Linkpost: 10/06/08
- Truth, lies and ticker tape (Spengler, Asia Times)
- The resilient dollar (Economist) Our economy may be a basket case at the moment, but the world's innovations still come from here (for now), and investors know it.
- Hockey moms and capital markets (Spengler, Asia Times) See above.
- With a Wink and a Smile (Mark Steyn, NRO)
- Jim Cramer: Time to get out of stocks (MSNBC.com) When Cramer says there's no way to make money in stocks at the moment*, I tend to believe. The headline is misleading though, and doesn't completely match the article.
- Not Everyone Should Own a Home (Janet Albrechtsen, WSJ) In the quest to make housing affordable, we (okay, not me, and probably not you, but pols) created additional demand (and a bubble) that drove prices up and made buyers of two types of people who shouldn't own homes: 1) Extremely bad credit risks who never would qualify for home loans in a more regulated (edit: or at least less distorted) market and 2) Speculators of all sorts who realized the easy credit terms were too good to pass up in a bull housing market of seemingly endless returns. Oh so complicated. I wouldn't want a pol to try to discuss it, because complex sentences are hard.
- Democrats Were Wrong on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (Michael Barone, US News) Yes, but if McCain can't or won't make the case, he deserves to lose. Eight years of a President who cannot communicate is enough.
- Do facts matter? (Thomas Sowell, RCP) See above.
- Is It 1929 Again? (Robert Samuelson, WaPo)
- The Credit Card Congress (WSJ)
- America and the New Financial World (Zachary Karabell, WSJ)
- Weathermen: Home-grown US radicals (Joe Boyle, BBC News)
- NYT's Ayers-Obama whitewash (Stanley Kurtz, NRO) What else would one expect?
- Who Killed Real ID? (David Weigel, Reason)
- Seeing race and seeming racist? Whites go out of their way to avoid talking about race (APA)
- Behind the Bluster, Russia Is Collapsing (Murray Feshbach, WaPo)
- Brazil's Lula takes center stage in Latin America (Chris Kraul & Patrick McDonnell, LA Times)
- Ecuador votes to lock in its shift to the left (Sibylla Brodzinsky, CSM)
- Brazil local vote to have national impact (Gary Duffy, BBC News)
- Bad tidings in Iraqi Kurdistan (Mohammed Salih, Asia Times)
- Pakistan, US await militant showdown (Syed Saleem Shahzad, Asia Times)
- The view from Damascus (Ayman Abdel Nour, Forbes)
- For U.S. and Sunni Allies, a Turning Point (Ernesto Londono, WaPo)
- Free Super-Crunching Software (Ian Ayres, Freakonomics)
- HC County Judge: Emmett v. Mincberg (Lose an Eye, It's a Sport)
- State House candidate Greg Meyers calls for investigation into Rep. Hubert Vo (Crystal Hubbard, Texas Watchdog)
- American Airlines considers a la carte pricing (David Koenig, AP) Unfortunately, what a la carte pricing probably means to this carrier is, "We'll keep our current fares as they are, call that the base, AND start charging for 'extras' like seat assignments, bags, drinks, maybe even non-middle seats."
- Saviors of the prairies (Denver Nicks, Tulsa World) The links lead to some cool photos of the Tallgrass Prairie in Osage County (OK).
- Creative Losing (Lose an Eye, it's a Sport)
- Texans fumble away first victory in colossal collapse (John McClain, Houston Chronicle)
- Justice: Blame, losses start to mount for Texans (Richard Justice, Houston Chronicle)
- Dolphins too fat to do tricks put on diet (Urmee Khan, Telegraph) Give the dolphins fewer nachos!
* Italicized for the reading-challenged, as a cue to read carefully.
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