Recycled Electron

Banks Bundled Bad Debt, Bet Against It and Won

Reason Editor suggests his own magazine is lying

Everyone's Defaulting, Why Don't You?

If billionaires don't feel guilty about walking away from their debts, should homeowners?

Paul Volcker: Think More Boldly

The former Fed chairman says the conference proposals don't go nearly far enough to accomplish what needs to be accomplished

“Wake Up, Gentlemen”

Finance: Before the Next Meltdown

by Simon Johnson and James Kwak

Gerry Corrigan’s Case For Large Integrated Financial Groups

Measuring The Fiscal Costs Of Not Fixing The Financial System

Mobile Buyers' Guide, December 2009

http://www.anandtech.com/printarticle.aspx?i=3685  [print / all on one page]

"It's unfair"

Howard Dean on why he doesn't support the Senate bill, which he calls "hocus pocus" reform 

How do I know China wrecked the Copenhagen deal? I was in the room

As recriminations fly post-Copenhagen, one writer offers a fly-on-the-wall account of how talks failed

Michele Bachmann: Welfare Queen

Tiger Woods, Person of the Year 

(Hat tip to Tim O'Reilly: http://twitter.com/timoreilly/status/6871423594)

[The Tiger Woods scandal as premise for critique of the year's, decade's emphasis of image over substance.]

That Tap Water Is Legal but May Be Unhealthy 

Predator drones use less encryption than your TV, DVDs

Insurgents Hack U.S. Drones

$26 Software Is Used to Breach Key Weapons in Iraq; Iranian Backing Suspected

Alice's adventures in algebra: Wonderland solved 

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Swaps Nightmares Become Real for Amateur Financiers

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No more financial innovation. Ever

Pennsylvania's auditor general advocates a ban on Wall Street wizardry "yet to be invented" 

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A deficit of responsibility

Who is responsible for the projected future deficits? 

White House as helpless victim on healthcare

Health-care bill wouldn't bring real reform

Hacked Wiimote Makes Super Scientific Sensor

A prescription for snooping

Drug companies defend the practice of mining data from pharmacies and insurers, but others are alarmed.

Human Trafficking in America [Extensive series]

The Kansas City Star

In Exxon Deal, Signs of the New Gusher

Under Murdoch, Tilting Rightward at The Journal 

Rating the best anti-malware solutions

AV-Comparatives' December 2009 report has been released and there are eight winners. The other eight products didn't do so well.

Hundreds of billions in crime money knowingly laundered by banks during credit crunch

Drug money saved banks in global crisis, claims UN advisor

What are the long-term consequences ...?

Taxing the rich is causing exodus

Damning New Evidence Raises Concerns About Threats to New York's Water From Gas Drilling

There is much more to it than just this story and isolated incidents.  New York City's drinking water depends upon a very extensive drainage basin that runs far upstate and includes areas over the Marcellus Shale formation.  Extensive exploration threatens the water supply of the entire city and environs; how many million people is that?

[Kansas City Star] US System to Find, Help Victims of Human Trafficking Is Broken

US Kids Represent Psychiatric Drug Goldmine

Moral hazards for Democrats

It's bad business for Obama's party to reward him for rewarding Wall Street shills 

Editorial

Twitter Tapping

Scepticism's limits [The Economist on the claims of a climate change skeptic]

Why is Barney Frank So Effing Mad?

The powerful Chairman of the House Financial Services Committee is doing his best to rein in Wall Street. You got a problem with that?

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The Food System and Public Policy

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I live in a van down by Duke University

How do I afford grad school without going into debt? A '94 Econoline, bulk food and creative civil disobedience 

And his personal blog:

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Op-Ed Contributor

Cap and Fade

By JAMES HANSEN

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New Study Reveals Most Children Unrepentant Sociopaths