Posted: 07 Oct 2011 09:34 PM PDT

Worth a watch, even if the interviewer overdoes the dumb blonde thing: [-]

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Bruce Bartlett Goes Rogue

Posted: 07 Oct 2011 06:06 PM PDT

This is surprisingly lucid TV from Bruce Bartlett, former Reagan/Bush official. When did he go rogue?

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The 1930s, and Worse

Posted: 07 Oct 2011 11:28 AM PDT

Good msing from Paul Mason of BBC on how we make things worse from here:

So then, in the absence of decisive policy action, you get a sequence that goes: crash (2008); stimulus (2009); failure of stimulus (2011); second crash (2011/12); deflation; involuntary collapse of globalisation. In that situation, which I profoundly hope does not happen, every government becomes like the Brüning administration in Germany after 1931, still trying to make the old policy work in the new world, increasingly resorting to decree.

via BBC News – Thinking outside the 1930s box.

Twitter Digest: 2011-10-06

Posted: 07 Oct 2011 04:00 AM PDT

Peter Thiel: The end of the future – http://t.co/8ld52n7w /cc @GregorMacdonald @timoreilly ->
Backstory on that birthday video clip – http://t.co/ovHWBKpl ->
Only 300 views? Remarkable video: To Steven Jobs on His Thirtieth Birthday – http://t.co/9qUxte8D ->
Heartbreaking: Jobs authorized biography so his kids can know him – http://t.co/qkWURTFL ->
Such fun … Prevalence of Deception in Humans: Evidence from Diving Behaviour in Soccer Players – http://t.co/bU9pvoln ->
My friend @jaltucher in inimitable form: If You're a Billionaire You Probably Have One of these Six Diseases – http://t.co/LkL6Nu18 ->