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Steady Blogging: NYT on "forced entrepreneurship"
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SteadyBlogging on Twitter (SteadyTweets? Follow me on Twitter. Saturday, March 14, 2009. NYT on "forced entrepreneurship". Lead story on nytimes.com this morning, and also on A1 of today's print edition. Just below the fold): " Weary of Looking for Work, Some Create Their Own. About the growing phenomenon of "forced entrepreneurship.". Mark V. Cannice, executive director of the entrepreneurship program at the. University of San Francisco, calls the phenomenon “forced entrepreneurship.”. Back to this gras...
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Steady Blogging: Sanford Grossman / Deleveraging society
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SteadyBlogging on Twitter (SteadyTweets? Follow me on Twitter. Tuesday, October 07, 2008. Sanford Grossman / Deleveraging society. Last night got to listen to Sanford Grossman ( http:/ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanford J. Grossman. Speak on the current financial/economic situation. It wasnt anything. Groundbreaking, if youve been reading the paper over the last 12. Months, but nevertheless, it was good to hear it distilled into a. Couple main themes. Namely, his distillation is that whats happening. As Gross...
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Steady Blogging: Simon & Schuster to sell books on Scribd.com
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SteadyBlogging on Twitter (SteadyTweets? Follow me on Twitter. Monday, June 15, 2009. Simon and Schuster to sell books on Scribd.com. A friend with experience in the publishing industry forwarded me this article from Friday's NYT Business section:. June 12, 2009. Simon and Schuster to Sell Digital Books on Scribd.com. The publisher said it would make about 5,000 titles available for. Purchase as the book industry sought alternatives to Amazon's Kindle. Recall that I posted this. 4:02 AM, February 12, 2010.
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Steady Blogging: Galbraith on financial bubbles and busts
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SteadyBlogging on Twitter (SteadyTweets? Follow me on Twitter. Saturday, March 14, 2009. Galbraith on financial bubbles and busts. Me quoting Mark Thoma. Quoting John Kenneth Galbraith. In 1999, John Kenneth Galbraith explained how to spot speculative excess:. Notable and Quotable, WSJ:. From an address given by John Kenneth Galbraith at the London School of Economics in June 1999 called "The Unfinished Business of the Century":. LSE has a full transcript of the 1999 lecture here. And also what Galbraith...
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Steady Blogging: Next stop: Mumbai
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SteadyBlogging on Twitter (SteadyTweets? Follow me on Twitter. Friday, January 30, 2009. We just boarded an Air India flight, non-stop JFK to Mumbai. The next 15 hours will be: Indian food, Hindi movies, hopefully some sleep, and working thru some of the reading material we brought: a pile of this weeks newspapers (one of my favorite parts of flying.going thru and discarding a stack of paper) and starting the mere 2 books we packed. Lots of Indians on this flight.prob 95%. Actually, lots of South...We ju...
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Steady Blogging: Hank Greenberg on CBS re AIG: "greatest company in history"
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SteadyBlogging on Twitter (SteadyTweets? Follow me on Twitter. Friday, March 20, 2009. Hank Greenberg on CBS re AIG: "greatest company in history". I'm getting better at posting video, etc.here is one I just heard about on NPR- an interview Hank Greenberg. Did with CBS this morning about AIG. The quote that caught my ear was the following: "It was the greatest company in history. In the insurance industry, there wasn't anything like it.". Ex-AIG CEO: Don't Blame Me For Bonuses". Liddy told a congressiona...
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Steady Blogging: Brooks on "The Commercial Republic", citing Walt Whitman
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SteadyBlogging on Twitter (SteadyTweets? Follow me on Twitter. Thursday, March 19, 2009. Brooks on "The Commercial Republic", citing Walt Whitman. Catching up the paper from earlier this week. Once again, I find David Brooks, although a bit smug and high handed, worth posting. His column in Tuesday's paper was on the US as " the commercial republic. Brooks, after a handful of paragraphs of historical context, goes on to say:. We are now in an astonishingly noncommercial moment. Risk is out of favor&#...
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Steady Blogging: Keynes's "Economic Consequences of the Peace" on Scribd
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SteadyBlogging on Twitter (SteadyTweets? Follow me on Twitter. Wednesday, March 25, 2009. Keynes's "Economic Consequences of the Peace" on Scribd. A general bonfire is so great a necessity that unless we can make of it an orderly and good-tempered affair in which no serious injustice is done to anyone, it will, when it comes at last, grow into a conflagration that may destroy much else as well.". John Maynard Keynes, "The Economic Consequences of the Peace" (1920). The Economic Consequences of the Peace.
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Steady Blogging: Morning's Top Stories (Jan 26 '09)
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SteadyBlogging on Twitter (SteadyTweets? Follow me on Twitter. Monday, January 26, 2009. Morning's Top Stories (Jan 26 '09). This is something I may try to make a regular (dare I say daily? Feature: a few links regarding top/interesting news stories. Here's what I see as today's top stories, based on my own interests and media sources:. 160;is a blog post about part of Geithner's 102 (! Reid warned Friday that Republicans "would not be very wise politically" to try to hold up the nomination, which last ...
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Steady Blogging: Video clips: at the market in south Kolkata
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SteadyBlogging on Twitter (SteadyTweets? Follow me on Twitter. Monday, March 16, 2009. Video clips: at the market in south Kolkata. I still haven't uploaded all our photos from our trip to India last month.but I did upload a few of the numerous video clips I took. Here are two of them, both taken on the morning we walked with my aunt to the local market:. 1) The chicken butcher; I snapped a few photos of these guys, after which they wanted to pose for me, which is when I shot this clip:. Video clips: at ...