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To Arctic Animals, Time of Day Really Doesn’t Matter Science Daily (hat tip reader John M) Psychopaths’ brains wired to seek rewards, no matter the consequences PhysOrg. So that means the only answer is to put them…Read

By Rob Parenteau, CFA, sole proprietor of MacroStrategy Edge, editor of The Richebacher Letter, and a research associate of The Levy Economics Institute This 2009 analysis by UBS, presented in FT Alphaville, debunks a central…Read

Relations between the US and China have been deteriorating. Although both sides have poked each other in various ways (Obama meeting with the Dalai Lama, China dissing Obama in Copenhagen by standing him up for a meeting, some…Read

By Washington.  Note: I can’t get the videos to embed. Please click here to see videos. This is an open letter to the economics, finance and banking communities. I don’t have any dog in the fight, other than to…Read

By Frank Partnoy, Professor of Law and Finance University of San Diego School of Law and author of Fiasco, Infectious Greed, and The Match King The buzz on the Lehman bankruptcy examiner’s report has focused on Repo 105, for…Read

Apologies for thin posts, but the time change (did you reset your clocks?) and the book chat (see preceding post, we went nearly three hours) cut into my blogging time in a major way. In pictures: Bear power BBC The greatest…Read

I chatted at the Book Salon on FireDogLake on Saturday (yes I screwed up completely in not notifying Naked Capitalism readers). The conversation was hosted by masaccio and led to a wide ranging discussion. The chat started with…Read

A Game of Tag Breaks Out Between London’s Graffiti Elite Wall Street Journal (hat tip reader Lance) Climate linked to smaller birds BBC The Dollar, the Deficit, and Accounting Identities Dean Baker Fragile riches Rolfe…Read

Indefensible Men

From the December 2009 issue of The Baffler (no online version of this article available). For those not familiar with The Baffler, this is the revival of a magazine of business and culture edited by Thomas Frank that had…Read

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By Washington. As I wrote last August: Commonly-accepted wisdom says that we can inflate our way out of our debt crisis. *** But as I have previously noted, UBS economist Paul Donovan has demonstrated that governments…Read

Giant meat-eating plants prefer to eat tree shrew poo BBC Your Chilean Sea Bass Dinner Deprives Killer Whales Wired Mutated genetic supertrout developed in lab The Register (hat tip reader John M) The Price of Admission…Read

A very talented movie/commerical/trailer editor, who for some bizarre reason insists on going nameless (but if you want his coordinates, don’t hesitate to ping me) assisted by Ben Fisher in a major role (finding images and…Read

By Tim Duncan, Chairman of American Business Leaders for Financial Reform Financial regulatory reform was starting to feel a lot like a political version of the movie Groundhog Day. Like Bill Murray’s character in the movie…Read