Great article by Micheal Lewis on the financial disaster that is Greece.

So damn good.

“We’re in a place we haven’t been since the Depression: Our economy is so completely fucked, the rich are running out of things to steal.”

I always find it a bit rich at Western powers want the developing world to be all "free market" while they themselves are protectionist as fuck. Fucking World Bank.

Customers hate baggage fees, and airlines that charge them are losing more money than those that don't.

Cringly on IBM, American Health Care, off-shoring, and a host of other issues.

"Seven months after Ottawa’s $4 billion pledge, red tape stymies regions’ ability to access the cash."

I read this on the way to work today. A very interesting article on how we measure the state of our economies in very foolish ways.

You gotta love the \"free\" market.

\"Clinton just introduced a bill that would link Congressional pay increases to increases in the federal minimum wage. It would require that the federal minimum wage be increased by the same percentage amount as Congressional salaries every year.\"

Has anyone read <a href=\"http://www.economichitman.com/\">Confessions of an Economic Hitman</a>? It comes up like 3 times in the thread.

The Economist looks at the failures of oil-rich Arab states.

These <a href=\"http://www.fguide.org/atrocity.htm\">Econ-Atrocity</a> articles are pretty interesting.

Learn all about the evils of unions, minimum wages, taxes, and other such things. I think the economics in the title belong in scare quotes, though I am no economists.

\"What we need now—as even President Bush, hardly a conservationist, has said—is for people to drive less, not more.\"

A response to <a href=\"http://www.paulgraham.com/inequality.html\">an essay by Paul Graham</a>. Graham\'s essay is one of those \"don\'t tax the rich or your economy will turn to shit\" essays that right wing policy makers cite as the reason they need t

China plans to stop pegging the Yuan against the US dollar.

I was bored and at Indio, so I am the proud owner of this book; I\'ve heard good things about it.

Links to several papers on criticisms of Capitalism among other things.

\"From 1990 to 2002, for every extra dollar earned by those in the bottom 90 percent, each taxpayer at the top brought in an extra $18,000.\"

\"Never, ever, ever buy bonds at retail from a full-service broker. Especially municipal bonds.\"

Funny article on the Tech-Bubble.

I\'m waiting for the IMF and the World Bank to step in and start imposing all sorts of silly economics on the United States. Oh how I would <em>love</em> to see that.

Martin is spending like a socialist -- re-speck.

More on pricing from Joel at Joel on Software.

\"There is cheating going on, at a 99 percent level of confidence.\"

Clay Shirky examines flame wars in detail; a very interesting article.