Friday, October 28, 2011

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  • TimesPeople recommended a blog post:
    Oct 27, 2011
    Destroying Houses to Save Cities - Room for Debate
    Are banks helping or hurting a community by bulldozing foreclosed property?   It is palliative care only.  Eventually the patient dies.
  • TimesPeople recommended a blog post:
    Oct 27, 2011
    Destroying Houses to Save Cities - Room for Debate
    Are banks helping or hurting a community by bulldozing foreclosed property?
    It is palliative care only.  Eventually the patient dies.
  • TimesPeople recommended a blog post:
    Oct 27, 2011
    A Vision Beyond Rebuilding - Room for Debate
    Demolishing vacant foreclosed properties is a good first step, but it must be part of a larger strategy.
    It is palliative care only.  Eventually the patient dies.
  • TimesPeople recommended a user:
    Oct 27, 2011
    John M. Mezoff
  • TimesPeople recommended a blog post:
    Oct 27, 2011
    Seizing an Opportunity to Revitalize Cities - Room for Debate
    If we care about repositioning cites, then we need to ask: When will city erasure end and city visioning begin?
    When there is a reason, any reason that will support the new city.
  • TimesPeople recommended a user:
    Oct 27, 2011
    Junius Gunaratne
    • Tim Carmody recommended an article:
      Mar 15, 2011
      For Older Japanese, Tsunami’s Carnage Evokes WWII Horrors
      Along the northeastern coast of Japan, the elderly who couldn’t outrun the wave made up the largest portion of its victims.
      I am not shocked by measures taken in panic.
      "Fear is the mind killer.  It is the small death that precedes extinction."   Frank Herbert
  • TimesPeople recommended a user:
    Oct 27, 2011
    Lee
  • TimesPeople recommended a user:
    Oct 27, 2011
    Don Stubbs
    • Sasha commented on an article:
      Jan 4, 2010
      How Visa, Using Card Fees, Dominates a Market
      A simple, free market solution to credit card fee gouging would be to allow merchants to charge lower prices if a customer pays in cash. That way a CUSTOMER can make the choice about whether they want to pay for for the convenience of credit or debit cards. Visa and Mastercard's refusal to allow merchants to set lower prices for cash payments is tantamount to price fixing.
      They are not setting prices.  They are pushing prices up for all their customers.
  • TimesPeople recommended a user:
    Oct 27, 2011
    Will
    • Henry recommended a blog post:
      Mar 7, 2011
      Does IMF Stand for Impressive Macroeconomic Flexibility?
      So the IMF is holding a meeting on rethinking macroeconomic policy (I was invited but couldn’t make the timing work.) And the Fund’s chief economist has already made it clear that he’s open to some serious revision of the prevailing paradigm.
      We have had a bump.  
      I think it is a bear market rally.
      http://www.econbrowser.com/archives/2011/10/could_be_worse.html
      http://www.econbrowser.com/archives/2011/10/imf_book_forum_1.html
      http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/debt-crisis
      http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/oct/27/eurozone-crisis-bailout-deal
      "
      • guardian.co.uk,
      • Article history
      • Under the principle of Occam's razor, every assumption is shaved away until – in Russell's phrase – as much as possible is explained by known entities, and reliance on unknown entities is reduced to the minimum. In fashioning a response to the woes of its currency, Europe has taken the opposite tack. The continent's leaders emerged bleary-eyed into yesterday's grey Brussels dawn not with straightforward orders to institutions which actually exist, but with baffling plans to magic money out of somewhere. It is to be very much hoped that their fiendishly complex plan can be delivered, since the alternative is certain depression. Despite an excited reaction on the markets yesterday, however, the obstacles to success are legion." http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-15488542 "While European banks are swallowing the news that they must write off 50% of their Greek debts, Greeks themselves have given the news a mixed reaction. Many people are still suffering from enforced austerity, while others say they still do not believe the country will be able to repay the remaining debt." Good news, bad news.

  • TimesPeople recommended a video:
    Oct 27, 2011
    Bill Cunningham | Natty
    I like the look.
    That does not make it good or new.

I intend to spend tomorrow afternoon sailing.  I should be back about 9:00 pm.

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