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» Loans And The Credit Crunch
I’m sure that most of you have been following the credit crunch news. Yesterday the Fed once again lowered rates, but not to the expectations of most of Wall Street. The current credit crunch in my opinion will make the 80’s farm savings and loans crisis look innocent. Bail outs of large [...]

»  Tax Cuts: Good For Growth, Tricky To Pull Off
Cutting taxes can stimulate the economy, but there are inevitable trade-offs and often stiff political resistance.

» Down to "The Wire"

I have praised "The Wire" before (here and here) -- I think it's the best thing I've ever seen on TV. Tonight is the series finale. It will probably be impossible to understand what's going on if you are new to the show, but there's always DVD.

"The Wire" isn't a law show per se -- although the show does touch on legal institutions -- but its creator and some of its writers have taken a unique legal position (known as jury nullification) in this article in Time magazine:

If asked to serve on a jury deliberating a violation of state or federal drug laws, we will vote to acquit, regardless of the evidence presented. Save for a prosecution in which acts of violence or intended violence are alleged, we will — to borrow Justice Harry Blackmun's manifesto against the death penalty — no longer tinker with the machinery of the drug war. No longer can we collaborate with a government that uses nonviolent drug offenses to fill prisons with its poorest, most damaged and most desperate citizens.

» Dimon trying to keep Bear directors on board

» Podcast delays

I really am working to get a podcast up and running by early next week. Unfortunately, as I recover from bronchitis, I notice that my tones are far from dulcet -- I'm more Les Nessman than Dr. Johnny Fever or Venus Flytrap.

I do, however, want to make sure that the technology works. So here is a Bach minuet:


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