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  1. ASPLP meeting on "Getting to the Rule of Law", Jan 6, New Orleans: http://tinyurl.com/yfds5c8 . E-mail theasplp@gmail.com for more info 9:40 AM Dec 17th from web
  2. rt @willwilkinson blogged: The Right-Wing Politics of Ressentiment: This glorious Julian Sanchez rant merits your att.. http://bit.ly/90VMg6 2:39 PM Dec 16th from web
  3. Comments on the Cobell settlement: http://tinyurl.com/yzxrodf 7:40 AM Dec 9th from web
  4. @smsaideman Gotta do something while it brews and the dogs eat breakfast. 6:50 AM Dec 9th from web
  5. @smsaideman ah, but a blogpost lives forever in google. Tentative pre-coffee thoughts are better put here 6:16 AM Dec 9th from web
  6. FEC (FDIC etc) governs trading etc wherever it happens, but post-crisis seems like some regs are going to be targeted at institutional form 5:16 AM Dec 9th from web
  7. I presume that at least some important finance functions could be shifted around similarly w/o making non-finance firms into "banks" 5:12 AM Dec 9th from web
  8. If Biglaw were subject to special taxes and compensation rules, I'd expect to see rapid growth in corporate in-house counsel offices 5:10 AM Dec 9th from web
  9. If financial firms are targeted as such for a while (http://tinyurl.com/yfsen5c) will their functions get absorbed by other firms? 5:09 AM Dec 9th from web
  10. I wrote about the #cobell litigation for my very first piece at TNR. Lost to the TNR archives, but a copy is at http://tinyurl.com/y8dzx7j 6:22 PM Dec 8th from web
  11. But it's one of the smartest expenditures imaginable in #Indian Country, and helps to clean up a mess fed gov created 110 years ago. 6:01 PM Dec 8th from web
  12. That additional $2 bn doesn't at all contribute to making whole the IIM account-holders, the plaintiffs in #cobell . 6:00 PM Dec 8th from web
  13. But that corrects a different past government mistake from the one at issue in #cobell-- related, but not the same. 5:59 PM Dec 8th from web
  14. $2 bn is being allocated for a good cause-- to clean up the fractionated property holdings that plague Indian country ( #cobell) 5:58 PM Dec 8th from web
  15. of accounts and accounting-- but plausibly closer to $10 bn 5:57 PM Dec 8th from web
  16. #cobell settlement with plaintiffs is at the very low end of what's conscionable. Losses impossible to calculate due to gov't mishandling 5:57 PM Dec 8th from web
  17. #cobell settlement with plaintiffs (those whose IIM accounts have been mismanaged and unaccounted for) is $1.4 bn 5:56 PM Dec 8th from web
  18. #cobell litigation on Individual Indian Monies accounts settled. Headline figure is $3 bn+ but that's misleading. 5:54 PM Dec 8th from web
  19. @robreich :more coverage, this time more skeptical, from Stan Katz in the Chronicle: http://tinyurl.com/yadgsn7 5:46 AM Dec 8th from web
  20. @dandrezner : clouds are the perfect enemy; she can see them from her house! 6:47 PM Dec 7th from web