Regulation and the financial crisis

2009-09-09 Thread John Williams
http://www.american.com/archive/2009/september/regulation-and-the-financial-crisis-myths-and-realities | Myth 1: Banking regulators were in the dark as new financial | instruments reshaped the financial industry. | Myth 2: Deregulation allowed the market to adopt risky practices, such | as using

Re: Predictions and Re: Smaller Government-Is it possible or a pipe dream?

2009-09-09 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 03:17 PM Tuesday 9/8/2009, Chris Frandsen wrote: Your comment on not having much evidence to evaluate the reliability of my predictions is correct, to the best of my knowledge. Which is the most unlikely beginning condition, that we get serious or that we can decide what to do? When you

Weekly Chat Reminder

2009-09-09 Thread William T Goodall
The Brin-L weekly chat has been a list tradition for over ten years. Way back on 27 May, 1998, Marco Maisenhelder first set up a chatroom for the list, and on the next day, he established a weekly chat time. We've been through several servers, chat technologies, and even casts of regulars over

Re: Predictions and Re: Smaller Government-Is it possible or a pipe dream?

2009-09-09 Thread Chris Frandsen
On Sep 9, 2009, at 4:56 AM, Ronn! Blankenship wrote: Perhaps he was thinking of one where one or both of those items is comparable per capita, with the amount of dollars spent perhaps also adjusted for inflation? Or maybe the amount of dollars spent, iow, taken in in taxes, as a fraction

Re: Predictions and Re: Smaller Government-Is it possible or a pipe dream?

2009-09-09 Thread John Williams
On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 12:40 PM, Chris Frandsenlear...@mac.com wrote: Yes! I believe that the clarification of the possible meanings of the word sized which you have provided are/ could be indeed perhaps what the gentleman was suggesting. I would not be surprised however if he took offense at

The thread about the thread Re: DeLong on health insurance reform

2009-09-09 Thread Jo Anne
David wrote: Hi. There I was, doing my bit to produce list traffic. Sorry... No apologies needed. I just remember so well person after person taking on JDG trying to talk about different stuff (abortion, death penalty, politics). While I think Dan talked the longest and the hardest, I came