Tab Dump
• An interesting interview with the president of the New York Federal Reserve.
• Bank lobbyists: Still more powerful than you are.
• Gordon Brown's no good, very bad year.
• Half as many Harvard grads going into finance. (But what are the remaining half thinking!?)
• An infallible formula for better breakfasts.
• Michael Pollan or Michael Foucault? Arguably the greatest web site of our time.
If I made these weekend tab dumps into an open thread, would any of you use it? Surely you have links to share!
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June 5, 2009; 6:51 PM ET
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Posted by: SteveCA1 | June 5, 2009 7:01 PM | Report abuse
Those Harvard grads going into finance are probably doing so because they've made a judgment on the likelihood of major structural changes to the way Wall Street compensation works(which is looking about as likely as Satan opening a ski resort). They're probably thinking, and they're probably right, that five years from now things will be largely back to business as normal.
Posted by: newbusinessmodel | June 5, 2009 7:35 PM | Report abuse
The real story in that Harvard article is that they are not getting laid.
- Yale '03
Posted by: CarlosXL | June 5, 2009 7:53 PM | Report abuse
I would definitely use it as an open thread, or at least a link sharing thread.
My contribution: Simon Johnson on Latvia
http://baselinescenario.com/2009/06/05/latvia-should-you-care/
PS. Ezra, is there any change we can get some basic HTML for the comments? That raw link is so aesthetically unpleasing.
Posted by: njbunk | June 5, 2009 7:53 PM | Report abuse
I'd likely add links to an open thread. I promise that not all of them would be to myself.
Posted by: TheIncidentalEconomist | June 5, 2009 10:34 PM | Report abuse
*cough* Michel Foucault not Michael, Michel *cough*
Otherwise, thanks for that website. But I didn't know that mainstream progressive were allowed to like the poststructuralist left? I thought anti-theory was a rule you all had to follow.
Regardless, love this website. Especially because I just wrote a paper on disciplinary power in factory farms.
Posted by: thescuspeaks | June 5, 2009 10:48 PM | Report abuse
Mankiw's post on the public plan idea.
http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2009/06/whats-point-of-public-option.html
Posted by: staticvars | June 6, 2009 11:40 PM | Report abuse
This one is quite good as well, Cowen on egalitarian health care.
http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2009/06/why-us-policy-is-especially-egalitarian-.html
Posted by: staticvars | June 6, 2009 11:41 PM | Report abuse
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Draft of the HELP bill: http://briefingroom.thehill.com/2009/06/05/download-the-kennedy-healthcare-bill-here/