there too! The huge gap between France on the one side and Germany and Italy on the other surprised me. And what’s up with Turkey? The general global trend in [...]
Former Curious Capitalist guest blogger Mark Gimein has a nice scaremongering piece in Slate (or is it on Slate? At Slate?) about the next mortgage shoe to drop: affluent Californians with option ARMs. The most common subprime loans were known as “2/28″ in the industry: 30 years, including a two-year teaser rate before the interest [...]
After gently bashing the Straight Talking One yesterday, it seems only fair to share this little bit from Jonathan Rauch’s defense, from the May Atlantic, of John McCain as a Burkean (as in Edmund Burke) conservative: McCain voted against Bush’s big tax cuts, but now says he supports extending them rather than risking damage to [...]
