this is bullshit. I do NOT approve.

Quoted: e "hundreds of billions" of taxpayer money to buy illiquid assets from U.S. financial institutions. The goal: to make them healthy enough to raise new ...

Pretty controversial. Didn't get a chance to read it thoroughly enough to know where I stand.

dense but really good essay by the author of "fooled by randomness". very topical.

Quoted: problems, but risk perception is subjected to framing issues that are acute in the Fourth Quadrant. Dan Goldstein and I are running a program of ...

I read a book of poems by Rumi a few weeks back. In it, there's a story of a man who travels to find a treasure as shown to him in a dream.

Plot similar to the overarching plot of the alchemist.

BTW: read rumi if you get a chance. it's not so much poetry as broken up prose (i find poetry hard to comprehend usually). it's truly beautiful.

Quoted: . In a modern translation the story (told in verse) is titled "In Baghdad, Dreaming of Cairo: In Cairo, Dreaming of Baghdad". (The Essential Rumi, transl. Coleman Barks, New York: HarperCollins, 1995). In it, a poor man in Baghdad who inherits a lot of money and land only to squander it quickly and become poor again has a dream, in which a voice tells him to go to Cairo and dig in a certain spot to find his wealth. When he gets there, while wandering the streets and begging for coins he is picked up by a night patrol. When he tells his story to the patrolman, the latter calls him a fool and tells him of a similar dream (which he had dismissed) about a place in Baghdad, describing the very street and house in which the poor man lives.

This is a scary move, IMO. I don't think the us federal budget can handle a bailout like this, and i think this will devalue US treasury bonds because, in my mind, this increases the risk of the US govt defaulting on bond repayments.

Quoted: Following rallies in Asia and Europe, the Dow jumped more than 340 points at the opening, before falling back.

info on the tabbed profile

going to use this to rank babies for cuteness. bwahahaha.

(http://apps.new.facebook.com/cutestbaby)

saving for later.

Quote: This weekend, Monty and I got together for a different kind of hacking session.

so true. silicon valley is one messed up place

Quoted: But what amazed her most was the way Tom Costello and the Cuil kids spent their $33 million in venture capital. "Lunch is ordered in every single day," she writes. "Huge fridges burst with snacks and drinks. Bowls of strawberries and muffins lie around the rest area.