Nathaniel Ward » Finance http://www.nathanielward.net Mon, 22 Aug 2011 12:14:33 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 What I’m Reading — January 12th http://www.nathanielward.net/2010/01/what-im-reading-january-12th/ http://www.nathanielward.net/2010/01/what-im-reading-january-12th/#comments Tue, 12 Jan 2010 14:12:54 +0000 Nathaniel Ward http://www.nathanielward.net/?p=577
  • Did Deregulation Really Cause the Crash? Russ Roberts: “If you lift the speed limit from 65 miles per hour to 200 miles per hour and someone crashes going 195, it would be strange to blame the crash on the change in the speed limit. The question remains as to why someone would be so reckless.”
  • Teaching Business School Students to Think Creatively.
  • The Right Way and the Wrong Way to Simplify Taxes. “For the Obama Administration, the new regulation is a way to try to increase tax revenues without Congress having to pass a law…Here’s a better idea: If Washington doesn’t like taxpayers working the system of legal deductions to reduce their tax burden, it can always simplify the code and flatten the rates.”
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  • Unintended Consequences of Credit Card ‘Reform.’ “‘We basically socialized the bearing of the risk,’ said Ken Clayton, managing director of card policy for the American Bankers Association, a trade group. ‘That’s why good customers sometimes have to bear the cost of the risk that others pose.’”
  • Ponnuru on Repositioning Conservatism. “The [GOP] problem has instead been that voters have not thought Republicans of any stripe had answers to their most pressing concerns. Addressing those concerns, rather than repositioning itself along the ideological spectrum, is the party’s main challenge.”
  • Big Ben on Twitter
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  • Fixing ‘Too Big to Fail.’ “During the crisis it was often said that officials at the Federal Reserve and Treasury would do ‘whatever it takes’ to avoid a Great Depression. Now they must do whatever it takes to address one of the key causes of the financial crisis: the existence of financial institutions that consider themselves too big to fail – but which are run in such a way that they are bound to do so.”
  • Why the Left Won’t Really Tackle Inequality.
  • Crowds Are Really Individuals. “What really happens in crowdsourcing as it is practiced in wide variety of contexts, from Wikipedia to open source to scientific research, is that a problem is broadcast to a large number of people with varying forms of expertise. Then individuals motivated by obsession, competition, money or all three apply their individual talent to creating a solution.”
  • John Thune: Time for a TARP Exit Strategy. “It is time to bring an end to the TARP emergency measures and come up with an exit strategy to get government out of the business of running businesses. The administration owes the American people a timeline for how it will do this.”
  • Nile Gariner on the Great Irish Surrender. “The Irish ratification of the Treaty of Lisbon will pave the way for the biggest erosion of national sovereignty in Europe since the Second World War.”
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  • “These Fans Are Special.”
  • The Public Option Isn’t the Only Problem.
  • Getting Out of TARP. The government is “allowing” firms to repay their debts. How generous.
  • Charitable Giving Declines. The New York Times report suggests a decrease in big gifts is the main reason for the decline.
  • How Different Are America and Europe? “No one is arguing that America is Sweden. But nor is Britain, Italy, or even France. And since when does Sweden represent ‘Europe’—at least anymore than the ethnically homogenous, socially liberal state of Vermont does America?”
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  • Why trains run slower now than they did in the 1920s.
    Lower demand, more freight and more government regulation conspire to reduce train speeds.
  • An interview with the old RNC webmaster
    “What I discovered is technological development cycles will always overlap with campaign cycles, and that’s not conducive to having efficient technology, because when you’re in campaign mode you’re not going to want to deal with alpha or beta products or sit through the development of something that hasn’t been tested.”
  • Redskins win new legal fight with Indian group
    Is “the appropriateness of Native American imagery for team names” really a legal question? Perhaps the name and logo are insensitive, but there’s certainly no “right not to be offended.”
  • Obama administration plans a new regulator for consumer finance.
    This is certainly ripe for all kinds of overreach, and could easily backfire.
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