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...Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. The Fed had a mere three borrowing programs before the crisis started in the summer of 2007, when two Bear Stearns hedge funds failed. At the height of the bailout, there were no fewer than 13 programs. The New York Fed had to post them on its website sideways, using teensy-weensy type, so they would print out on a single sheet of paper...
...contemporary, post-Industrial society - say, the U.S. An economy based on brains and connections? That sounds about right. It's been half a century since economists first lasered in on the importance of "human capital" - the notion that what is locked up in people's heads and how they relate to other people deserves just as much attention as a company's physical assets (its factories, trucks and land). With each new phase of our information society, it becomes truer that the way to get a leg up isn't to own a factory (they're all going overseas...
...blog posted a "Response to an anti-TLR Crimson editorial," in which Keliher wrote, "If I had to distill [Kovali's] piece, it would run: 'I interviewed the co-president of a group I disagree with, I misconstrued her statements, and thereby showed the whole group is irrational.'" The conversation didn't stop there. The blog post generated a couple of comments, including one by Kovali and another by Keliher...
Keliher then used the gist of his comment on his own blog post as a letter to the Crimson today. Which elicited a comment from Wagley which was essentially a re-post of Keliher's original blog post. Things getting meta...
...then earlier this week, infamous ex-sex blogger Lena Chen '09-'10 wrote an editorial in the Crimson entitled "The Abstinence Mystique." The title says it all. But the TLR people seemed to have taken Chen's message with a better attitude, claiming in yet another blog post that the piece was "more civil than last week’s Crimson fail." But in a comment to her own article, Chen says that Wagley's blog post "fails to address the contradictions I bring up about TLR's interpretation of feminism." More of her thoughts, Chen says...