Probability Distribution

Jan 6

NYT Lens column

“To find new things, take the path you took yesterday.” John Burroughs

Jan 4

“92 percent of the top managers and directors at the top 17 companies that received TARP funds are still in their same positions” http://bit.ly/6fyFr7

Jan 3

William Eggleston: 21st Century

A living American master: 7 Jan - 13 Feb

Cheim & Reid, 547 West 25th Street, Tu - St, 10 - 6

Jan 2

zero decade

“There has been zero net job creation since December 1999 … Middle-income households made less in 2008, when adjusted for inflation, than they did in 1999.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/01/AR2010010101196.html?hpid=topnews

Jan 1

Investors could only lose in Goldman's Caymans deals

Goldman plays Merrill and every US taxpayer for a greater fool.

Dec 31

“My brother Tom once characterized the academic life this way: “Read, read, read. Talk, talk, talk. Write, write, write.” He is not an academic but he got it right.”

A.S. Blum, Domestic Economies: Family, Work, and Welfare in Mexico City, 1884-1943,

http://bit.ly/6qVu7g

Dec 30

“A national health insurance exchange … has the potential to fundamentally change the accessibility and affordability of insurance.” http://bit.ly/8iVIbO

Dec 29

“The truth is that we could do just fine without them: an insurance system with community rating and universal access has no need of private insurers.” J. Surowiecki, TNY, http://www.newyorker.com/talk/financial/2010/01/04/100104ta_talk_surowiecki

Dec 28

Dismount needs some work.

Dec 27

“The Pink Pussycat was also a leader in the field of distance learning. For $4.95 plus postage, nonmatriculated students could order a home-instruction kit complete with two bosom bonnets, one G-string, a rhinestone for the navel and a copy of the curriculum.” http://bit.ly/4TI9f1