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Monday, August 09, 2010
 
Morning and Stuff



Sunday, August 08, 2010
 
YOUR media, not theirs

Tonight, Watertiger and Avedon Carol on Virtually Speaking Sundays beginning at 5:00 PM Pacific, also known as 8:00 PM Eastern, or, as we call it around here in London, one o'clock in the morning.

Signed,
Not Atrios

 
SUPERTRAINS

Nothing really objectionable in this article, but I do think the focus on high speed trains hides the fact that while high speed rail would be great, "fast enough rail" would also be really great and that most places don't have anything resembling that. 186 MPH top speed trains are awesome, and 105 MPH or even 90 MPH average speed trains would, in many places, be pretty damn awesome too. Obviously given my policy biases I'm not going to complain if we spend some money on truly super SUPERTRAINS, but if I ran the world I'd spend the equivalent money on fast enough inter-city trains in more places and on improving intra-city transit.

 
More Thread

Travel Day.

 
Lunch Thread

enjoy

 
Now I Know We Need More Stimulus

Because the Very Serious People think we don't.
The U.S. economy will improve slowly and another round of fiscal stimulus likely wouldn’t be effective, former Treasury secretaries Paul O’Neill and Robert Rubin said.

Rubin, who served under Democratic President Bill Clinton, said the U.S. is “going to have slow and bumpy growth,â€? in a taped interview on CNN’s “Fareed Zakaria GPSâ€? scheduled to air today. A “major second stimulusâ€? might create uncertainty and undermine confidence, he said.

Can someone get me some of the Very Serious Person crack rock so I can understand the very sophisticated economic model such that all that matters is "confidence" and that confidence could be undermined by fiscal stimulus?

Businesses don't need customers, just a pep talk. Or, wait, naybe they do need customers?


Companies are concerned about demand and won’t expand facilities and hire new employees until sales have improved, said O’Neill, who was Treasury secretary under Republican President George W. Bush.

Oh, wait, demand is a problem. So the solution is to...do nothing to help demand.

Got it.

 
Sunday Bobbleheads

This Week has some generals.

Meet the Press has Carol Browner, Boehner, Pence, and Harold Ford. Who?

Face the Nation has Thad Allen and a highly relevant bigot named Tony Perkins.

What year is it?

Document the atrocities!

 
Morning Thread



Saturday, August 07, 2010
 
Overnight

enjoy

 
Warren


 
Shorter Edmund Phelps

Except for the lack of business investment and consumer spending, we have no demand shortage whatsoever.

 
Afternoon Thread

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Eated

Light meal for the FDIC this week. Only one.

 
Antiwanker of the Day

Fareed Zakaria.

 
Wankers of the Day

The ADL.

 
"Stop"

Too early to think, have some Kooper & Bloomfield.

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Not Atrios


Friday, August 06, 2010
 
Friday Night

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Recovery Summer

While apparently it was the Times, and not Geithner, which wrote the title "Welcome to the Reovery," we had this...
WASHINGTON, DC – The Administration today kicks off “Recovery Summer,â€? a six-week-long focus on the surge in Recovery Act infrastructure projects that will be underway across the country in the coming months – and the jobs they’ll create well into the fall and through the end of the year.






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