Archive for April 30th, 2009

I read this in the LA Times today and the first thing I thought was “how do they know?”. “This virus doesn’t have anywhere near the capacity to kill like the 1918 virus,” which claimed an estimated 50 million victims worldwide, said Richard Webby, a leading influenza virologist at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in [...]

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30Apr

Blame the Hedge Funds!

Posted by Jeff as Uncategorized

On every news story this morning about the pending Chrysler bankruptcy, the narrative included “hedge funds would not agree…” as a central theme. Economic populism still carries the day in Washington. What you won’t hear in these mainstream news stories is that Treasury was demanding a huge haircut for debt holders (screw the “hedge funds” [...]


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