by hilzoy From the NYT (via Calculated Risk): "The blogger Tanta, an influential voice on the mortgage collapse, died Sunday morning in Columbus, Ohio. Tanta, who wrote for Calculated Risk, a finance and economics blog, was a pseudonym for Doris Dungey, 47, who until recently had lived in Upper Marlboro, Md. …
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Centrist Like a Fox
http://obsidianwings.blogs.com/obsidian_wings/2008/12/centrist-like-a.htmlby publius To follow up on Hilzoy (and Yglesias), I too was encouraged by the NYT report that Obama’s national security team wants to shift resources away from the bloated military budget to fund other diplomatic initiatives. It’s encouraging not merely for its own sake, but because it reassures skeptics like me that Clinton and Gates will prove good choices. …
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Shifting Resources
http://obsidianwings.blogs.com/obsidian_wings/2008/11/shifting-resour.htmlby hilzoy From the NYT: "When President-elect Barack Obama introduces his national security team on Monday, it will include two veteran cold warriors and a political rival whose records are all more hawkish than that of the new president who will face them in the White House Situation Room. …
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Brown Man Thinking Hard
http://simplifythepositive.blogspot.comTanta
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Philosophy, et cetera
http://www.philosophyetc.netTanta
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The Catalytic Triad
http://thecatalytictriad.blogspot.comTanta
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Waveflux by Philip Barron
http://www.waveflux.netRandomized Obsidian Wings: Tanta Thoughts That Get Stuck in My Head: I say, does anyone want to play a game of Scrabble? Chocolate and Vodka: Asterix yn y Gymraeg Firedoglake: Late Late Nite FDL: BuriedFed Questioning Transphobia:
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Freedom Writing
http://freedom-writing.blogspot.comWorkplace Safety
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Like candlemakers lobbying against light bulbs
http://www.letsgetreadytoramble.com/blog/2008/11/like-candle...For the extreme example, there's always the case where French garment makers successfully lobbied the government to ban printed cotton garments and machine-made buttons because they were too easy to make and threatened their livelihoods (hat tip to Obsidian Wings even though their post quoting this has nothing to do with what I'm talking about): "Two of the most extreme examples of the suppression of innovation in France occurred shortly after the death of Colbert during the lengthy reign of Louis XIV.
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Jon Swift
http://jonswift.blogspot.comWorkplace Safety
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Potpourri for $500
http://p4500.blogspot.comWorkplace Safety
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David Kirkpatrick
http://davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com… is actually a pretty good idea. From the Obsidian Wings link: Mortgages And Bankruptcy by hilzoy A bankruptcy judge in the Washington Post: “Homeowners are the only ones who cannot modify the terms of their secured debts in bankruptcy. Corporate America
