Sexy objects stimulate our brain Roland Piquepaille
Home-Mortgage Rate Hits 5.14% Wall Street Journal
Barack Be Good Paul Krugman, New York Times
“Stuff Happens”: the Bush Administration’s Economic Stewardship Menzie Chinn, Econbrowser
A Satire-Free Day? No Thanks… Cassandra
Air-Pocket Watch: November Hotel Occupancy Paul Kedrosky
Antidote du jour (hat tip reader Don):







Krugman’s piece is interesting in the context of his top team comes from the very part of Congress that has presided over the trainwreck. Blaming Bush is a copout. Let us not forget that Obama and his top team sat in the very Senate that passed these appropriation bills. To say the good team of Senators qualify as goo goo is sheer deklusion.
A look at the vintage Fallows piece looks quite prescient (the Atlantic) http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200507/fallows/