Category Archives: Econ & Money

Video backing Robin Hood tax on banks from a country that still has occasional progressive twitches before elections.

Via Blenderlaw (what? you don't read Blenderlaw.com???)

When is a freeze not a freeze?

When it's unpopular.

(Earlier item: Bletch)

This is amazingly dumb: Obama Seeks Freeze on Many Domestic Programs

Not surprisingly the blogs are all over it.

• Open Left, One Word: Grotesque
• DeLong, Barack Herbert Hoover Obama?
• DKos, Unimaginable stupidity & Obama Embraces Hooverism
• DeLong This Is Such a Disaster in the Making…
• Kevin Drum, Pivot Watch

Please tell me that this isn't the first dividend of the Citizens United ruling.

• Update: Open Left again, It's Official: Obama is an idiot

Apparently, if the law school just set every computer in the building to default to using Garamond as its type face, we'd save a ton of money on toner.

I've always thought Garamond was a pretty good-looking font, too. Not saying it's the best ever, not trying to start a font flame war, but nice.

Jonathan Simon writes that California's protesters should Strike Against Prisons not Education.

(Note: Jon wrote this before the latest round of protests.)

I wish I had time to read How The Federal Reserve Bailed Out The World and decide if it makes sense.

But there's lots cooking this week, so for now I don't.

Maybe I need a “read later” category for the blog?